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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... character of the book but only to carry out somewhat 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 ...
... character of the book but only to carry out somewhat 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 ...
Página vi
... character which have come to my attention and which have been called to my notice by interested users of the book is very large . I should like to have included another twenty or thirty in this edition , but in such a matter I am , of ...
... character which have come to my attention and which have been called to my notice by interested users of the book is very large . I should like to have included another twenty or thirty in this edition , but in such a matter I am , of ...
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... character , is really in accord with it . The demeanor never contradicts the character . It is one part of the character that contradicts another part of the character . For , after all , the blunt man is blunt , and the awkward man is ...
... character , is really in accord with it . The demeanor never contradicts the character . It is one part of the character that contradicts another part of the character . For , after all , the blunt man is blunt , and the awkward man is ...
Página 8
... character and resembles the character . So with style and matter . You may argue that the blunt , rough man's demeanor is unfair to his tenderness . I do not think so . For his churlishness is really very trying and painful , even to ...
... character and resembles the character . So with style and matter . You may argue that the blunt , rough man's demeanor is unfair to his tenderness . I do not think so . For his churlishness is really very trying and painful , even to ...
Página 14
... character , or of letting a graceful de- portment blind you to a fundamental vacuity . When in doubt , ignore style , and think of the matter as you would think of an individual . III On English Prose By Frederic Harrison 1 - Fili 14 ...
... character , or of letting a graceful de- portment blind you to a fundamental vacuity . When in doubt , ignore style , and think of the matter as you would think of an individual . III On English Prose By Frederic Harrison 1 - Fili 14 ...
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...