10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DILETTANTEISH»
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... and over a winter the darkest balsam swamps, the loneliest lakes, the most
remote hardwood ridges, were turned into playgrounds for dilettanteish people
who built huge mansions and called them " camps," who graveled walks through
the ...
2
The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Literary criticisms
... and Mndles up many pure and noble aspirations. We honor him for his
heartiness, honesty, deep earnestness, and lofty aims. There is nothing little,
insignificant, or dilettanteish about him. He is a man ; thinks, feels, and speaks as
a man.
Orestes Augustus Brownson, 1885
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What is English?: A book of strategy for English teachers
But English — that demanded only hazy desire and the throb of inspiration. A
large proportion of its teachers, in both school and college, have been
dilettanteish, 9 amateurish, ignorant of fact, and scornful of system. They have
Introduction.
Charles Henshaw Ward, 1917
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English lands, letters and kings ...
The poet, after his father's death, undertook, in a languid way, the study of law;
but finally landed again in Cambridge, and was a dilettanteish student there
nearly all his days, being made a Professor of History at last ; but not getting fairly
into ...
Donald Grant Mitchell, 1907
5
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
The sixteenth chapter is a discussion of the question of expert testimony, but the
remedies for the evils of the expert system are dilettanteish in character, and
ignore the existence of the very potent " political machine," which makes out of
very ...
6
German Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher, in ...
... guessing at meanings, and of slurring over difficulties ; from which is afterward
apt to be derived a weak, indecisive, and dilettanteish habit of looking for nothing
but pleasure in the study. A method of reading which is, on the other hand, too ...
Contemning the restricted and dilettanteish functions of foreign art, it is not even
content with being the amplest literary mirror in the world. It reflects with
sovereign power thronged city and desolate forest, the snow-crowned summits of
the ...
George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, 1912
8
The celtic records and historic literature of Ireland: Being ...
And this decrease is the result of bad government, of misrule, of Manchester and
Brnmmagem quackery; it has gone on in spite of all the money squandered on
Public Works, and wasted in carrying out the Utopian projects of dilettanteish ...
9
The Writings of George Eliot: Middlemarch
"Bah! that is because you are dilettanteish and amateurish. If you were an artist,
you would think of Mistress Second-Cousin as antique form animated by
Christian sentiment — a sort of Christian Antigone — sensuous force controlled
by ...
George Eliot, John Walter Cross, 1908
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The Fortnightly Review
Thoroughly earnest and strenuous people may stigmatise this attitude as
dilettanteish, and I have a notion that they do not really like me. But I feel sure,
dear Mr. Wells, that you will protect me against your Samurai and their
presumable Indea: ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DILETTANTEISH»
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Curiosity: Art & the Pleasures of Knowing, Turner Contemporary
It may be time to relax the Enlightenment definitions and go with the dilettanteish flow of the Baroque collector. Our obsession with classifying ... «The Arts Desk, Jun 13»
