"At first hand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that whoever has to shake a gate-post to convince himself that it is not a vision is dangerously near madness. Mad people do such things; those who carry on the work of the world as useful and law-abiding citizens do not. I may add that I myself had the privilege of hearing at first hand the narrator's own account of this incident, which was much emphasized by his gestures and tones. Wordsworth's unexpected sally was in reply to a timid question by the late Professor Bonamy Price, then a young ...
— Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) • Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster
... answered. "The faculty thinks we should see the situation at first hand. Then we will have a better ...
— Be It Ever Thus • Robert Moore Williams
... Church only to trouble it; and it was not without very great difficulty that they succeeded in forming a national clergy. To the Celts, on the contrary, Christianity did not come from Rome; they had their native clergy, their own peculiar usages, their faith at first hand. It cannot, in fact, be doubted that in apostolic times Christianity was preached in Brittany; and several historians, not without justification, have considered that it was borne there by Judaistic Christians, or by disciples of the school of St. ...
— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various
... the volume, "An Ugly Reminiscence of Childhood," "Mother's Hands," and "One Day" betray the same contempt for romantic standards, the same capacity for making acquaintance with life at first hand. The first-named is an account of a murder and execution, and extremely painful. The second is a bit of pathological psychology a propos of intemperance. Tastes imprisoned, genius cramped and perverted, joy of life (joie de vivre) denied, will ...
— Essays on Scandinavian Literature • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... that such outlines of the methods of contemporary workers, such glimpses of the personalities of living celebrities, might form a fitting conclusion to this record of progress. There is a stimulus in contact with great men at first hand that is scarcely to be gained in like degree in any other way. So I have thought that those who have not been privileged to visit the great teachers in person might like to meet some of them at second hand. ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams
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