E. B. Osborn

E. B. Osborn Edward Bolland Osborn (1867–1938) was a British journalist, author and editor. He is perhaps best known as the editor of The Muse in Arms, an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917. Quotes ... the Klondike, Yukon Klondike discoveries, rich and romantic and utterly unexpected as they were, have given the North-West a world-wide advertisement of inestimable value. And this is an age of advertisement.Public opinion about such discoveries always passes through two stages—a period of universal credulity, followed by a period of universal incredulity. Greater Canada: The Past, Present and Future of the Canadian North-west Chatto & Windus 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=TBg1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2 2 The spirit of the work of Hippocrates and his disciples, perhaps the noblest manifestation of the Greek concept of man's duty to man, is expressed in the "Hippocratic Oath" ...If Hippocrates had done nothing more in his laborious life-time than formulate this ideal of the good physician's duty to suffering humanity, he would yet be among our greatest benefactors. Our Debt to Greece and Rome Hodder and Stoughton's People's library Hodder and Stoughton London 1924 60–61 1st part of quote 2nd part of quote last part of quote Athens became the capital of Mediterranean Sea#Ancient civilisations Mediterranean civilisation, the clearing-house of religions and moral ideas, whatever their source. The Heritage of Greece and the Legacy of Rome Doran's Modern Readers' Bookshelf George H. Doran Company 1925 https://books.google.com/books?id=1BzPAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=clearing-house 83 In an age when the worst of sinners implicitly accepted the teaching of the Catholic Church Church, what we now regard as "honest doubt" was universally looked on as a sort of leprosy of the soul, a monstrous and highly infectious plague. The heretic was a germ-carrier to be ruthlessly routed out; the more virtuous his life, the more conspicuous his zeal for truth-seeking, the greater the danger of his example to the community. So the philosopher, who was not a theological first and last was apt to fall into bad odor with the conservative churchmen such as Peter Damian, who distrusted the study of logic and protested against any attempt to understand the mysteries of the Faith. Anselm of Canterbury Anselm, however, who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, thought that heresy must be fought by its own weapons, and he sought with much success the "necessary reasons" underlying the tenets of the Church concerning the nature of God the Creator and His relations with his creatures. The Middle Ages Doran's Modern Readers' Bookshelf Garden City, New York Doubleday, Doran & Company 1928 https://books.google.com/books?id=usUYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27 27 Literature and Life (1921) ... Where fresh water and salt water mingle, two gulls are busy feeding. They run to and fro, taking little steps with their wings ups, bobbing quaintly and curtsying low. If Phyllis Bedells, who's bright and innocent beauty has something bird-like in it, wants a Gull's Dance, she should come to these shining sands to learn it. There goes a sandpiper on the point all the way, light and elusive—what a mistress of technique! The choregraphy of sea-beaches is as yet unexplored; it is quite beyond the sultry, land-locked imagination of Russian ballet Russian dancers. Literature and Life: Things Seen, Heard and Read London Methuen & Company Ltd 1921 Chapter III. Cornish Pictures 16–20 https://books.google.com/books?id=LNVCAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA16 (quote from p. 16) ... On several occasions I have seen a cuckoo mobbed by small birds, and it would be pleasant to think it was done as a protest on the part of decent bird-society against a disgusting anti-social parasite. But the probability is that they mistake the cuckoo for a hawk. Chapter XV. The Cuckoo Puzzle, pp. 86–90, quote from p. 89 There is no greater literary sin than the omission of an Index, and, if I had my way, even novels would be provided with charts of this kind to their multifarious contents—how convenient it wold be for readers, as well as reviewers, to have such a handy means of checking the emotions of May Sinclair Miss May Sinclair's quick-change heroines and the involved relationships, business and otherwise, or Mr. Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga Forsytes, who increase in number and variety with each successive installment of his epic of property! Chapter XVI. Humours of Indexing, pp. 91–95, quote from p. 91 Whenever a Card game card-game, or, for that matter, any indoor diversion, becomes too serious and scientific for the average mind it soon ceases to be fashionable. Whenever the professional cuts in, the man-of-the-word cuts off—to seek some new diversion which does not require its votaries to study a shelf-full of text-books. Chapter XVIII. New Card-Games, pp. 96–105, quote from p. 97 ... Married people are in a position to make the closest study of one another's predilections, yet it is well known that many a marriage has been marred, or even unmade, by incompatibility of Christmas gift Christmas presents. Chapter XXII. Christmas Presents, pp. 142–150, quote from p. 142 External links External links https://librivox.org/author/9971?primary_key=9971&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha Edward Bollan Osborn LibriVox Category:1867 births Category:1938 deaths Category:Journalists from England Category:Authors from England Category:Editors from England Category:University of Oxford alumni