Ground Setting

Famous quotes containing the words ground and/or setting:

    Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
    Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)