This remarkable book, which has been recommended by bishops to theological students as the best available for many purposes, is the standard exposition of Quakerism, and undoubtedly ranks among the classics of its period.
It seemed then a highly desirable thing to bring these twoclassics together, and Dryden was perfectly competent to do whatever was expected of him.
There are better classics of inquiry, but in the class many worse subjects.
Most certainly there is "impropriety" in some of the classics and "impropriety" in all the Naturalists, but other resemblance I can see none.
One of the most important of the winter religious duties of the lamas is the reading of the sacred classics under the roof of each householder.
Philip regretted all his life that he had not been severely drilled in the classics and mathematics, for he never could become a specialist in anything.
People who devote themselves too severely to study of the classics are apt to become dried up; and you should never do anything to dry up a cow.
I do hope you have not dropped theclassics and gone in for the modern notion of being real and practical.
I don't mean that I taught them to read it, for it is very difficult to teach a cow to read Latin or any of the dead languages,--a cow cares more for her cud than she does for all the classics put together.
In any of its rich private libraries you find yourself in the age of Pope and Dryden, and the classics were pursued in the spirit of Oxford and Cambridge in the time of Johnson.
Some who attain the position of classics are subject to variations in popular and even in scholarly favor or neglect.
She had through translations a sufficient knowledge of the classics to give her the necessary literary background, and her study of Latin had led her into the more useful acquisition of French.
But the reading need not be confined to the classics nor to the master-pieces of literature.
There has been a great deal of discussion whether a boy should be trained in the classics or mathematics or sciences or modern languages.
And this is the reason why psychological studies of the abnormal, or biographies of criminal lunatics, are only interesting to pathologists and never becomeclassics in literature.
And most of them had not only the gift of the imagination necessary to great eloquence, but also were so mentally disciplined by the classics that they handled the practical questions upon which they legislated with clearness and precision.
When the train stops at a station the classics continue, and the studious group attracts the attention of the passengers.
On the other hand, American students rarely study classics long enough to acquire much facility in mastering the literary contents of the ancient writers.
Later on, the ancient classics contribute their share of influence.
It was generally expected throughout the college that the winner would be Bert Knollys, who, without effort, had gained a slight lead in the first two terminals, and whose ability in classics was unquestioned.
As every man in the class knows, he can wipe out all the rest of us in classicswithout half trying.
The tales are classics of a particular kind; they are children's classics, artful adaptations of life and form which grip the imaginations of little folks.
But these classics are, with a few exceptions, the richness of the primary and elementary literature.
It is true that a few classics are well-suited to the child at any age, such as Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Books, and Uncle Remus Tales.
Now, the knowledge of Chinese in its written form has, until quite recently, always been imparted by a painful perusal of the Chinese classics and Chinese books deeply imbued with Confucianism.
He gave lectures on the Chinese classics at Kyoto.
The metre selected is a graceful and dignified one, especially associated with 'Paradise Lost' and other of the foremost classics of English verse.
The East India Company fostered the study of the classics of the extreme Orient; and the first Napoleon opened Egypt,--his savans marched in the centre of the invading squares.
Even classics and standardized fiction are ruthlessly defamed by tawdry presentation.
I can think off-hand of quite a group of writers, each of whom has contributed short-story classics to our literature.
But surely you never picked up a smattering of the classics while sweeping out Middleton's family schoolroom!
Are you aware," inquired the judge, with a little sarcasm in his tone, "that some knowledge of the classics is absolutely necessary to the success of a lawyer?
He is intellectual and his readings of the classics are sane.
His touch is like no other in the world, and his readings of the classics are marked by reverence and authority.
Omission has been made of Aldo's reprints, in order that the attention of the reader might be concentrated on his labours in editing Greek classics from MSS.
Other presses were at work in Italy; and, as the classics issued from Florence, Rome or Milan, Aldo took them up, bestowing in each case fresh industry upon the collation of codices and the correction of texts.
He did not undervalue classics, but he believed that a smattering of classics was of no benefit, and that it caused a waste of time that might be given to subjects of real value.
Provision is made by law for the translation of some of the more promising scholars from the Common to the District Schools, where the classicsand practical mathematics are taught.
In some schools a fine training in classics was given; in others even the elements of a common education were neglected.
I do not ask anyone to give an opinion against Classics as a subject of instruction; although, undoubtedly, if this opinion were prevalent, my principal task would be very much lightened.
In the various new proposals for extending the sphere of scientific knowledge, a much smaller amount of classics is to be required, but neither of the two languages is wholly dispensed with.
Even when in word the supporters of classics put forward the secondary uses, in deed they belie themselves.
They say that, by classics alone, these men are what they are, and if their way had been stopped by serious scientific requirements, they would have never come before the world at all.
At Eton, in his time, the engrossment with classics was such as to keep out religious instruction!
Admission that the teaching of classics needs improvement.
Another objection to replacingclassics by modern languages is the necessity of importing foreigners as teachers.
The first merit of classics is that "they are languages; not particular sciences, nor definite branches of knowledge, but literatures".
I am inclined to believe that he would have sacrificed the classics to scientific completeness; he would have been satisfied with the quantum of these already gained at school.
Footnote 52: double-first: any candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Oxford University who takes first-class honors in both classics and mathematics is said to have won a double-first.
Many of his critics have expressed regret that he did not make for himself an artificial seclusion, and continue his purely poetical labours, with the classics for companions.
These schools differ chiefly in the amount of classics they offer, the Gymnasium laying stress upon the classics and the Realschule upon the realities.
Madame de Warens, a young widow with whom he lived for some years, sent him to school at St. Lazare, where he studied the classics and music; but he soon lapsed again into vagabondage.
The classics never were studied with more attention and devotion, were never imitated with more taste.
That he is considered as one of the best riflemen and horsemen in his country, we cannot esteem as of much importance in a bishop; but he studies also the classics and translates the Iliad for his own pleasure.
To it is annexed a list of all the different editions of the Classics published in Poland.
A series of new translations of the Classics in their original measures has recently been prepared; in which a Bohemian version of the Iliad by J.
It became the chief object of other eminent men, to make their countrymen acquainted with the classics in a Bohemian dress; and to improve the language by a strict imitation of Latin and Greek forms.
Thus the treasures of the classics and of the Italian middle ages became familiar to the noble youths of Ragusa, until, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, poetry began to appear in a national dress.
I prohibit girls from any allusion to the classics until they have taken their degree and are warranted not to open the wrong doors.
With champagne in the heads of the men, and classics in the heads of the women, we shall come; to something," remarked Lady Gosstre half to herself and Georgiana near her.
Though he gave closer attention to hisclassics he did not drop his general reading; and it was a landmark in his career when at the age of sixteen he made acquaintance with Gibbon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "classics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: classic; letters; literature; pornography
