 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. Generally,...  American Practitioner and News - Page 1451908Full view - About this book
 | Bibliography, National - 1858 - 656 pages
...literature 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 - 1856 - 488 pages
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 | John Ruskin - Art - 1860 - 138 pages
...literature for some time to come ; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. And though I often hear moral people complaining... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 pages
...literature for some time to come; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or... | |
 | William Henry Green - Chemistry - 1865 - 484 pages
...Concord, and listen to his terse, sententious utterances. You will always remember what Ruskin said : " Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...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 - English essays - 1866 - 374 pages
...literature 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...downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 pages
...literature for some time to come ; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 pages
...literature for some time to come ; and then, .perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 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 we want downright facts at present more than anything else." The chapter on " The ' Heat Wave' of 1892 " furnishes... | |
 | 1880 - 412 pages
...Physician to the Skin Department,. Demilt Dispensary, New York. THE AMERICAN PRACTITIONER. SEPTEMBER, 1880. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he most say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in... | |
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