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Page 101 - A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery, From the Time of the Greeks to the Present Time.
Page 47 - It is a literary masterpiece, as readable as a novel, remarkable for its compression without dryness, and its brilliancy without any rhetorical effort or display. What American could, with so broad a grasp and so perfect a style, have rehearsed our political history from Columbus to Grant in 300 duodecimo pages of open type, or would have manifested greater candor in his judgment of men and events in a period of four centuries? It is enough to say that no one before Mr. Smith has attempted the feat,...
Page 117 - LOGIC. ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN LOGIC; Deductive and Inductive, with copious Questions and Examples, and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms. By W. STANLEY JEVONS, MA, Professor of Political Economy in University College, London. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3*. 6d. " Nothing can be better for a school-book. "-^-GUARDIAN. "A manual alike simple, interesting, and scientific."— ATHHN/UJH.
Page 61 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 60 - ... of the human heart, the chances and changes that have overtaken human ideals of virtue and happiness, of conduct and manners, and the shifting fortunes of great conceptions of truth and virtue. Poets, dramatists, humorists, satirists, masters of fiction, the great preachers, the character-writers, the maxim-writers, the great political orators— they are all literature in so far as they teach us to know man and to know human nature. This is what makes literature, rightly sifted and selected...
Page 58 - Not only one of the ablest analyses and portrayals of the Chinese character, but on the whole one of the most judicial. Twenty-two years' residence among the people, with command of their language, has enabled Mr. Smith to see them as they are."— The Nation. " A completely trustworthy study.