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...ave him, and to supply the place which she was quitting. With a clear con- science, and a heart inexpressibly thankful, I think I can say that I fulfi... ...ks which the Father set him, he had many hours unoccupied, and read in the library, and bewildered his little brains with the great books he found the... ...on, in religion and morals, as well as in the rudiments of the tongues and sciences, the boy took ea- gerly and with gratitude from his tutor. When, t... ...matical studies under his father’s guidance, who was a proficient in those sciences, of which Esmond knew nothing; nor could he write Latin so well as... ...work upon the faith of her young pupil, Esmond’s kind mistress sent to the library of her father the Dean, who had been distinguished in the disputes ... ...he Uni- versity, though he was no member of it, and was the professor of a science scarce recognized in the common course of col- lege education. This... ...s- tant persecutions there, and who came to Cambridge, where he taught the science of the small-sword, and set up a saloon- of-arms. Though he declare...

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... had acquired had left him with the impression that arithmetic was a fluky science and best avoided in practical affairs, but even the absence of book... ...d Mr. Polly had lost much of his natural confidence, so far as figures and sciences and languages and the possibilities of learning things were con- c... ..., wearing a gold pince-nez, and writing for the most part in the beautiful library of the Re- form Club. This gentleman did not know Mr. Polly person-... ...golden pince-nez and writing for the most part in that beautiful room, the library of the Reform Club. There he wrestles with what he calls “social pr...

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...all about that Indian Bible!” ex claimed Laurence. “I have seen it in the library of the Ath enaeum; and the tears came into my eyes to think that t... ... the children a lively concep tion of his character. Over the door of his library were painted 64 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair these words, ... ...d that they were hid 65 Hawthorne den in the corners and crevices of his library, and that they peeped out from among the leaves of many of his book... ...ather, “both in his pulpit and when he kneeled down in the solitude of his library, resting his face on our old chair. But Providence ordered the resu... ...r chair all this time?” asked Clara. “It still remained in Cotton Mather’s library,” replied Grandfather; “and I must not omit to tell you an incident... ...en a colonel in the English army, and was thought to possess vast military science. He came to the council, fol 139 Hawthorne lowed by two or three ...

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...she went on at school. They com- 7 H. G . Wells promised at length on the science course at the Tredgold Women’s College—she had already matriculated... ...ould produce an acceptable friend to accompany her. She passed her general science examination with double honors and specialized in science. She happ... ...ator, Capes Something or other. The kind of man who isn’t content with his science, and writes articles in the monthly reviews. Any- how, there it is:... ...ver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss Miniver, and hurried on, putting out a rhetorical hand ... ...s. From beginning to end it was first-hand stuff. But the influence of the science radiated far beyond its own special field—beyond those beautiful bu... ...book on that subject, but it does not appear to be available in the prison library, and the chaplain seems to regard him as an undesirable writer.” At...

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...lyphics as these, which to every one with the least tincture of ‘the noble science’ indicated that the owner of the castle was of royal Stewart blood,... ...lp us to do his work.’ ‘You!’ said James; ‘but for me—it is like to be the library and the Round Tower again.’ ‘Scarcely,’ said Bedford, ‘the Beaufort... ...olm it seemed as if the truly congenial home was opened. The curriculum of science began to reveal itself to him with all the stages so inviting to a ... ... his true element and study: the deep universal study of the sisterhood of science that the University offered was his veri- table vocation. Surely it... ...poor country hath nothing better than mere monastery schools, and light of science hav- ing once shone on me, I cannot but dwell in her courts for eve...

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...f the other inmates were not reading peo ple, she had uncontrolled use of a library full of books with frontispieces, which she used to climb upon a ... ...frontispiece—she carried it into a mysterious apartment which lay beyond the library and which was called, traditionally, no one knew why, the office. ... ... pace; she listened a little and perceived that some one was mov ing in the library, which communicated with the office. It struck her first as the ste... ...l, getting up to receive the intruder. She directed their course back to the library while the visitor continued to look about her. “You seem to have ... ...assortment of mosaic tables and deco rated ceilings, was unfurnished with a library, and in the way of printed volumes contained nothing but half a d... ... own dinner table. He has elegant tastes— cares for literature, for art, for science, for charming young ladies. The most elegant is his taste for the...

