...dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horsenervousness, ass-stubbornness and camel-malice — with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the...posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive. Whatever he talked of, his talk never failed to impress those who conversed...

...dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horsenervousness, ass-stubbornness and camel-malice — with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the...posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive. Whatever he talked of, his talk never failed to impress those who conversed...

...away amongst the lower instincts of man. " Men, my dear," he once wrote to Mrs. Kingdon Clifford, " are very queer animals — a mixture of horse nervousness,...about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset." The commonest form, perhaps, of those shadowy recollections which, according to Wordsworth, link us...

...still much of the brute nature in himself to be eliminated. Even Professor Huxley can tell us that "men are very queer animals, a mixture of horse nervousness,...posset, and when they can do exactly as they please they are very hard to drive." \ There is, therefore, still plenty of room in the world for such ideas...

...still much of the brute nature in himself to be eliminated. Even Professor Huxley can tell us that "men are very queer animals, a mixture of horse nervousness,...posset, and when they can do exactly as they please they are very hard to drive." } There is, therefore, still plenty of room in the world for such ideas...

...described men as very queer animals, a mixture of horse-nervousness, ass-stubbornness and camel-malice — with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the...posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive. With this description the Florentine would have been in perfect agreement...

...going?" cried Huxley. "No, yer honner, but anny way I'm driving fast!" A phrase In a letter to Mr. Clifford dashes out a quaint comment upon human nature....and In a very Interesting description Sir Spencer Walpole remarks on that manifestation of his powers. Huxley, he says, "could always put his fluger...

...and affection in his nature. " Men, my dear," he said in one of his delightful letters to a friend, " are very queer animals, a mixture of horse nervousness,...do exactly as they please are very hard to drive." Some, I think, have seen only the " ass stubbornness " and " camel malice " in Thomas Henry Huxley,...

...civic life; with all his pugnacity there was a strain of great tenderness and affection in his nature. of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel...do exactly as they please are very hard to drive." Some, I think, have seen only the " ass stubbornness " and " camel malice " in Thomas Henry Huxley,...

...dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse-nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malice — with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the...posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive. — TH Huxley There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists,...