"Academically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... academically owing to the fact that many of the problems of immunity have been elucidated by its aid; but its present practical importance lies in the application of the haemolytic system (that is haemolysin, corresponding erythrocyte solution and complement) to certain ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... the vocabulary of the learned. Todd gives examples from Shenstone and Langhorne. Warton has it more than once in his 'History of English Poetry'; and it figures in the 'Essays' of Vicesimus Knox. Thus academically launched, we need ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith
... of a missionary is something like that of a teacher. He comes to tell people something that they do not know; to introduce a Friend of whom they have not heard. He certainly knows more about Christianity, academically and experimentally, than the people to whom he goes—otherwise there would be no point in his going. He probably knows more about the world in general than the people to whom he goes. He may know better ways of living and working, even for their environment, than they do. How can a person be conscious ...
— Have We No Rights? - A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries • Mabel Williamson
... doing this. He is more elastic, less devoted to system. Without being as free, as sensitive to impressions as we like to see an artist of his powers, he escapes pedantry. His subject is not "The Rape of the Sabines," but "The Apotheosis of Homer," academic but not academically fatuitous. To follow the inspiration of the Vatican Stanze in the selection and treatment of ideal subjects is to be far more closely in touch with contemporary feeling as to what is legitimate and proper ...
— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell
... literature; drama and novels cannot exist side by side, and the novel had to wait for the decadence of the drama before it could appear and triumph. If one were to make a table of succession for the various kinds of literature as they have been used naturally and spontaneously (not academically), the order would be the epic, the drama, the novel; and it would be obvious at once that the order stood for something more than chronological succession, and that literature in its function as a representation and criticism of life passed ...
— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair
... Academically, the Duke had often reasoned that a man for whom life holds no chance of happiness cannot too quickly shake life off. Now, of a sudden, there was for ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... never miss a chance of a joke. In the educated classes, the humour is sly and delicate, so that Europeans often fail to see it, which adds to the enjoyment of the Chinese. Their habit of under-statement is remarkable. I met one day in Peking a middle-aged man who told me he was academically interested in the theory of politics; being new to the country, I took his statement at its face value, but I afterwards discovered that he had been governor of a province, and had been for many years a very prominent politician. In Chinese poetry there is an apparent absence of ...
— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell
... actually at the battle of Colenso drilled the Irish Brigade for half an hour before leading them into action, and threw out markers under a deadly fire in order that his change from close to extended formation might be academically correct. The heavy loss of the Brigade at this action was to some extent ascribed to him and affected his popularity; but as his men came to know him better, his romantic bravery, his whimsical soldierly humour, their dislike changed into admiration. His personal ...
— The Great Boer War • Arthur Conan Doyle
... ordinary hood with a lining of fur to keep out the cold. The original meaning of "typet" was the poke of the cowl, in which, the reader may happen to remember, Chaucer's Frere was in the habit of carrying his knives and pins. Academically, it was a distinct article of dress, lined with fur, and formed part of the insignia of the ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell |
