 For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them....  The Medical Age - Page 1291897Full view - About this book
 | Bibliography, National - 1858 - 656 pages
...patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all ho has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in tho plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art - 1860 - 138 pages
...recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words,...downright facts at present more than anything else. And though I often hear moral people complaining of the bad effects of want of thought, for my part,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 pages
...recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words,...downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we have... | |
 | William Henry Green - Chemistry - 1865 - 484 pages
...remember what Ruskin said : " Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words,...or his reader will certainly misunderstand them." Moreover, let the Bible be studied by him who seeks to acquire a good style of composition — not... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English essays - 1866 - 374 pages
...recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent disciplin'e for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words,...downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we have... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 pages
...recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words,...downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we have... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 pages
...recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words,...downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of acting, we have... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1894 - 944 pages
...student of science this diffuse method of expounding facts is distasteful. As Ruskin has remarked, " A downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and...downright facts at present more than anything else." The chapter on " The ' Heat Wave' of 1892 " furnishes an example of what can be done in the way of... | |
 | 1880 - 412 pages
...AMERICAN PRACTITIONER. JULY, 1880. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words,...in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainty misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we... | |
 | Medicine - 1913 - 576 pages
...cannot agree to always do so. Certainly it u excellent discipline for an author to feti that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is svre to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.... | |
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