I was very far from thinking of the granddaughter of the old scholar for whom I interceded.
I know, I know," the oldscholar answered with a smile of superiority.
He longed to pose as a man in Dion's presence, and as this could not be, he strove to maintain the semblance of independence by yielding his resolve only on the plea of not desiring to injure the aged scholar and his granddaughter.
I care as little for the aged scholar as I do for his legion of commentaries and books, though they are not wholly unfamiliar to me.
Sally had the valedictory, or whatever it is to which the first scholar in the class is entitled.
I am not versed in such matters, not having been concerned, at my graduation, with the duties or the privileges of the first scholar of the class.
I have always observed that the most learned people, that is, those who have read the most Latin, write the worst; and that distinguishes the Latin of gentleman scholar from that of a pedant.
Rann Kennedy was a scholar and man of letters, several of whose sons rose to distinction.
Matthews, Berlin, 1887), Joseph Kimhi attacks the philological work of the greatest French Talmud scholar of that day, R.
The speaker fancifully considers this an appropriate spot in which to bury the scholar whose passionate eagerness of thought chafed continually against the bounds of custom and ignorance and human weakness.
I know, Sir Thomas, that Englishmen feel to Scotchmen very much as a scholar does to Latin--however well he knows it, it is not his mother tongue.
He is doing good work there, Lady Mary, for he is the most famous Oriental and Hebrew scholar in England.
An accomplished Catholic scholar [1513] sums up that "from about the middle of the twelfth century the whole secular and religious literature of Europe grew more and more hostile to the papacy and the curia.
The Athenian faith, as a Catholic scholar remarks, [643] "was more disposed to suffer the buffooneries of a comedian than the serious negation of a philosopher.
But a clerical scholar pronounces that "Aristophanes was the most unreasoning laudator temporis acti.
He, the most distinguished Dutch scholar and the chief apologist of Christianity in his day, had to seek refuge, on his escape from prison, in Catholic France, whose king granted him a pension.
Always he figures as a scholar and a man of science.
Theodor Keim comes nearest a far- off glimpse of that eminent service of any New Testament scholar I know.
Had the scholar touched at all upon the subject of battles, or of deeds of martial gallantry, it is possible that he might again have enticed de Claverlok to give ear.
Before we came to yonder table I had disquieting news from the scholar from Bannockburn way.
Aye--well mayst thou say so, sir knight," agreed the scholar in a sympathetic tone.
That is to say, the scholarargued and Sir Richard listened and denied.
Tis a most interesting and thrilling tale," the scholar observed when the young knight had finished his narrative.
He is an exceedingly amiable man, and a fine scholar whose society is improving in a high degree.
A few weeks since Malcolm made his début as a scholar at the white school house of Dr.
And since there was no good scholar in his own kingdom, he sent for Werefrith bishop of Worcester out of Mercia, who by command of the king rendered into the English tongue the books of Gregory’s Dialogues.
Of his acquirements as a scholar it is indeed difficult to speak in terms of sufficient commendation.
We engaged to meet for this reading at Catulle Mendes's house, in the artistic lodging of that great scholar and his exquisite wife who was also a most talented and real poet.
He has taken no prominent part in politics, but is widely known as a scholarand philanthropist.
He should not be a rapt scholar absorbed in his own research, nor on the other hand a spiritless, lifeless, or flippant clerk.
You have noticed that an eminent Greek scholar from England has been lecturing at Amherst.
And the responsibility should include not merely a zeal for the general reader, but a regard for the scholar: since a benefit to the general reader may end with himself, but a benefit to the scholar becomes amplified and diffused through him.
There is preserved in the Bodleian a scrap of paper which an angry scholar affixed to the door of the library in 1806 when he found it closed contrary to the statutes.
But the time has come when the obligation to the scholar should resume its due place--in our programs, as well as in our practice.
Charles was a nervous, frail youth, but unlike most children of genius, he was a scholar and won brilliant honours at school.
He was not much of a classical scholar and soon he was apprenticed to an apothecary at Grimstad, the very name of which evokes a vision of gloominess.
It is, at best, the sign of an imperfect fame, implying rather the imitation of a scholar than the independent position of a master.
Indeed, every profound scholar knows that sound learning can be attained only by this method, and the study of Nature makes no exception to the rule.
After years upon years of hard work, an Arabian scholar frankly avowed to me that he had but skimmed the surface of the depths of the Arabic language.
Arabic, which he could write as well as read--an unusual thing, and marking him for a scholar in his country.
You are a scholar and can speak to her in tender words such as are best suited to win the heart of a maiden.
He was no soldier, but skilled in all manual labor, and, moreover, a scholar and a scribe.
Indeed, by force of magnetism A Russian poem's mechanism My scholarwithout aptitude At this time almost understood.
As a scholar he displayed no remarkable amount of capacity, but was fond of general reading and much given to versification.
The names of the six members-to-be were posted on the Totem Pole which was placed at the entrance to the gymnasium where every scholar going in or coming out could read the notice.
Miss Miller worried herself ill over the loss, not so much because of the value of the chest but because it proved there was a dishonest scholar in that school!
A scholar and a philologist himself, he seems to have devoted a large portion of his life to the study of Borrow—following in Lavengro’s footsteps from one country to another with unflagging enthusiasm.
Then I brought out my gipsy story, and accepted its success rather ungratefully, remembering how the greatest gipsy scholar in the world had failed in this line.
In the death of Lord de Tabley, the English world of letters has lost a true poet and a scholar of very varied accomplishments.
And now I was the head scholar in the rhetoric school, whereat I swelled with conceit.
I was not hard to be persuaded, having a desire to see that famous scholar and physician, Dr.
It was that of the scholar to the master, of the son to the father, of the poor in culture to the rich in culture.
A distinguished French scholar thought that he heard in this an echo of Anacreon's ode [Greek: k' eus koren].
He was a poet, a scholar of no mean attainments, and the author of a universal geography in twelve volumes.
