"Discernable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bluff," a flighty eminence on the Blue Ridge Mountains, stands a most singular formation of rock, known as 'Washington's Face'; and which, to a casualist void of imaginative powers, is easily recognized if pointed out by a guide; but to a close observer, however, with common discernable perception, it presents at first sight a most striking and correct resemblance of the great original. From midway the bridge which crosses the Potomac, the countenance and contour of the face to me, appeared ...
— Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 • Various
... William Temple in his Memoirs, page 295, and the aforesaid Vindicater of the Stage, as well as my self, have observed, that the Absolver in the first Volume of his Essays, page 120, in his Chapter of the A... tells us, Whether the honesty or dishonesty are discernable in the face, is a question which admits of dispute; King Charles the Second thought he could depend upon these Observations, but with submission, I believe an instance might be given, in which his Rules of Physiognomy fail'd [Footnote: Essays, p.120.]. Now I'm sure the ...
— Essays on the Stage • Thomas D'Urfey and Bossuet
... Fire, but not Boyl; then take a quantity of Wheat-ears, as you think your use shall require, and cut the straw about a foot long besides the Ears, and from the Ear Lime the straw Six inches; the warmer it is, the less discernable it will be: Then to the Field adjacent, carrying a bag of Chaff, and thresh'd Ears, scatter them twenty Yards wide, and stick the lim'd Ears (declining downwards) here, and there; Then traverse the Fields, disturb their Haunts, they ...
— The School of Recreation (1684 edition) • Robert Howlett
... the eager haste to be rich. No higher pursuit will be recognised than the pursuit of gold—no attainment deemed so desirable as the attainment of wealth. While the great man of every circle is the rich man, in the common mind wealth becomes the synonyme of greatness. No condition is discernable superior to that which money confers; no loftier idea of manhood is entertained than that which embraces the ...
— Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing • T. S. Arthur
... was not your sense) under the notion of the vile caracters, which is almost cipher without a key: besides that commonly the ink and paper do so throughly incorporate, that the letters are hardly discernable. It is possible the Scots may take their money, if the other will pay it; but if upon that consideration they leave the Kingdom, or suffer the King to leave them, I will no more pretend to divination. Let not those apprehensions startle you nor be troubled ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle |