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...umstances, had their lodging. Here sat the Queen; reading,—for she had her library brought hither, though the King refused his; taking vehe- ment coun... ...y babble over, ye may mar, but can by no possibility mend: is not Polity a science he has exhausted? Cool, slow, two military Lameths are visible, wit... .... But, after all, does not this Assignat business speak volumes for modern science? Bankruptcy, we may say, was come, as the end of all Delusions need... ...gainst Dissidents from it: not even to this latter, though almost his con- science rebels, can he say ‘Nay; but, after two months’ hesitating, signs t...

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... never rallied after the blood- letting enjoined by the Countess’s medical science, and her husband, though for some months able to creep about the ho... ...tead of the Humber. The packet contained one of the black stones which the science of the time expected to transmute into gold, also some Esquimaux tr... ...ent peal of bells had been gambled away at a single throw of the dice, the library had been utterly destroyed, the magnificent plate melted up, and wh...

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...DERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 54 SCHLOSSER?S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE ....................................................................................................

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........................... 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHT... ...HE BIBLE THE BIBLE T T T T TO MEREL O MEREL O MEREL O MEREL O MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE Y HUMAN SCIENCE IT ... ...nger from God does not come amongst men for the sake of teaching truths in science, or of correcting errors in science. Most justly is this said: but ... ...gainst them. Even upon errors of a far more important class than errors in science can ever be—superstitions, for instance, that degraded the very ide... ...es (as in the ultimate relations of human nature they are) of merely human science! But, for my part, I go further, and assert, that upon three reason... ...d. Spence’s ‘Polymetis,’ however, might have been had by favor of any good library; and the ‘Bibliotheca’ of Apollodorus, who is the cock of the walk ...

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... and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from... ...cred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science... ...ce swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to ... ...godlike thing; towards which the best attitude for us, after never so much science, is awe, devout prostration and humil- ity of soul; worship if not ... ...hing wholly miraculous, stupendous and di- vine. What we now lecture of as Science, they wondered at, and fell down in awe before, as Religion The dar... ...blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him a... ...nes were fabled to do? They persuade men. Not the wretchedest circulating- library novel, which foolish girls thumb and con in remote villages, but wi...

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... rudest way the commonest ap- pearance which depends upon the laws of that science; as for instance, to represent the effect of two walls standing at ... ...he savage school; as if the deed were perpe- trated by a Polypheme without science, premeditation, or anything but a mutton bone. However, I am chiefl... ... had been for several years deposited, as a rare trea- sure of art, in the library of the club. Even the author’s name, gentlemen, pointed him out as ... ...t painters. But it is pleasing to the mind of sensibility to know that, as science expanded, sounder views were adopted. One author contends for a pit...

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...and nothing comes of it. Why, he spends all his days at the Louvre and the Library, looking at prints and sketching things. He is an idler!” The cousi... ... things that taste assimilates, was entirely want- ing. A doctor of social science would have detected a lover in two or three specimens of costly tru... ...r, forgive, my dear!” “You loathe me!” cried the Baron—the cry of his con- science. For we all know the secret of our own wrong-doing. We almost alway... ...leasures?” said Hortense. “The true physician, madame, is in love with his science,” replied the doctor. “He is sustained by that passion as much as b... ..., and returned with an opinion based on this rapid study. These princes of science were divided in their opinions. One, who stood alone in his views, ...

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...reported, than all the other English bishops put together. He had a separate library in each of his resi dences, and wherever he was residing, so man... ...his object was clearly not selfish. The treatise contains his rules for the library of the new College at Oxford—Durham College (where T rinity Colle... ..., when they were dispersed, some going into Duke Humphrey’s (the University) library, others to Balliol Col lege, and the remainder passing into the... ... the mother house, lists of which have been preserved; and subse quently a library was built there to contain the collection bequeathed in 1345 by R... ... some portion of his books; and, moreover, his biographer says nothing of a library at Oxford. Possibly the scheme was never carried out. In the Brit... ...and Nature His handmaid planted the roots of excellent morals and of famous sciences, but whom the poverty of their circumstances so oppressed that ... ... WISDOM IS CHIEFLY CONTAINED IN BOOKS THE DESIRABLE TREASURE of wisdom and science, which all men desire by an instinct of nature, infinitely surpas... ...the Prologue to his Almagest: He is not dead, he says, who has given life to science. Who therefore will limit by anything of another kind the price o... ...er what is the probable conclusion from this. I say prob able, for in moral science we do not insist upon demonstra tion, remembering that the educ...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft?s house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his ri...

