This was especially gratifying and stimulating to Douglas, who remarked to a fellow-student that for the wealth of a continent he would not have had his "mother die without hearing that intelligence of her son's progress.
But anatomical details and mechanical formulae, necessary to the serious student of flight, would have been entirely out of place here, and they have been omitted.
Though most severely practical, and designed for the serious student alone, even the beginner will find interest in the description of these several plumages, and much else beside that it is essential to know.
A diligent studentof Chinese life and manners, she soon took up the difficult study of literary Chinese, and also accepted the position of honorary librarian of the library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
I believe that this is the first time that English translations of Chinese poetry have been made by a student of Chinese and a poet working together.
A cousin of Lever, Mr Harry Innes, declares that it was through his good offices the young medical student succeeded in obtaining "the appointment, such as it was.
He had been a student at Trinity College, but as he belonged to the proscribed faith he was debarred from taking a scholarship.
On my way homeward I was met by a student with whom I had become acquainted the day before at the table d'hote.
From Vienna the young student proceeded, early in 1829, to Weimar, and at the Academy he made the acquaintance of Goethe.
The student must become perfectly familiar with the calculations relating to gases.
The student must refer to works on theoretical and physical chemistry for a description of the elements and methods of thermochemistry, into the details of which it is impossible to enter in this work.
The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert.
On the appointed day she sent to his office a relative, a student of law, to receive his opinion.
Every student should listen to this great singer and profit by his art.
The tender melancholy sentiment of the music reflects the influence of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Oniegin; but by way of contrast there are some lively scenes from German student life.
Dimitri of Rostov, who was also a student at Kiev, composed a series of Mystery Plays with rhymed verse.
The writer seems to be a student of "classic" form.
Interested in every school activity, from baseball to debating, he won for himself a prominent place in the student body.
How fortunate that he was a hard workingstudent and passed that examination, otherwise America today would be without General Pershing.
So excellent, however, were his examination papers that the poor Missouri boy was readily accepted and soon became a student in this great Military Academy.
Though a good student he could neither recite well nor speak pieces, as he was afraid even of his own voice.
That he had always been an energetic student was shown by his success in passing the United States Civil Service examination which he took at the age of twenty-five.
The cause was, as he, poor father, had heard afterwards, that she had suffered a young student to kiss her, and so the pure virginity of her soul was lost.
Fool that I was, I might have had my little daughter still, for though she only allowed the student to kiss her, yet by that one kiss the pure mirror of her soul was dimmed, and before the angels of God she was henceforth unholy.
And the student of history must recognise with equal candour that the new Christianity, which succeeded Paganism in the fourth and fifth centuries, was equally powerless to abolish warfare.
In the eyes of the careful student a hundred lines of circumstance and development have led to this war.
The speculator lost his money, the playgoer did not see his "star," and the student heard no masterpieces.
It is the same with the studentof Shakespeare; the oftener he has read one of the poet's plays, and the more study he has given to it, the longer he hesitates to criticize.
We hear much from the superficial student about the "board being hung up chalked with the words, 'This is a wood,' when the action of the play took place in a forest.
On the occasions of his absence the service was generally taken by a student or a lay preacher from some place in the vicinity.
Donald recognised him as a law student whose field of labour was in society, and who went by the name of Dickey Deane.
And it is quite worth the while of any student of Norman history to walk over the ground, Wace in hand, taking in the graphic description of the honest rhymer, as clear and accurate as usual in his topographical details.
To the student of the twelfth century Mayenne is full of memories; to the student of earlier times its chief attraction will be that it is the most natural point of the journey to Jublains.
He travelled always as a student of history and of architecture, and probably no man has ever so happily combined the knowledge of both.
There was an old student too who bore somewhat the same appearance, and seemed privileged to remain for ever a student.
My methods were, of course, well known to the real undergraduates who aided me to the best of their ability; but on this occasion one student in the front row nearly gave me away.
Architecture, with drawings of a monument to a naval victory, after which I became a full studentfor a study made from the antique.
He is a keen student of facial expression, and like the late W.
The time was approaching, however, when the art student had to consider how he could best live by painting.
In his case the rust seemed to have spread to his clothes, so that I can remember the peg on which he hung his coat was left severely alone, in fact, no other student would permit of his hat or coat being near it.
Then I found her ladyship, although considerably advanced in years, was still a student of drawing, for she produced the cast of a head and was getting ready to copy it.
My father was a very keen student of archaeology; and I think he must have known the history of every building in London inside and out!
What remains to be seen concerning Italy is—what were the details that mainly occupied the foreigner as student there.
In Germany, moreover, according to Moryson, the tenancy of a house often carried with it the obligation to board and lodge a student free.
The relentless student of mental pathology is very likely to insist that even this was egoism standing on its head and not on its feet, choosing to be noticed for an absurdity, rather than not be noticed at all.
But then Hobbes's account of the true meaning of sovereignty was so clear, firm, and comprehensive, as easily to lead any fairly perspicuous student who followed him, to apply it to the true meaning of law.
The second part of them may interest the student of political history by its account of the working of the institutions of the little republic.
Now, what should be desiderated for the student is, not to love melody less, but improvement more.
Conceivably, of course, he might have learned that language during his student days in Jerusalem.
The student should be made to appreciate the practical problem of a missionary in a new city.
Student life, for example, is full of temptations to dishonesty.
If the study of the Bible is stupid, the fault lies not in the subject matter, but in the student or in the teacher.
The historical imagination is a very important faculty in the student of the New Testament.
If, therefore, the Judaism of the first century is to be understood, the student must have in mind at least a bare outline of the history between the Testaments.
The student should be made to appreciate the remarkable liberality and informality of the synagogue customs.
At the age of fourteen, he went to Manila, and became a student at the Jesuit college of San José.
When I was a boy at the art school I watched an older student late returned from Paris, with a wonder that had no understanding in it.
The student of physics or of natural science can work under Helmholz and others; the student of music can secure Joachim or Clara Schumann, or the student of art, Knaus, or Richter.
Duplicate Memoranda are forwarded, one copy being retained by each student and the other filled out and forwarded to the office at Plainfield, N.
An average of forty minutes’ reading each week-day will enable the student in nine months to complete the books required for the year.
To a student of Goethe, Schiller, Wieland and Herder, no spot offers more pleasure than the quiet, old streets and groves and houses of Weimar.
To the student there is in this book a fund of information extremely interesting, particularly at this time when the popular will is likely to compel farther legislation.
While he has always been a close and devoted student of the law, Mr. Paine has yet found time for general reading, and has hung for many an hour over the pages of the English classics with keen delight.
But he was too much occupied by his own thoughts (the thoughts of course of a student of philosophy!
The young student of Mining was a favourite with the Judge also because, besides his extraordinary knowledge, he behaved always with the greatest respect towards older and more experienced persons.
One week of constant attention to obeying Nature's demands in eating will so impress its usefulness on the student of Epicureanism that an accidental act of forced swallowing will be a shock to the sensibility.
The moment a student of every-day philosophy starts the study of problems from the A.
I am now relating the experiences of a student of hygienic epicureanism and am not considering money economy alone.
