 I would assuredly devote a very large portion of the time of every English child to the careful study of the models of English writing of such varied and wonderful kind as we possess, and, what is still more important and still more neglected, the habit...  Annual Report - Page 801885Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 420 pages
...writers — -I say if he cannot get it out of those writers, he cannot get it out of anything; and I would assuredly devote a very large portion of the...is still more important and still more neglected, the habit of using that language with precision and with force and with art. I fancy we are almost... | |
 | 1883 - 502 pages
...writers — I say if he cannot get it out of those writers, he cannot get it out of anything ; and I would assuredly devote a very large portion of the...is still more important and still more neglected, the habit of using that language with precision and with force and with art. I fancy we are almost... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1883 - 624 pages
...contains, he is careful to define how their study should be approached. ' I would devote,' he says, ' a very large portion of the time of every English...the careful study of the models of English writing, and to what is still more important and still more neglected, to the habit of using that language with... | |
 | 1885 - 198 pages
...— I say, if he cannot get it out of those writers, he cannot get it out of III— 10 anything; and I would assuredly devote a very large portion of the...is still more important and still more neglected, the habit of using that language with precision, and with force, and with art. I fancy we are almost... | |
 | Irène Hardy - 1890 - 182 pages
...[-speaking] child to the careful study of models of English writing of such varied and wonderful kinds as we possess ; and, what is still more important and still more neglected, to the habit of using that language with precision and with force and with art. " I fancy we are almost... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 474 pages
...writers — I say, if he cannot get it out of those writers, he cannot get it out of anything ; and I would assuredly devote a very large portion of the...is still more important and still more neglected, the habit of using that language with precision, with force, and with art. I fancy we are almost the... | |
 | Huxley, Thomas H. - 1898
...writers — I say, if he cannot get it out of those writers, he cannot get it out of anything ; and I would assuredly devote a very large portion of the...is still more important and still more neglected, the habit of using that language with precision, with force, and with art. I fancy we are almost the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 398 pages
...writers — I say, if he cannot get it out of those writers, he cannot get it out of anything; and I would assuredly devote a very large portion of the...careful study of the models of English writing of euch varied and wonderful kind as we possess, and, what is still more important and still more neglected,... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1902 - 278 pages
...highest kind out of his Bible, and Chaucer, and Shakespeare, he cannot get it out of anything, and I would assuredly devote a very large portion of the...time of every English child to the careful study of models of English writing of such varied and wonderful kind as we possess, and, what is still more... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 190 pages
...writers — I say, if he cannot get it out of those writers he cannot get it out of anything ; and I would assuredly devote a very large portion of the...is still more important and still more neglected, the habit of using that language with precision, with force, and with art. I fancy we are almost the... | |
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