Descent Method

Famous quotes containing the words descent and/or method:

    “Genealogy. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “You that do search for every purling spring
    Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flows,
    And every flower, not sweet perhaps, which grows
    Near thereabouts into your poesy wring;
    You that do dictionary’s method bring
    Into your rhymes, running in rattling rows;”
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)