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...ARBARA By BERNARD SHAW ACT I It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft’s house in Wilton Crescent. A large an... ...assumption, and being quite enlightened and liberal as to the books in the library, the pictures on the walls, the music in the portfolios, and the ar... ...o er is not on me mawnd—wot she [indicating Barbara] might call on me con- science—no more than stickin a pig. It’s this Christian game o yours that I... ...e together]. ACT III Next day after lunch Lady Britomart is writing in the library in Wilton Crescent. Sarah is reading in the armchair near the windo...

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...general purposes inaccessible to me. But let us assume that what is called science can harmonize all contradictions and possesses an unchanging standa... ...e spent a certain sum every year. He was collecting, as he said, a serious library, and he made it a rule to read through all the books he bought. He ... ... rapid steps to- ward the door. But at the door she stopped as if her con- science reproached her for having in her joy left the child too soon, and s... ...sement—almost a pastime,” said Pierre. “For in- stance, he is collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book till he has read what ... ... For a reply to these questions the common sense of man- kind turns to the science of history, whose aim is to enable nations and humanity to know the... ...e have been any contradictions. But modern history cannot give that reply. Science does not admit the conception of the ancients as to the direct part... ...have recourse to it at every step. In dealing with humanity’s inquiry, the science of history up to now is like money in circulation—paper money and c...

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... me I was a bad man. I did not understand what was wanted of me by my con- science, and my wife, translating it in her feminine way , made clear to me... ...hem,” he would say mildly. “I have spent all my life in working at natural science and medicine, and I have never had time to take an interest in the ... ... know, that’s awful, Dymov!” “Why so? Your friends don’t know a nything of science or medicine, but you don’t reproach them with it. Every one has his... ...he gave a sob. “He is dying because he sacrificed himself. What a loss for science!” he said bitterly. “Compare him with all of us. He was a great man... ...” Korostelev went on, wring- ing his hands: “Merciful God, he was a man of science; we shall never look on his like again. Osip Dymov, what have you d... ...in the four faculties, in the office, in the rector’s private room, in the library. What does he not know? When in an evil day a rector or dean, for i...

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... in our time there is the knowl- edge of the dead languages and the occult sciences; of cor- rect spelling; of syntax and prosody; of the various form... ...ly no purpose but the most effective presentation of matter with which its science is concerned, will concede so much to the demands of this pecuniary... ...expression. Under the guidance of the later biological and psychologi- cal science, human nature will have to be restated in terms of habit; and in th... ...cians knew by the name of ignava ratio. For the purposes of industry or of science it counts as a blunder in the appre- hension and valuation of facts... ... in order to appropriate and assimilate the more recent generalizations of science which this point of view involves, but they also ordinarily stand i... ...xpenditure; as, for example, the foundation of a university or of a public library or museum; but it is also, and perhaps equally, true of the more co...

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...gic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness, the power of subdu... ...Letters, the Reformation, the discovery of new lands, the open- ing of new sciences and new regions in man. He shall be the priest of Pan, and bring w... ...ready that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, t... ...uni- versal reliance may be grounded? What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star, without parallax, with- out calculable elements, whi... ...be- tween the great men of the first and of the last ages; nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to e... .... It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought. But we come in, and are as far from it as at ... ... friends to him; no vantage ground, no favorable circumstance. He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is a prophet; no s...

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.............................................................................. 703 Chapter XXI Of the Division of the Sciences ............................. ...your lordship; and its having some little corre- spondence with some parts of that nobler and vast sys- tem of the sciences your lordship has made so ... ...The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty de- signs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monu- ... ...h cumbered with the learned but frivolous use of uncouth, affected, or unin- telligible terms, introduced into the sciences, and there made an art of,... ...conversation. Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied 1... ...would be very improper to determine this place, by say- ing, they were in such a part of the earth, or in Bodley’s library: but the right designation ...

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... for, said he, they wound us with our own weapons, and with our own arts and sciences they overcome us. And indeed the Christians were put so to their... ...e two Apollinarii were fain, as a man may say, to coin all the seven liberal sciences out of the Bible, re ducing it into divers forms of orations, p... ...decree, consisting most of practical traditions, to the attainment whereof a library of smaller bulk than his own Dialogues would be abundant. And the... ...human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among us, that writers of go... ...Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to con science, above all liberties. What would be best advised, then, if it be ...