"Individualise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... resolution, that if he were to make a figure of Charon, he would give him bandy legs, because watermen are generally bandy-legged. It is very well to talk of the abstract idea of a man or of a God, but if you come to anything like an intelligible proposition, you must either individualise and define, or destroy the very idea you contemplate. Sir Joshua goes into this question at considerable ...
— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt |
