 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 pages
...large auditory, consisting of co-ordinate members, of whom the far greater number is not versed in law. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches on assertion which it calls conclusion.' Here the Chancellor interposed again by moving that the council-chamber... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 pages
...am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress ; I know alsothat error is in its nature flippant and compendious ;...fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and' perches on assertion which it calls conclusion.' Here the Chancellor interposed again by moving that the council-chamber... | |
 | Henry Fishwick - 1875 - 524 pages
...Spinning Machinery contained in a recent number of the " Edinburgh Review." By RICHARD GUEST. " Error hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofs and...perches upon assertion which it calls conclusion." — CURRAN. Manchester : Printed by Henry Smith, St. Ann's Square ; sold by E. Thompson and Sons, Market... | |
 | Henry Fishwick - English literature - 1875 - 466 pages
...Spinning Machinery contained in a recent number of the " Edinburgh Review." By RICHARD GUEST. " Error hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofs and...perches upon assertion which it calls conclusion." — CURRAN. Manchester : Printed by Henry Smith, St. Ann's Square ; sold by E. Thompson and Sons, Market... | |
 | Rosa Mulholland Gilbert - Archivists - 1905 - 502 pages
...motto of the book was as follows : — " Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress : error is in its nature flippant and compendious ;...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. "JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN, " Master of the Rolls of Ireland!' In his preface " the Archivist " writes —... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...extent of its corruptions. — StillingfleeL Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress. s the only cure of a morbid temper. — Bultaer. Curran. Truth will be uppermost, one time or the other, like cork, though kept down in the water.—... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...extent of its corruption». — Stillingfleet. Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress. ud laughter is the characteristic of folly a argumente, and perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion. — Curran. Truth will be uppermost,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1846 - 810 pages
...to Cnrran's memorable picture of error : " Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress : error is in its nature flippant and compendious; it...perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion." Mr. Harrison's work, on the contrary, is marked by patient research, a temperate style, and modest... | |
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I address, or benefit to those on whose behalf I have the honour to be heard. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and... 
