 | 1883 - 612 pages
...who gains the highest honours at college, and as regarded as a perfect miracle 'by the professors, finds himself shrink into absolute insignificance...else to command respect or regard but a talent for formulas. The duties of a naval officer are essentially practical ; his life is passed in providing... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1889 - 470 pages
...established in a place which is presumed to be a preparation for the world ; and the head of a public school, who is a perfect miracle to his contemporaries,...else to command respect or regard, but a talent for Jugjtive poetry in a dead language. — [ER EXCLUSIVE CULTURE OF LANGUAGES.— The passion for languages... | |
 | 1861 - 806 pages
...established iu a place which is presumed to be a preparation for the world; and the head of a public school, who is a perfect miracle to his contemporaries,...regard, but a talent for fugitive poetry in a dead lanpuape.—-iS«/<My Smith. ' Has been only one year and & half at the College, t lias been only one... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - 1991 - 828 pages
...it necessary to defend the classical education of the young against Locke and others who say that it "cultivates the imagination a great deal too much,...and other habits of mind a great deal too little." He ventures to doubt that the study of classical authors is always an imaginative enterprise and claims... | |
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... often make no figure in the world; and why other lads, who are passed over without notice, turn out to be valuable, important men. The test established in the world, is widely different from that established in a place which is presumed to be a preparation... 
