 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pagina’s
...brief. The ark should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading ; and he should learn, as they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very little compass. 3. EXTRACTS FROM THE " LETTERS OP PETER PLYMLEY." % I confess, it mortifies me to the very quick to... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - 478 pagina’s
...should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading; and he should learn, a« they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very little compass. * From a review of Characters of the late Charles James Fox, by Philopatris Vurvicensis (Dr. Purr).... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1869 - 36 pagina’s
...brief. The ark should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading ; and he should learn, as they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very little compass." I can fancy an intelligent boy putting the case to himself in this way : — " I am asked to learn... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pagina’s
...brief. The ark should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading ; and he should learn, as they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very little compass." Applying these remarks to our own country, it may be said that the discovery of America was a great... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1870 - 842 pagina’s
...brief. The ark should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading ; and he should learn, as they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very little compass. Philopatris must not only condense what he says into a narrower compass, but he must say it in a more... | |
 | 1875 - 774 pagina’s
...brief. The ark should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading; and he should learn, as they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into very a little space." To reconcile brevity with clearness is another canon. These canons the editor... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1877 - 626 pagina’s
...brief. The ark should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading ; and he should learn, as they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very little compass. Philopatris must not only condense what he says in a narrower compass, but he must say it in a more... | |
 | Franklin Fiske Heard - 1881 - 212 pagina’s
...brief. The ark should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading; and he should learn, as they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very little space." 1 He says, " to cite verses standeth well with the gravitie of our lawyers." , IT has been... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pagina’s
...brief. The ark should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading ; and he should learn, as they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very small compass. — SYDNEY SMITH. De Quincey calls the Gorman sentence an arch between the rising and... | |
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... for his use. He should gaze at Noah, and be brief. The ark should constantly remind him of the little time there is left for reading; and he should learn, as they did in the ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very little compass. 
