5 QUOTES WITH «PEDANTRY»
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pedantry.
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
The wages of pedantry is pain.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEDANTRY»
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pedantry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pedantry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Halesworth Dunciad; a Satire on
Pedantry: Addressed to ...
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Studions he sat; with all his books around, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast
...
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
pedantry. AI was often annoyed in my childhood to see a teacher always the butt
in Italian comedies; and the title of Magister used to have scarcely a more
honorable significance among us Frenchmen. For since I had been given into
their ...
Michel de Montaigne, 1958
3
Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word
He was aware of the dangers of pedantry, as he acknowledges in the critical
apparatus to the printed versions of his plays, writing in the dedication to Love for
Love, "I hope I may be excus'd the Pedantry of a Quotation, when it is so justly
apply ...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
In his entry at PEDANTRY, Fowler shows he is well aware of the slippery nature
of this term: my pedantry is your scholarship, his reasonable accuracy, her
irreducible minimum of education, & someone else's ignorance. It is therefore not
very ...
H. W. Fowler, David Crystal, 2009
Of pedantry 716 {p. 24, § 65.}" By a pedant we do not understand one who is
ignorant (thus the author's explanation is incorrect). But he is laughed at. How
does that happen? The word pedant comes from Italian and means actually
magister ...
Immanuel Kant, J. Michael Young, 2004
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Jonathan Swift: A Literary Reference to His Life and Works
Along with the goddess's other children—Positiveness, Impudence, Dullness,
Vanity, Pedantry, and Ill-Manners— Noise plays at Criticism's feet. Opinion In “
Battle of the Books,” sister of the goddess Criticism. Swift identifies Opinion
primarily ...
Paul J. DeGategno, R. Jay Stubblefield, 2009
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The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men ...
If it is not, we are altogether mistaken in our notions on this delicate subject. W. H.
No. XXX. ON PEDANTRY. • THE power of attaching an interest to the most trifling
or painful pursuits, in which our whole at- ; , tention and faculties are engaged, ...
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
Madam Dacier defines a pedant, a person who has more reading than good
fense. See Pedantry. Pedants are ever armed with quibbles and syllogisms,
breathe nothing but disputation and chicanery, and pursue .a proposition to the
last limits ...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
Madam Dacier defines a pedant, a person who has more reading than good
fense.. See Pedantry. Pedants are ever armed with quibbles and syllogisms,
breathe nothing but disputation and chicanery, and pursue a proposition to the
last limits ...
10
Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-century ...
Clearly the definition of "taste" has changed dramatically, as well as the concept
of "pedantry." One has only to recall Chapelain's letter to Balzac in which he
praised the chambre bleue for its lack of pedantry, as well other contemporaries'
...
Faith Evelyn Beasley, 2006
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEDANTRY»
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GOP fearmongering just reached an outlandish new height: Inside …
Amid all the sputtering outrage and high-dudgeon fulminating, one Republican managed to rise above the rest with a potent mix of pedantry ... «Salon, Jul 15»
The Guardian view on media globalisation: good news for the …
It is quick without being rash, accurate without leaden pedantry, thoughtful without being ponderous, and unpredictable in its opinions without ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Democratic dialogues: how to communicate with the people of …
This is not pedantry. It is important because in eight or nine hours a hundred people can do much more than they can do in 4 hours. My heart ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
Hear The Wing Sing & Pinball 1973 by Haruki Murakami; trans. Ted …
... lecturer (and fellow pinball obsessive) for coffee, and a wonderful pastiche follows on the pedantry of the academic (“He took a sip of water. «The Independent, Jul 15»
Einstein's Morality
Or is it mere pedantry? Perhaps Einstein's emphasis on the non-existence of an autonomous self is not practically helpful in the short run; but perhaps it can be ... «Philosophy Now, Jul 15»
A Cinema of Confrontation: With The Look of Silence, Joshua …
The Austin-born, Copenhagen-based Oppenheimer's precision shouldn't be mistaken for pedantry. The words he targets have tremendous ... «MovieMaker Magazine, Jul 15»
Day Buhari, Tinubu Proved Rumour Mongers Wrong
... aspirant, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah later joined them, the parley became even more jovial with a lot of witty jokes and constructive pedantry. «Leadership Newspapers, Jul 15»
Theater Review: Charm, wit ensure that 'Love's Labour' isn't lost
... Lost," may be recondite and discursive, it may be guilty of outlandish verbal pedantry, but Worcester Shakespeare Company's artistic director, ... «Worcester Telegram, Jul 15»
Chesterton vs. the Woolly-Minded
There may be, and there has been, pedantry in the medical profession. There may be, and there has been, theology that was thin or dry or ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
What same-named pop culture drives you crazy?
Now, however, due to the very serious, very adult demands of specificity and online pedantry (and some petty maneuvering by Columbia ... «A.V. Club Austin, Jul 15»
