8 QUOTES WITH «ERUDITION»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
erudition.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly appetite for intellectual and artistic erudition, which, for the sake of balance, I keep well harnessed to a reliable sense of the absurd.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ERUDITION»
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erudition in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
erudition and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
In this enlightening book, with a new preface and postscript for the Anglophone audience, Maurice Olender investigates the unsuspected links between erudition and race, showing the affinities between the social sciences and the concept of ...
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Historia: Empiricism and
Erudition in Early Modern Europe
Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits.
Gianna Pomata, Nancy G. Siraisi, 2005
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Wings for Our Courage: Gender,
Erudition, and Republican Thought
In her highly original study Jed reorganizes republicanism in history, providing a new theoretical framework for understanding the work of the scholar and the social structures of archives, libraries, and erudition in which she is inscribed ...
Stephanie H Jed, Stephanie H Jed, 2011
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From Alexandria to Babylon: Near Eastern Languages and ...
This is an edition with introduction and detailed commentary of the Oxyrhynchus Glossary, a lexicon preserved in several papyrus fragments with glosses taken from Greek, Greek dialects and “foreign languages”, especially Near-Eastern ...
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François Blondel: Architecture,
Erudition, and the ...
The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarship on early modern architectural history and particularly on French classicism under Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
Anthony Gerbino, François Blondel, 2010
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François Blondel: Architecture,
Erudition, and the ...
The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarship on early modern architectural history and particularly on French classicism under Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
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Curiosities of Literature: A Book-lover's Anthology of ...
In Curiosities of Literature, John Sutherland contemplates the full import of questions such as these, and attempts a few answers in a series of essays that are both witty and eclectic. His approach is also unashamedly discursive.
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The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography
The French Encyclopaedists declared war upon erudition and carried the day.
Gibbon noticed what had happened: "In France . . . the learning and language of
Greece were neglected by a philosophic age." It is not possible to analyse here
the ...
The Essai endorses the statement in the Memoirs that Gibbon as early as 1758
resented what he thought to be d'Alembert's downgrading to the status of
mechanical operation of what was termed 'erudition', and set himself to show that
this ...
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The Canon of the Old and News Testaments ascertained, or The ...
EXTRACT EROM HALDANE'S "EVIDENCE AND AUTHORITY OE DIVINE
REVELATION/' " It has been asserted that ' the question of the Canon is a point of
erudition, not of divine revelation.' This is to undermine both the certainty and the
...
Archibald Alexander, D.D., 1851
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ERUDITION»
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erudition is used in the context of the following news items.
The Return of the Native: Extraordinary life and times of Shashi …
A politician who read books, wrote books and made no bones about his erudition is an odd bird in Indian politics where Macaulayputra is a four ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
Indian Political Humour: Nothing to Laugh About
The British are also fond of showing erudition in their humour. Churchill was echoing a famous line of the sixteenth-century thinker John ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
Put down the fiddle, Mr Stuart!
We are quite aware of his proficiency with the English Language, his general erudition and his clarity of mind and delivery during anticipated ... «Barbados Today, Jul 15»
An Exchange on the Single vs. Multi-Party Issue
I must continue to rely on this rather whimsical example to make up for my lack of erudition in comparison to my gentle critic. The objectives ... «Havana Times, Jul 15»
VYAPAM Investigation - Story so far
Those who have worked with him will vouch for his erudition and tough approach. Therefore the fact that the two judgments refusing CBI probe ... «Niticentral, Jul 15»
Death, be not euphemistic
So when The Sun records my departure,* you can expect kind remarks about my supposed wit and erudition without mention of how regularly I ... «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»
Thought experiment: Aliens vow to destroy US if it doesn't quickly …
... is one that marginalizes the value of education and high erudition. The values of any society can be understood by observing the citizens it ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
Longtime Greenwich resident remembered for enthusiasm, love of …
... was recalled this week as an advocate for learning at all stages of life and a man who blended erudition with an engaging manner. «Greenwich Time, Jul 15»
Hyperbole and hysteria
This is erudition in the age of cyberspace: You surf until you reach the conclusion you're after. You click your way to validation, confusing the ... «Rutland Herald, Jul 15»
There's a reason for the lack of erudition
If forced into it, I'd have to confess I was a poor geography student, but I have an excuse, even if it is somewhat flimsy: It really wasn't my fault. «Ocala, Jul 15»
