The London student, Issues 1-51868 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 30
Page 10
... exists , but so far as the actual state of knowledge permitted , has made some approach towards perfection . " - British Quarterly Review . The Comprehensive English Dictionary ; Explanatory , Pro- nouncing , and Etymological . Above ...
... exists , but so far as the actual state of knowledge permitted , has made some approach towards perfection . " - British Quarterly Review . The Comprehensive English Dictionary ; Explanatory , Pro- nouncing , and Etymological . Above ...
Page 4
... exist , or do not exist in any great quantity . Such artificial prizes for learning do not enter into the original plan of a university , and it is a question how far it was wise to introduce them . Most universities consist not of ...
... exist , or do not exist in any great quantity . Such artificial prizes for learning do not enter into the original plan of a university , and it is a question how far it was wise to introduce them . Most universities consist not of ...
Page 9
... exist , where learned men are assembled together , there is an intellectual centre to which the youth of the country may well resort for instruction and en- lightenment . A seat of learning without students is an ex- travagant waste of ...
... exist , where learned men are assembled together , there is an intellectual centre to which the youth of the country may well resort for instruction and en- lightenment . A seat of learning without students is an ex- travagant waste of ...
Page 10
... exist solely for them , and if will or capacity be wanting in the students , it is no part of the function of a university to supply the one with motives or the other with extraordinary helps . Nevertheless a university may , if it ...
... exist solely for them , and if will or capacity be wanting in the students , it is no part of the function of a university to supply the one with motives or the other with extraordinary helps . Nevertheless a university may , if it ...
Page 11
... exist in so many of our large towns might , I believe , be raised by a gradual pro cess into universities . They begin with a library , and some- times a museum ; next they add popular lectures : now they have only to take one step ...
... exist in so many of our large towns might , I believe , be raised by a gradual pro cess into universities . They begin with a library , and some- times a museum ; next they add popular lectures : now they have only to take one step ...
Common terms and phrases
anatomy Annales Maximi Antheridia Archegonium Aristophanes arranged artistic atelier authority Bagehot body boys Burlington Street Chemistry CHURCHILL and SONS classical cloth Coloured Plates course Crown 8vo degree dissection Ditto doubt Dublin Ehrenberg Elementary England English English language Engravings Euclid examination experience fact favour fcap French German give grammar Greek Illustrations instruction interest JOHN CHURCHILL Junius knowledge labour language Latin learning lectures lesson LONDON STUDENT London Student Advertiser London University Manual master mathematics means mediæval ment method metre Microscope mind modern Nachet's nature never object opinion perhaps philosophy poem poet practical Pre-Raphaelitism present principle prizes Professor pupils question Rochea scholar Second Edition Smith sonnet teachers teaching things THOMAS CARLYLE thought tion translation treatise tutors University College University of London vols words
Popular passages
Page 111 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Page 111 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 196 - Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love. O, if Jove's will Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate Foretell my hopeless doom, in some grove nigh ; 10 As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief, yet hadst no reason why.
Page 5 - Magazine. THE HANDBOOK OF ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, and ACOUSTICS. New Edition. Edited by GEO. CAREY FOSTER, BA, FCS With 400 Illustrations. Post 8vo, 5^. cloth. " The book could not have been entrusted to any one better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid style of Lardner, while correcting his errors and bringing up his work to the present state of scientific knowledge.
Page 29 - It lies in heaven, across the flood Of ether, as a bridge. Beneath, the tides of day and night With flame and darkness ridge The void, as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.
Page 9 - Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament : Being an Attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts ; including a Concordance to the Proper Names, with Indexes, GreekEnglish and English-Greek.
Page 21 - HODGSON -MYTHOLOGY FOR LATIN VERSIFICATION. A brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, prepared to be rendered into Latin Verse for Schools.
Page 191 - Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body, exhibiting their Origin, Divisions, and Connexions, with their Distribution to the various Regions of the Cutaneous Surface, and to all the Muscles. By WILLIAM H.
Page 11 - OPERA, Edited by JM MARSHALL, MA Fellow and late Lecturer of Brasenose College, Oxford ; one of the Masters in Clifton College.
Page 6 - Things: Fire — Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress — The Moon — Common Things : the Earth — The Electric Telegraph — Terrestrial Heat — The Sun — Earthquakes and Volcanoes — Barometer, Safety Lamp, and Whitworth's Micrometric Apparatus — Steam— The Steam Engine— The Eye— The Atmosphere— Time — Common Things...