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" For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.... "
American Practitioner and News - Página 419
1898
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American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette, Volumen4

1858 - 656 páginas
...literature for some time to come; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all ho has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in tho plainest...
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The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two ...

John Ruskin - 1860 - 138 páginas
...literature for some time to come ; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. And though I often hear moral people complaining of the bad effects of want of thought,...
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Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious : Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 páginas
...literature for some time to come; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of...
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The Value of Physical Science in the Work of Education: An Address Delivered ...

William Henry Green - 1865 - 484 páginas
...Concord, and listen to his terse, sententious utterances. You will always remember what Ruskin said : " Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...or his reader will certainly misunderstand them." Moreover, let the Bible be studied by him who seeks to acquire a good style of composition — not...
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Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 páginas
...literature for some time to come; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent disciplin'e for an author...way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of...
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Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious, Volumen1

John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 páginas
...literature for some time to come ; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of...
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Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 páginas
...literature for some time to come ; and then, .perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of...
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Nature, Volumen49

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 944 páginas
...student of science this diffuse method of expounding facts is distasteful. As Ruskin has remarked, " A downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else." The chapter on " The ' Heat Wave' of 1892 " furnishes an example of what can be done...
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The American Practitioner: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volumen22

1880 - 412 páginas
...Physician to the Skin Department,. Demilt Dispensary, New York. THE AMERICAN PRACTITIONER. SEPTEMBER, 1880. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he most say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in...
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The Medical World, Volumen31

1913 - 576 páginas
...if request and postage for return are received with manuscript; but we cannot agree to always do so. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to lay in the finest potsible words, or his reader if sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible...
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