English and Engineering: A Volume of Essays for English Classes in Engineering SchoolsFrank Aydelotte McGraw-Hill book Company, Incorporated, 1923 - 415 páginas |
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Página v
... better its original purpose . That purpose is : ( 1 ) To teach the student to write not by telling him how , not by doing his thinking for him , but by stimulating him to think for himself about his own problems , about his work and its ...
... better its original purpose . That purpose is : ( 1 ) To teach the student to write not by telling him how , not by doing his thinking for him , but by stimulating him to think for himself about his own problems , about his work and its ...
Página vii
... better in writing and speaking and of broadening their outlook on life two aims which , in my opinion , can best be realized together . I have not hesitated to adopt ideas wherever I could find them and it is impossible for me in many ...
... better in writing and speaking and of broadening their outlook on life two aims which , in my opinion , can best be realized together . I have not hesitated to adopt ideas wherever I could find them and it is impossible for me in many ...
Página xiv
... better engineer . The engineer must deal with men as well as with machines . He must be able to think and to express himself in terms that other men will understand . He must be able to marshal and to arrange his thoughts about ...
... better engineer . The engineer must deal with men as well as with machines . He must be able to think and to express himself in terms that other men will understand . He must be able to marshal and to arrange his thoughts about ...
Página xvi
... better together than separately - and with that double aim in view this collection has been made . The outline and arrangement of the book are dic- tated by the aims which have just been explained . The first section is an attempt to ...
... better together than separately - and with that double aim in view this collection has been made . The outline and arrangement of the book are dic- tated by the aims which have just been explained . The first section is an attempt to ...
Página 7
... the character . For , after all , the blunt man is blunt , and the awkward man is awkward , and these characteristics are defects . The demeanor merely 99 expresses them . The two men would be better if THE QUESTION OF STYLE 7.
... the character . For , after all , the blunt man is blunt , and the awkward man is awkward , and these characteristics are defects . The demeanor merely 99 expresses them . The two men would be better if THE QUESTION OF STYLE 7.
Términos y frases comunes
Archytas Bacon beauty become better Bucanier called character Civil Engineers civilization code of ethics College Committee culture effect electric engineering English epoch essay expression fact feel Frederic Harrison friends give grammar Greek heart honor human Huxley ideas industrial intellectual interest John Ruskin Josiah Mason kind labor language learned literary literature lives man's mankind manufacture material matter means ment mind modern natural knowledge never noble opinion perhaps persons philosophy physical science Plato pleasure Plugson Poet poetry practical present principles problems profes profession Professor Huxley pure question Ruskin schools scientific sense social Society Socrates soul speak speech spirit student style sure teach technical tell things Thomas Carlyle Thomas Henry Huxley thought tical tion to-day true truth universal grammar usage vacuum furnace virtue words writing
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Página 19 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you...
Página 285 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Página 112 - Council for Professional Development, the recognized accrediting body of the engineering profession, composed of representatives of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the...
Página 167 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Página 297 - I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.
Página 361 - To sum up the whole: we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble : but the latter was attainable.
Página 229 - The first is, that neither the discipline nor the subject-matter of classical education is of such direct value to the student of physical science as to justify the expenditure of valuable time upon either; and the second is, that for the purpose of attaining real culture, an exclusively scientific education is at least as effectual as an exclusively literary education.
Página 390 - ... and of the resolved arbitration of the destinies, that conclude into precision of doom what we feebly and blindly began; and force us, when our indiscretion serves us, and our deepest plots do pall, to the confession, that "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Página 292 - Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions, or rather much more readily; for they do not distinguish between perception and notion. They fancy that I choose to see this or that thing. But perception is not whimsical, but fatal.
Página 106 - Society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer...