 A man who has been brought up among books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very indifferent companion, and what we call a pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1881841Full view - About this book
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 pages
...When he has liberty to choose. r JOSEPH ADDISON [1672-1719]. From ' The Spectator,' No. 105 [1711]. A MAN who has been brought up among books, and is...indifferent companion, and what we call a Pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the title, and give it every one that does not know how to think out of... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...views, When he has liberty to choose. JOSEPH ADDISON [1672-1719]. From ' The Spectator,' No. 105 [1711]. A MAN who has been brought up among books, and is...indifferent companion, and what we call a Pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the title, and give it every one that does not know how to think out of... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...Lodgings, I could not forbear throwing together such Reflections as occurred to me upon that Subject A Man who has been brought up among Books, and is...able to talk of nothing else, is a very indifferent Conv panion, and what we call a Pedant But, methinks, we should enlarge the Title, and give it every... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...Lodgings, I could not forbear throwing together sucn Reflections as occurred to me upon that Subject A- Man who has been brought up among Books, and is...able to talk of nothing else, is a very indifferent Com/ panion, and what we call a Pedant But, methinks, we should enlarge the Title, and give it every... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - English essays - 1898 - 428 pages
...lodgings, I could not forbear throwing together such reflections as occurred to me upon that subject. /"A man who has been brought up among books, /and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very indifl^ferent companion, and what we call a pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the title, and... | |
 | Charles Augustus Whittuck - Conduct of life in literature - 1901 - 292 pages
...protest against one - sidedness under the form of pedantry. " A man who has been brought up amongst books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very...indifferent companion, and what we call a pedant. But methinks we should enlarge the title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Education - Education - 1902 - 674 pages
...of commercial education. They would endorse the view of the writer in Addition's S'pcctutor that " a man who has been brought up among books and is able...else, is a very indifferent companion, and what we should call a pedant. But we should enlarge the title and give it to every one that does not know how... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 476 pages
...lodgings, I could not forbear throwing together such reflections as occurred to me upon that subject. A man who has been brought up among books, and is...indifferent companion, and what we call a pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the title, and give it every one that does not know how to think out of... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 470 pages
...lodgings, I could not forbear throwing together such reflections as occurred to me upon that subject. A man who has been brought up among books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very indiffer- | ent companion, and what we call a pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the title, and... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - English language - 1903 - 340 pages
...the women sighed over them, and whispered, " Alas ! they are all going to death ! " 16. But methinks we should enlarge the title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think outside of profession and particular way of life. 17. But whomsoever the son of Tydeus drew near and... | |
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