"Unreachable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... position it does not now concern us to discuss, but at least it is in singular discrepancy with her strong habitual preference for accurate and quantitative knowledge, over vague and misty moods in the region of the unknowable and the unreachable. ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) - The Life of George Eliot • John Morley
... are dependent on some of the native princes or on the British Government; but de facto they are perfectly independent. Their castles are built on high rocks, and besides the natural difficulty of entering them, their possessors are made doubly unreachable by the fact that long secret passages exist in every such castle, known only to the present owner and confided to his heir only at his death. We have visited two such underground halls, one of them big enough to ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
... old days it led to actual idolatry, bowing down before these calm, unreachable brightnesses. In our days it too often leads to forgetting God altogether, and not seldom to disbelief that man can be of any account in such a universe. We are told that the notions of a covenant, a redemption, or that God ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren |
