Gilbert : Sir William Schwenk (1836-1911), playwright & humourist, collaborated with Arthur Sullivan (q.v.) in the “Savoy Operas”.
... like to hear a man standing up for his country." 12 (7) From William S. Gilbert: At one big gathering Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1931) had to take down to dinner a somewhat pretentious lady of the newly rich who, knowing nothing of music, posed as one of its patrons. Page 300 "Oh, Mr. Gilbert," said she, "your friend Sullivan's music is really too delightful. It always... always reminds me of dear Batch (meaning Bach). Do tell me, what is Batch doing just now? Is he composing anything?" "Well, no," replied Gilbert, in serious tone; "Batch is by way of decomposing." 13 (8) From O'Leary: John Philpot Curran, the barrister, and Father O'Leary were dining one day with Michael Kelly when the barrister said: "Reverend Father, I wish you were St. Peter." ...
... Example: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) may be regarded as the most notable wit of his generation. His neat retorts and happy sayings earned him a name. One day, after a dinner party, Gilbert was standing in the hall waiting for a friend to join him when a short-sighted old gentleman, mistaking him for one- of the servants, ordered: "Call me a cab!" Gilbert looked him up and down, and... and then quietly observed: "Ah, you're a four-wheeler!" The old gentleman turned on him wrathfully, "How dare you, sir? What do you mean?" "Well," retorted Gilbert, "you asked me to call you a cab -and surely I couldn't call you 'hansom'." 26 (The joke is of course based on the two different significances of the verb 'to call': (i) to demand presence of, and (ii) to name or to describe ...
... according to the American geneticist Walter Gilbert. Today, however, knowing the genome seems, in the words of another American biologist, David Baltimore, the starting point of the post-genomic studies which will reveal to us the foundations of life, and also give us the understanding of our human nature. How to explain such a rapid change?” 34 Walter Gilbert, prominent promoter of the HGP, the human... complete sequence of DNA of an organism and a large enough computer, he could compute the organism. … A similar spirit motivates the claim by yet another major figure in molecular biology, Walter Gilbert, that, when we have the complete sequence of the human genome, ‘we will know what it is to be human’.” 32 Such were the claims and the expectations a decade ago. Richard Dawkins, not to be outdone ...
... William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was a play-writer, also a director of his own plays. When H.M.S. Pinafore was being rehearsed, Gilbert said to Mr. Rutland Barrington, the actor who was enacting the role of the hero, "Cross left on that speech, Barrington, and sit on the skylight over the saloon pensively." The actor did so, but the skylight collapsed completely, upon which Gilbert said: "That's ...
... become too self-conscious, he might have lost all his power, "like the famous centipede who, after too profound an analysis of his own method of locomotion, found that he could no longer walk!" 18 (Gilbert N. Lewis.) But science could not avert for good the day of reckoning. It has at last come face to face with the sphinx of reality, apparently without any chance of solving its riddle. The s... something self-evident and beyond all refutation. And the difficulty is that he cannot afford to change a few concepts without at the same time disturbing a host of others. Thus he is no 18. Gilbert N. Lewis, The Anatomy of Science, p. 1. Page 45 longer dead-sure about what reality really is! 19 In desperation some have altogether denied the existence of any reality ...
... the unpleasant. Speech alone makes known all this. Meditate upon speech." 19 16.G. R. Harrison, What Man May Be, p. 192. 17. Savitri, Bk. VII, Canto II, p. 484. 18.Gilbert N. Lewis, The Anatomy of Science, p. 205. 19. Chhandogya Upanishad, VII, 7, 2. Page 15 The day of all days dawned in man's calendar when he first developed speech as his... took on the lead of the evolutionary march. i) He twinkles and wonders! "A mind looks out from a small casual globe And wonders what itself and all things are. " 21 20.Gilbert N. Lewis, The Anatomy of Science, p. 205. 21. Savitri, Bk. II, Canto V, p. 167. Page 16 In man alone, amongst all earthly creatures, 'the interested curiosity' has given ...
... Gupta, Nolini Kanta 20 Gurdjieff34,35 Haas, William S. 307,316 Hakim, Khalifa A 33 Hardy, Thomas 251,377 Hartmann 33,34 Hegel 30,33 Highet, Gilbert 383,384,411,412,414 Hodgson, Ralph 367 Homer 53-55,265,267,319,320,370,381, 383,384,387,398,399,401 Hopkins, G.M. 75,98,314,368,455 Horu Thakur 45 ... 14-18,20,28, 262, 289, 294,334,338, 416, 420,426,438,458; 459 Mukerjea, S.V. 253 Muller,Max267 . Munshi,K.M.17 Murray, D.L. 5 Murray, Gilbert 55 Murry, Middleton 308, 355,412,414 Myers, F.W.H. 334,436 AWa256,458 Nehru, Jawaharlal 17 Nevinson, Henry 29 Newbolt, Sir Henry 412 Nidhu,Babu45 Nietzsche 30,400 Nir ...
