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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... learned to play with words ; they have picked up no tricks , mannerisms , and affectation like Osric and Oronte in the plays . They were not trained to write essays , and never got veterans to discourse to them on Style . Yet , as ...
... learned to play with words ; they have picked up no tricks , mannerisms , and affectation like Osric and Oronte in the plays . They were not trained to write essays , and never got veterans to discourse to them on Style . Yet , as ...
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... learned societies , there is time to study form and style and to eliminate errors due to haste ; hence , when such matters are ill written , it is not unfairly argued that the writer is ignorant of the correct use of the language . Such ...
... learned societies , there is time to study form and style and to eliminate errors due to haste ; hence , when such matters are ill written , it is not unfairly argued that the writer is ignorant of the correct use of the language . Such ...
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... learned societies is now severe and is rapidly growing more so . Every normal , healthy - minded technical man desires to leave a per- manent record of the results of his best thought and work to aid his co - workers and those who come ...
... learned societies is now severe and is rapidly growing more so . Every normal , healthy - minded technical man desires to leave a per- manent record of the results of his best thought and work to aid his co - workers and those who come ...
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... learned ; as custom of life , which is the consent of the good . " 1 The dictum of Horace , indeed , has hardly been called in question for most of the two thousand years which have elapsed since its utterance . But of late attempts ...
... learned ; as custom of life , which is the consent of the good . " 1 The dictum of Horace , indeed , has hardly been called in question for most of the two thousand years which have elapsed since its utterance . But of late attempts ...
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... learned just as language itself is learned . Furthermore , there is no short - cut to its acquisition . Grammars may in some instances help us ; in some instances they do help us , but in others they some- times do just the reverse ...
... learned just as language itself is learned . Furthermore , there is no short - cut to its acquisition . Grammars may in some instances help us ; in some instances they do help us , but in others they some- times do just the reverse ...
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...