 For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them....  The Medical World - Page 571913Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 656 pages
...for some time to come; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all ho has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in tho plainest... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 138 pages
...some time to come ; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that...downright facts at present more than anything else. And though I often hear moral people complaining of the bad effects of want of thought, for my part,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 pages
...for some time to come; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that...downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we have... | |
 | William Henry Green - 1865 - 484 pages
...listen to his terse, sententious utterances. You will always remember what Ruskin said : " Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that...or his reader will certainly misunderstand them." Moreover, let the Bible be studied by him who seeks to acquire a good style of composition — not... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 pages
...for some time to come; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent disciplin'e for an author to feel that...downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we have... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 pages
...some time to come ; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that...downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we have... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 pages
...some time to come ; and then, .perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that...downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we have... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 944 pages
...student of science this diffuse method of expounding facts is distasteful. As Ruskin has remarked, " A downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and...downright facts at present more than anything else." The chapter on " The ' Heat Wave' of 1892 " furnishes an example of what can be done in the way of... | |
 | 1880 - 412 pages
...in Diarrhea 254 ..... .., i-. : ' . . i .'., I THE AMERICAN PRACTITIONER. JULY, 1880. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that...in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainty misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 140 pages
...recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he mast say all he has to say in the fewest possible, words,...downright facts at present more than anything else. And though I often hear moral people complaining of the bad effects of want of thought, for my part,... | |
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