... State, for is he not part of the Government established by law? So we will merely say that the right place for this truly comic Council of Notables with its yet more comic functions is an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan and not an India seething with discontent and convulsed by the throes of an incipient revolution. As to the "enlarged" Legislative Councils, we can say little. Mr. Morley does not enlighten ...
... dactylic rhythm resembling a sort of measured prose recitative— Then he arose from his bed and heard what the people were saying, Joined in the talk at the door with Stephen and Richard and Gilbert, Joined in the morning prayer and in the reading of Scripture. 1 And yet even the accentual (or perhaps one should say the stress) hexameter is capable of better things. Clough, aiming at ...
... deepens, in France there were the Symbolists, then the Surrealists, then Henry Corbin's school of the Imaginal' based on his studies of the Ismaeli poets and mystics; and Gaston Bachelard, and still Gilbert Durand and other followers of this tradition are doing fine work. Unfortunately, so far as I can discover, more in theory than the practice of poetry. I have published in Temenos critical writings ...
... and ideas and a sparkling youthful energy. They immediately made me feel as though we were old friends and that’s the way it remains. General Tewari’s presence evoked in my memory a song from one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous light operas called “The Pirates of Penzance”. The song goes: “I’m the Very Proper Model of a Modern Major General with Information Vegetal and Animal and Mineral. I know the ...
... Sc. and from the eleventh issue he became the editor and soul of it. Several noted authors joined his group. He established Saniranjan Press and Ranjan Publishing House. 23 . Professor Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) was a British scholar and intellectual with connections in many spheres. He authored numerous books and was an outstanding scholar on Ancient Greece. Page 267 ...
... explorers Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, Martin Frobisher, John Davies and John Hawkins; of the philosopher Francis Bacon; of John Dee, the occultist and court astrologer; of the scientists William Gilbert, Thomas Harriot and Walter Warner. These are but a few of the many that became legendary. Elizabeth knew them all, and all of them paid homage to their Sovereign. Not only did they pay homage, ...
... self-conscious, he might have lost all his power of forward movement, "like the famous centipede who, after too profound an analysis of his own method of locomotion, found that he could no longer walk!" (Gilbert N. Lewis, The Anatomy of Science, p. 1) But science could not avert for good the day of reckoning. It has at last come face to face with the sphinx of reality, apparently without any chance ...
... dogmatism of it. In The Uniqueness of Man he has admitted extra-sensory perception as a reality: "Experiments such as those of Rhine and Tyrrell on extra-sensory guessing, experiences like those of Gilbert Murray on thought-transference, and the numerous sporadic records of telepathy and clairvoyance suggest that some people at least possess possibilities of knowledge which are not confined within the ...
... are phenomena of two categories.37 Then Hardy turns to the views of Lord Brain. In his book, Mind, Perception and Science, Lord Brain answers the question: "What have you to say about [Gilbert] Ryle's view? Hasn't he finally demolished 'the ghost in the machine' and with it many other functions you evidently attribute to the mind?" Lord Brain says: "It would take too long to discuss all ...
... Unger Publishing Co., N.Y, 1967. Gadamer, H.G, Truth and Method, Crossroad Publishing Co., New York, 1978. Geddes, P., The Life and Works ofSirJagdish C. Bose, London, 1920. Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Harmondsworth: Penguin books, 1963. Goswami, A., Science Within Consciousness, Research Report, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Sausalito, C.A., 1994. Grant, ...
... people might likewise exclaim: "How entirely Indian!" These can only be one's first reactions. Closer study must reveal whole new universes of meaning—and this is particularly true of Savitri. Gilbert Murray says rightly that, "one cardinal fact about great poetry.. .is that its main value lies in a process, not in a result.. .we do not understand a great poem till we have felt it through and as ...
... can be tried in the Youth Camp. A letter was answered. * * * 21.1.73 Request for admission disposed of. * * * Letter of Auroville Association, Paris. Gilbert Gauche wishes to stay there. They have to consult Andre. Another letter disposed of. A teacher in Aspiration School asks, "Any other role or work?" Shanti also. Mother said, "If they ...
... the Bande Mataram called them "comic opera" reforms, and witheringly pointed out that "the right place for this truly comic Council of Notables with its yet more comic functions is an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan and not an India seething with discontent and convulsed by the throes of an incipient revolution". 37 Sri Aurobindo returned to the theme in later issues and poured ridicule both ...
