Whether from my taste for the "humanities" or not, I am unable to say, but certainly in my then humour, I should not have exchanged my position for one of much greater pretensions to elegance and ton.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
It is worth seeing the vigour and Dante-like precision with which he characterises the social type peculiar to each of these humanities, immured within its own circle, growing ever nobler and richer, happier and better balanced.
"Underground Man"
Gabriel Tarde
On anything that could be related to the humanities he's very slow, but in the physical sciences he's out of this world.
"The Short Life"
Francis Donovan