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Category Archive: 1854

Joseph Jacobs Quote: “The truth is, my folk-lore friends…”

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.

October 24, 2021 1854, August 29, Australian, Joseph Jacobs, Quotes by Historians

Arthur Rimbaud Quote: “Only divine love bestows the keys…”

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

October 20, 2021 1854, Arthur Rimbaud, French, October 20, Quotes by Poets

Benjamin Tucker Quote: “The essence of government is control…”

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

September 25, 2021 1854, American, April 17, Benjamin Tucker, Quotes by Activists

Benjamin Tucker Quote: “Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats….”

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

September 25, 2021 1854, American, April 17, Benjamin Tucker, Quotes by Activists

Arthur Rimbaud Quote: “But, truly, I have wept too…”

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

September 8, 2021 1854, Arthur Rimbaud, French, October 20, Quotes by Poets

Albert Bushnell Hart Quote: “From William of Orange to William…”

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

August 27, 2021 1854, Albert Bushnell Hart, American, July 1, Quotes by Historians

Joseph Jacobs Quote: “In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox…”

In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of ‘Cinderella’ and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country.

August 19, 2021 1854, August 29, Australian, Joseph Jacobs, Quotes by Historians

Joseph Jacobs Quote: “Children, and sometimes those of larger…”

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

August 10, 2021 1854, August 29, Australian, Joseph Jacobs, Quotes by Historians

Joseph Jacobs Quote: “I have come to the conclusion…”

I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.

July 25, 2021 1854, August 29, Australian, Joseph Jacobs, Quotes by Historians

Benjamin Tucker Quote: “Such security is equal liberty. But…”

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

July 18, 2021 1854, American, April 17, Benjamin Tucker, Quotes by Activists

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