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" How Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail... "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 907
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1886
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Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments ...

Edward Henry Knight - 1884 - 1096 pages
...PATENT OFFICE. llllustratrD uutt) more tljan фггг ttwusauD fngratomgg. 'How Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail." POPE. First Steam Engine. (Вио, ISO BC) BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. HEW YORK: 11 EAST...
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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries with Answers in All Departments of ..., Volume 2

1885 - 580 pages
...Manchester, NH 6. Can any of your readers give me the source of the couplet : " Index- learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." HC BOLTON. c. How came Firenze to be transformed into Florence, and Livorno into Leghorn, in geographical...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Biographies. Criticisms. Later collected essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 560 pages
...studied, and whose languages he seems perfectly to have 1 Query, from Pope's " How index -learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." See ' Dunciad,' bk. i., 11. 279-80, Elwin and Courthorpe's edition, 1882. —En. 2 By Dr. John Ward,...
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The Book Fancier: Or, The Romance of Book Collecting

Percy Fitzgerald - 1886 - 330 pages
...There have been some prodigies of this sort of navvy-work in our day — • " How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." Fuller quaintly says, " Without an index a large author is but a labyrinth, without a clue to direct...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life

James Boswell - 1887 - 470 pages
...using the term ' index-scholar] was referring no doubt to Pope's lines : — ' How Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.' Dunciad, i. 279. APPENDIX H. (Notes on Boswelfs note on pages 421-422.) ' The last lines of the inscription on this...
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Science, Volume 12

John Michels (Journalist) - 1888 - 352 pages
...text-book, and never will be. It is not for us, then, here to-day, to try " How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail ; " but, on the contrary, to remark that from this index-learning, from these histories of science...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 34

1889 - 922 pages
...indexed in any text-book, and never will be. It is not for us, then, here to-day, to try — •' How index-learning tarns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail " ; but, on the contrary, to remark that from this index-learning, from these histories of science...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 34

1889 - 900 pages
...text-book, and never will be. It is not for us, then, here to-day, to try — " How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail " ; but, on the contrary, to remark that from this index-learning, from these histories of science...
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Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs: Authors ...

1891 - 556 pages
...cause of ill, We may be independent if we will. Churchill, INDEX. LEARNING OP. How index-learning turns no student pale Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. Pope. VALUE OP AN. Get a thorough Insight into the index by which the whole book is governed and turned...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1891 - 548 pages
...the term ' index-scholar,' was referring no doubt to Pope's lines : — ' How Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.' The Dunciad, i. 279. APPENDIX H. (Notes on Boswell's note on pages 485, 486.) 1 The last lines of the...
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