... Anglo-Indian bureaucrats. Many letters and telegrams were sent back and forth from England to India, between Viscount John Morley, the then Secretary of State for India, and Fourth Earl of Minto, Gilbert Eliot, the then Viceroy of India. Why? A secret report of the Government, laying squarely the blame on Sri Aurobindo, says, "His is the master mind at the back of the whole extremist campaign ...
... even foreseeing: The ages' mighty march begins anew... Now from high heaven descends a wondrous race — 1 The Oxford Professor of Poetry Mr. Mackail's observation cited by Prof. Gilbert Murray in his The Rise of the Greek Epic, Oxford, 1934, pp. 254-55. Page 468 is yet on the whole far too narrow. Sri Aurobindo's cosmic vision is beyond Virgil's grasp ...
... send him your Collected Poems? / think we should be agog (a little at least) to get them confer on you the Nobel Prize this year. Why, I think we should send your poems by next mail to Professor Gilbert Murray also. Qu’en dites-vous? You can send the Poems to the two Murrays. Romain Rolland said before the last war, “I will not rest “ – till the final recognition of Humanity. Let ...
... are or what your name is: if it disagrees with experience, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.” 14 Experimentation became the norm during the birth period of the modern sciences. William Gilbert (1544-1613), in his great book on magnetism De Magnete , was one of the first “to set out clearly in print the essence of the scientific method: the testing of hypotheses by rigorous experiments.” ...
... Homerophile like H. B. Cotterill might deem his own translation of the Odyssey a truer equivalent. But the equivalence goes a very little way in reality. The unstressed long syllable which Professor Gilbert Murray considers one of the characteristics of the ancient hexameter does not get its entire value realised in a strict accentual system. Also, the demand innate to English poetry for diverse modulation ...
... chosen. The globe with the sun-ray symbolises "The Ray of the Supreme Truth". I came across a very interesting article in Auroville Today , Number Five, April 1989: Auroville Yesterday? By Gilbert "Here is the place which belongs to no prince, to no god. No one owns it. Here is the place for all of us... The earth will find joy in it. Here the hearts will be happy." Does this ...
... continues, and this must have been derived from protein." 1 Carbohydrates on their part can be converted into body fat. This was well demonstrated by the classical experiments of Lawes and Gilbert. "Young pigs were fed on a diet of barley containing very little fat, and it was found that the amount of body fat present when the animals were killed was greater than could have been obtained ...
... third edition 1983), pp. 24-33. Page 277 Notes 1. Karl K. Darrow, The Renaissance of Physics (New York: 1936), p. 301. 2. Chorus from The Bacchae of Euripides. Gilbert Murray's translation. A few dates 1889 (November, 14) - Birth of Nehru in Allahabad. 1905 - Goes to England for study in Harrow and Cambridge. ...
... "What we see everywhere is an infinitely variable fundamental 18.Nicolas Bourbaki, L' Architecture des Math é matiques. 19.Andre Weil, L'Avenir des Math é matiques. 20.Gilbert N. Lewis, The Anatomy of Science. Page 89 oneness which seems the very principle of Nature. The basic Force is one, but it manifests from itself innumerable forces; the basic ...
... beyond the first three or four chapters." The piece selected and quoted below centres round the Irish genius Oscar Wilde who became the leader of the "aesthetic craze" during his years at Oxford. Gilbert delightfully ridiculed him by calling Wilde and his followers the "intense", "utterly too too" folk who "lived up" to a blue vase or a sunflower. This is how young Aurobindo is speaking through ...
... there was a religion of which we have glimpses through the Homeric poems² where the Olympian Gods were described, and through the earlier, myths that were prevalent in those ancient times. In Gilbert Murray's' Five Stages of Greek Religion',³ we have a systematic account, and there is also a good account of Greek religion in J.E. Harrison's 'Prolegomena of the Study of Greek Religion’.* The ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, Parts 1-VIII (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry). Haas, William S. The Destiny of the Mind: East and West (Faber 8c Faber, London, 1956). Highet, Gilbert. The Classical Tradition (Oxford University Press, London, 1951). People, Places and Books (Oxford University Press, London, 1953). Page 487 Housman, A.E. The ...
... necessary (for such poetry is the true nectar of mans rebirth in the spirit), is also perpetually unrealisable. The mystic has to express in words experiences that are beyond verbal expression. As Gilbert Highet perceptively says (he is thinking of poets like St John of the Cross, Holderlin, Valery, Donne and T.S. Eliot): These people had a certain experience of life which they found so ...
... to fuse Virgil and Dante, the epic manner of the former and the theological insights of the latter. This meant creating a new style, which is best summed up by the word 'sublime'. Analysing it, Gilbert Highet writes: "It was intended to be grand; to be evocative; and to be sonorous—three different aspects of sublimity, differing only in the means by which sublimity is achieved." 21 The epic casts ...
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