 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 11892Full view - About this book
 | Bibliography, National - 1858 - 656 pages
...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,...; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. And though I often hear moral people complaining of tho bad effects of want of thought,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art - 1860 - 138 pages
...fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally,...; 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,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 pages
...fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally,...way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English essays - 1866 - 374 pages
...fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally,...way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 pages
...fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally,...; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 pages
...fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally,...; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. FAITH, TRUTH, AND OBEDIENCE. In the pressing or recommending of any act or manner of... | |
 | 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 we want downright facts at present more than anything else." The chapter on " The ' Heat Wave' of 1892 " furnishes an example of what can be done... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - American literature - 1876 - 168 pages
...possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in the plainest possible words, or his reade1 will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also,...told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at the present more than anything else. RUSBIH. Hope, Love, and Faith.} LXI V. Hope, only Hope, of all... | |
 | Medicine - 1878 - 798 pages
...them ; and in the plainest possi ble vronU, his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want right facts at present more than anything else." The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner. February... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1880 - 242 pages
...fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally,...; 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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