 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 - Side 4191898Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1858 - 656 sider
...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 138 sider
...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,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 sider
...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... | |
 | William Henry Green - 1865 - 484 sider
...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... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 sider
...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 sider
...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... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 sider
...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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 944 sider
...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... | |
 | 1880 - 412 sider
...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... | |
 | 1913 - 576 sider
...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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