“... movement was so readily received in villages such as Chaura and Dumri. As long ago as 1858, Henry Meredith Parker, poet and member of the Bengal civil service, noted, in a pamphlet addressed to the British Government, what seems to be an instance of non-co-operation: I feel persuaded that a few years of the English party government would be very likely ...”

“... is in the early 20th century that the hymn of social or political concern becomes prominent, with Henry Scott Holland’s ‘Judge eternal, throned in splendour’, G.K. Chesterton’s ‘O God of earth and altar’ and Athelstan Riley’s ‘Turn back, O man’. It is curious, in a way, that these expressions of engagement with modern issues should be ...”

“... car for Scotland Yard during the General Strike. By 1919, a departmental committee chaired by Sir Henry ‘Play up! play up! and play the game!’ Newbolt had been appointed by the Board of Education to report on ‘The Teaching of English in England’. The name of its game was later pithily reinforced by one of its members, George Sampson: ‘Deny to ...”

“... an array of particles, with the air round Sebastopol during a ferocious bombardment. He also read Henry Buckle’s History of Civilisation in England, ‘a bumptious book, but not mere brainspinning’, which offered a neat model of the application of statistical methods to history. Maxwell decided to ‘abstain from asking the molecules where they last ...”

“... There is a deliberate symmetry in the titles of Browne’s two volumes, Voyaging (1995) and The Power of Place, meant to convey equality in the balance of influence between the Beagle and Down House. There is also an innovative symmetry to the attention Browne pays to the pre- and post-Origin parts of Darwin’s life and works. The narrative of Darwin’s ...”

“... quite a few non-Jewish adherents. The Sultan, fearing that Sabbatai might be trying to usurp his power, had him arrested and incarcerated in the Dardanelles, first in the notorious Bagno prison, then in more comfortable quarters. There, Jews from all over flocked to pay homage to him. However, a rabbi from Poland who spent several days discussing and arguing ...”

“... sorts: the rag-and-bone shop and the rag-and-bone picker were Victorian commonplaces. The earnest Henry Mayhew wrote that ‘the state of the shoes of the rag-and-bone picker is a very important matter to him’; Mrs Gaskell placed ‘rag-and-bone warehouses’ next to those other urban emporia of recycling, pawn-brokers’ shops; and almost sixty years ...”

“... saint tried to assert their diminished, but still considerable, baraka, or embodied spiritual power. This was followed by the influential Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (1977). Here the truth-speaking credentials of the anthropologist were laid on the table, and the purpose of ethnographic engagement was said to be – following Paul Ricoeur – the ...”

“... subject to the lacerating and corrupting impulsions of the struggle to achieve and maintain power. (Perhaps its only equal in this regard is The Charterhouse of Parma. Stendhal, of course, had a comic gift that the David author lacks, but, on the other hand, the biblical story produces tragic resonances that are beyond Stendhal.) Let me add that in ...”

“... of the ungodly. The termination of the Major-Generals’ rule cost the radicals both their power and their protection. If Cromwell’s anger was one cause of the setting up of the Major-Generals, panic and despair were others. In December 1653, when the dying days of Barebone’s Parliament had threatened anarchy, he had clutched at the new Protectoral ...”

“... limits and dangers of biographical speculation: ‘That Shakespeare has written with his utmost power on the subject of jealousy, is no proof that he had ever felt it.’ Go down that road, Steevens warned, and you’ll end up believing that the creator of Timon of Athens had to have been ‘a wretch deserted by his friends’, and that the author of The ...”

“... interpreted as providential signs and portents.Such wonders were staged to flaunt royal or papal power, or to enhance mystery plays and mock battles. Art harmonised with science, and big names got involved. Michelangelo is said to have designed firework displays and, according to Vasari, Leonardo built a walking, roaring lion that disgorged fiery birds and ...”

“... figure whose ideas shaped the politics of Asian exclusion was the American political economist Henry George, a firm critic of monopoly capital. (Ironically, his work later inspired Sun Yat-sen, the first leader of the Kuomintang.) In 1869 he published an essay on ‘The Chinese in California’. The split between labour and capital, George wrote, was a ...”

“... I always did whenever I read biographies. Because of course they all die. Thomas Alva Edison. Henry Ford. Benjamin Franklin. Marie Curie. Florence Nightingale. Winston Churchill. Louis Armstrong. Theodore Roosevelt.’‘You read Theodore Roosevelt’s biography when you were a kid?’‘I did, yes. There was a series. About twenty of them, I suppose. One ...”

“... in the psychiatric and legal literature, and it is interesting that modern psychiatrists such as Henry Rollin take the view that M’Naghten would now have been deemed schizophrenic. The English writings, up to Henry Maudsley and beyond, and the French writings, especially those of the celebrated J.E. Esquirol on ...”