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Knight for an hour
Nekrasov N.A.
Phraseologism: Knight for an hour.
Meaning: About a weak-willed person who lives by noble impulses, but is not capable of a long struggle (book).
Origin: Title of the poem (1863) by N. A. Nekrasov (1821-1877). It is based on another, well-known phrase - "Caliph for an hour."
Random phraseology:
Struggle for existence.
Meaning:
Fight for life.
Origin:
From English: Struggle for life. The phrase became widely known after the publication (1859) of the sensational historical work "On the Origin of Species" by the English naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882). Its full title is: "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Species in the Struggle for Existence." But Darwin is more of a popularizer than an author of this expression. In a historical sketch with which he begins his work, as well as in a letter (1857) to the American botanist Aza Gray, he himself names those who introduced this phrase into scientific circulation before him - scientists A. de Candol, W. Herbert, C. Lyle , Ch.-U. Wells. But even earlier, the scientist G. Malthus used this phrase in his "Experiment on the Foundations of Population" (1798). And before him, in 1710, the famous German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) spoke about "the struggle of all kinds of creatures claiming to exist" in his work "Theodicy". |
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