"Bradley" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Poetry," says Professor Bradley, "is a way of representing truth; but there is in it, as its detractors have always insisted, a certain untruth or illusion. We need not deny this, so long as we remember that the illusion is conscious, that no one wishes to deceive, and that no one is deceived. But it would be better to say that ...
— The Art of the Story-Teller • Marie L. Shedlock
... vessel was called the Endeavour, and the command of her given to Lieutenant James Cook,[3] a gentleman of undoubted abilities in astronomy and navigation, who was soon after, by the Royal Society, appointed, with Mr Charles Green, a gentleman who had long been assistant to Dr Bradley at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... the Bible, Considered in a Series of Lectures before the Young Men's Christian Association, by Distinguished Clergymen. Boston. Higgins, Bradley, & ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various
... Board of missions. Rev. P. Dougherty, who was indeed a true Christian, and good to Indians, was a preacher for the Mission. Daniel Rod, the half-breed from St. Clair River, Mich., was his interpreter. Mr. Bradley acted as teacher, who afterwards proved himself unworthy for the position, which produced a bad effect among the Indians. The Mission is now out of existence.] This young man, whose name I now learned was ...
— History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan • Andrew J. Blackbird
... of every verse he mimicked an owl's call to the life— having in his young days been a verderer of the New Forest, on the edge of Bradley Plain; and at the end of his third verse, in the middle of a hoot, was answered by a trumpet not far away upon ...
— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch
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