Baron Cunningham of Felling

Famous quotes containing the words baron, cunningham and/or felling:

    The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.
    Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield, Or Baron Pass (1859–1947)

    A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
    A wind that follows fast
    And fills the white and rustling sail
    And bends the gallant mast;
    —Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)

    ... though it is by no means requisite that the American women should emulate the men in the pursuit of the whale, the felling of the forest, or the shooting of wild turkeys, they might, with advantage, be taught in early youth to excel in the race, to hit a mark, to swim, and in short to use every exercise which could impart vigor to their frames and independence to their minds.
    Frances Wright (1795–1852)