Abner Read/sea and Shore Duty 1848-1860

Famous quotes containing the words read, sea, shore and/or duty:

    “Did you know, Putnam, that more murders are committed at 92 Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once. Lower temperatures, people are easygoing. Over 92, it’s too hot to move. But just 92, people get irritable.”
    —Harry Essex (b. 1910)

    “Through the hollow globe, a ring
    of frayed rusty scrapiron,
    is it the sea that shines?
    Is it a road at the world’s edge?”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world.... He is power, passion, self-will personified.”
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    “‘Intellectualism’ is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.”
    —William James (1842–1910)