"Supplantation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all frost, and all snow Be to you three Lords of London on a row! Read my supplantation, and my suit ye shall know, Even for God's sake above, and ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley
... a consequence of superior cunning; supplantation of the native in New Zealand, by the European rat; common, said to be polygamous; numerical proportion of the ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real, education, as you no doubt observed at Oxford, destroys, by supplantation, every mind that is not strong enough to see through the imposture and to use the great Masters of Arts as what they really are and no more: that is, patentees of highly questionable methods of thinking, and manufacturers of highly questionable, and for the majority but half ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw |
