 | 1859 - 620 דפים
...his family, in playing his part as director of a bank or a railway, he is very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire ; so little,...Latin quotation, or alludes to some Greek myth, it is less to throw light on the topic in hand than for the sake of effect. If we inquire what is the real... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 דפים
...his family, in playing his part as director of a bank or a railway, he is very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire ; so little,...Latin quotation, or alludes to some Greek myth, it is less to throw light on the topic in hand than for the sake of efl'ect. If we inquire what is the real... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1882 - 784 דפים
...his family, in playing his part as director of a bank or a railway, he is very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire — so...Latin quotation, or alludes to some Greek myth, it is less to throw light on the topic in hand than for the sake of effect." The merchant, the trader, the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1884 - 130 דפים
...his family, in playing his part as director of a bank or a railway, he is very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire — so...Latin quotation, or alludes to some Greek myth, it is less to throw light on the topic in hand than for the sake of effect. If we inquire what is the real... | |
 | 1885 - 278 דפים
...bank or a railway, he is very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire—so little that generally the greater part of it drops...memory; and if he occasionally vents a Latin quotation, cr alludes to some Greek myth, it is less to throw light on the topic in hand than for the sake of... | |
 | Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene - 1889 - 158 דפים
...his family, in playing his part as a director of a bank or a railway, he is very little aided by the knowledge he took so many years to acquire — so little, that generally the greater part drops out of his memory; and if he occasionally vents a Latin quotation or alludes to a Greek myth,... | |
 | Montague Richard Leverson - 1893 - 138 דפים
...After showing how the Latin and Greek learned in youth "drops out of the student's memory," he says: "And if he occasionally vents a Latin quotation or alludes to some Greek myth, it is less to throw light on the topic in hand than for the sake of effect. If we inquire what is the real... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 462 דפים
...his family, in playing his part as director of a bank or a railway, he is very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire,— so...Latin quotation or alludes to some Greek myth, it is less to throw light on the topic in hand than for the sake of effect. If we inquire what is the real... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 452 דפים
...his family, in playing his part as director of a bank or a railway, he is very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire, — so...Latin quotation or alludes to some Greek myth, it is less to throw light on the topic in hand than for the sake of effect. If we inquire what is the real... | |
 | 1904 - 1136 דפים
...estate or his family, in playing his part as director of a bank or a railway, is " little aided by the knowledge he took so many years to acquire — so...generally the greater part of it drops out of his memory." The question dealt with by Mr. Crane is a very important one, and, as he points out, a great deal has... | |
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... cases out of ten, applies his Latin and Greek to no practical purposes. The remark is trite that in his shop, or his office, in managing his estate or his family, in playing his part as director of a bank or a railway, he is very little aided by this... 
