| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...harangue to go into our closet and shut the door. But, when it has been shut long enough, we remember that where there is so much smoke, there must be some fire ; with so much talk about virtue and freedom must be mingled some desire for them ; that it cannot... | |
| Lewis Gaylord Clark - American literature - 1855 - 722 pages
...Mohawk reviewers, as John Davis called the then critics of our city, thought, with the old saying, that " where there is so much smoke, there must be some fire." But it is no longer questionable, that our Castalian font was often dry, and when otherwise, its stream... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...Mohawk reviewers, as John Davis called the then critics of our city, thought, witli the old saying, that " where there is so much smoke, there must be some fire." But it is no lo.iger questionable, that our Castalian font was often dry, and when otherwise, its stream... | |
| Charles Benjamin Huntington, James T. Roberts - Insanity - 1857 - 502 pages
...or expressed any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused? A. I have come to the opinion that where there is so much smoke there must be some fire ; that is, that where there are so many pieces of forged paper, he may have had something to do with... | |
| Dentistry - 1860 - 648 pages
...profit by their credulity and if these unreflective believers think at all, it is evident they conclude "that where there is so much smoke — there must be some fire." Yet in order that the reader may understand the sense in which these terms are used, the definition... | |
| Wilder Dwight - United States - 1868 - 374 pages
...was very vigorous in that direction. Proverbs are said to be the condensed wisdom of ages. I recalled that, ' Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire,' and cheerfully hung on to the maxim through the day ; but I felt very little fire. Then the question... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 622 pages
...deliver themselves of epigrammatic sarcasms. The public get bewildered with a dreamy sort of notion, that where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. All this comes out of, not free inquiry, be it remembered, but free inquiry by persons who have solemnly... | |
| Wilder Dwight - Massachusetts - 1868 - 376 pages
...was very vigorous in that direction. Proverbs are said to be the condensed wisdom of ages. I recalled that, ' Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire,' and cheerfully hung on to the maxim through the day; but I felt very little fire. Then the question... | |
| Samuel Minton - 1869 - 328 pages
...may be of invaluable service to those who are apt to be frightened by bold assertion, and to suppose that where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. It will be of special use in reading Mr. Grant's book. PLATO AND THE NEW TESTAMENT. ' WE have brought... | |
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