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Página 69 - A man is led by some feeling of kinship for what is greater than himself to devote his life to the interpretation of a poet, philosopher, or historian, to the elucidation of the language itself on its purely linguistic side, or to that of the art or institutions of antiquity. Such a man will freely give himself up to the most arid and laborious investigations. No erasure in a manuscript, no half-read scholium, no fragmentary inscription will seem unworthy of his attention; no grammatical nicety or...
Página 55 - Pronouns must agree with the Nouns to which they refer in gender, number, and...
Página 46 - I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the...
Página 21 - ... will be equipped with a proper set of reference books, eg, a standard dictionary (etymological), a reference atlas with index, various historical books, including a handbook of European history, a biographical dictionary, a dictionary of dates, and one or more of the comprehensive year-books now issued by various publishers.
Página 70 - Burnet pointed out long ago,1 is a thing of slow growth; it implies ripe knowledge and a trained judgement — which are not the usual attributes of the newly fledged graduate.
Página 4 - I submit to you, gentlemen, that man is the crown of the visible creation, and that studies upon man — studies in the largest sense of humanity, studies conversant with his nature, his works, his duties, and his destinies — are the highest of all studies.
Página 43 - I venture to make this communication to you in the hope that means may be found for bringing science and industry into closer relation with each other than at present obtains in this countrv.-I am, fta, „ JogEpH WHITWORTH" To the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, MP...
Página 44 - Their object is, in fact, to prepare boys to learn their trade, more particularly the trades whose mastery implies a considerable amount of scientific and technical knowledge as well as of manual dexterity.
Página 67 - A man who has been taught the origin of the legend of Aeneas will not read Virgil in later life; a man who has been taught to write hexameters will