| Arthur Milnes Marshall - Evolution - 1894 - 286 pages
...leaving at the age of sixteen. " Nothing could have been worse," he says, "for the development of iny mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly...as a means of education to me was simply a blank." Yet, not incapable of appreciation, he writes : " The sole pleasure I ever received from such studies... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1894 - 392 pages
...years till 1825, Darwin's success was small. " The school as a means of education to me," he says, " as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history, was simply a blank." And then he adds, " During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 pages
...approved schoolboy fashion. And the result, as it appeared to his mature judgment, was simply negative. " The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." (I. p. 32.) On the other hand, the extraneous chemical exercises, which the head master treated so... | |
| Science - 1888 - 900 pages
...physiologists have, I believe, proved about each thought requiring quite an appreciable amount of time. Nothing could have been worse for the development...means- of education to me was simply a blank. During my wholo life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid... | |
| 1897 - 284 pages
...PAGET. JOHN HUNTER LONG CALDERWOOD. 1728-1748. " I believe that I was in many ways a naughty boy. . . . The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." — DARWIN. WE who write this series of the " Masters or Medicine " must address all readers, and set... | |
| Stephen Paget - Physicians - 1897 - 308 pages
...PAGET. JOHN HUNTER LONG CALDERWOOD. 1728-1748. " I believe that I was in many ways a naughty boy. . . . The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank."—DARWIN. WE who write this series of the "Masters or Medicine " must address all readers,... | |
| John Lord - History - 1902 - 528 pages
...opinion in later life that nothing could have been worse for the development of his mind than this school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught except a little ancient biography and history. During his whole life he was singularly incapable of mastering any language.... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1904 - 808 pages
...to his throne in the parlor. — BRACE, CHARLES LORING, 1872, Letters, p. 320. In the summer of 1818 I went to Dr. Butler's great school in Shrewsbury,...paid to verse-making, and this I could never do well When I left the school I was for my age neither high nor low in it; and I believe that I was considered... | |
| Angelo Mosso - Fatigue - 1904 - 366 pages
...interesting information regarding his mental faculties and his mode of work. In his Autobiography he says : " The school as a means of education to me was simply...been singularly incapable of mastering any language." l " I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit, which is so remarkable in some clever men. I... | |
| Angelo Mosso - Attention - 1904 - 394 pages
...interesting information regarding his mental faculties and his mode of work. In his Autobiography he says : " The school as a means of education to me was simply...been singularly incapable of mastering any language." 1 " I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit, which is so remarkable in some clever men. I... | |
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