Major Channel Number

Famous quotes containing the words major, channel and/or number:

“There are three major offenses against filial piety of which not producing an heir is the worst.”
—Chinese proverb.

Mencius.

“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)