 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....  American Practitioner and News - Page 3191897Full view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1899 - 552 pages
...and in the plninfgt pvstiblc wordt, or hit reader mitt certainly mitundentand them. Generally, alto, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we vunt downright facts at present more than anything elie.— EUBKI.V. READ. REFLECT. COMPARE. RECORD.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1886 - 160 pages
...literature for some time to come ; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. And though I often hear moral people complaining of the bad effects of want of thought,... | |
 | Medicine - 1886 - 490 pages
...contributed to this journal only. The editors are not responsible for Tiews expressed by contributors. CERTAINLY It Is excellent discipline for an author...Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a C'n way ; and we want downright facts at present more anything else.— KUSKIN. A Fuller Expression... | |
 | 1895 - 1074 pages
...AMERICAN PRACTITIONER AND NEWS " NEC TENUI PENNA." VOL. XIX. LOUISVILLE, KY., JUNE 1, 1895. No. 11. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the (Original Ctrticles. THE BORDERLAND OF SANITY AND INSANITY, INCLUDING NORMAL AND ABNORMAL MAN. BY TB... | |
 | Medicine - 1886 - 612 pages
...discipline for an author to feel that he mutt say all he hat to say in the fewest possible words, »r his reader is sure to skip them : and in the plainest possible words, 9r his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, sdso, a downright fact may be told in a... | |
 | Medicine - 1886 - 908 pages
...days. March 23, 1886. 'NEC TENUI PENNA.' VOL. I. [MEW SPIES.] LOUISVILLE, KY., APRIL 17, 1886. No. 8. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he mutt toy all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1887 - 818 pages
...literature for some time to come ; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent .discipline for an author...will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a dowuright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 252 pages
...trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. Shakespeare. Brevity. IT is excellent discipline for an author to feel that...words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. "When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.... | |
 | Medicine - 1889 - 570 pages
...cannot be returned. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel thai he must say alt he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them : ana in the plainest possible trord», or his reader wiu certainly misunderstand them. Generally,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 486 pages
...literature for some time to come ; and then, perhaps, the public may recover its patience again. For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author...; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. And though I often hear moral people complaining of the bad effects of want of thought,... | |
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