10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCARABAEIST»
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1
The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Call me a Scarabaeist ifyou will; ifIcan prove myself worthyof that name,
myhighest ambition willbemorethan satisfied. I think,by way of compromise and
convenience, I shall call him the Scarabee. He has come to look wonderfully like
those ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
2
The Entire Works of Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
... haveno right tosocomprehensive aname. The genus Scarabaeus is what I
have chiefly confined myself to, and oughtto have studied exclusively. The
beetles proper are quite enoughfor the labor of one man's life. Call me a
Scarabaeist if you ...
3
The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine
In the third of his " Breakfast-table " series, Mr. O. W. Holmes introduces a man
who is spending his life in the study of beetles, who rejects the title " entomologist
," and prefers to style himself a " Scarabaeist." His form and features, his gait and
...
We all know the scarabaeist of Wendell Holmes, who sunk his life in beetles, and
regarded the man professing to be an entomologist as necessarily a humbug.
There is the classical scholar who, as Byron says, — Of Grecian dramas vaunts ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell,
1885
5
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
We all know the scarabaeist of Wendell Holmes, who sunk his life in beetles, and
regarded the man professing to be an entomologist as necessarily a humbug.
There is the classical scholar who, as Byron says : — "Of Grecian dramas vaunts
...
6
Maryland medical journal
The sensible man should be satisfied if he can make an abiding mark as a
scarabaeist. And so it is in medicine. We have reached with a vengeance the
days of specialism, and so great is the outpouring of facts and of new articles
regarding ...
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland,
1904
7
Congress of Arts and Science: Universal Exposition, St. ...
The “ Poet at the Breakfast-Table ” supposed his neighbor to be an entomologist,
but the man of science was too modest to claim that title. Often spoken of as a
coleopterist, he was content to be a scarabaeist. “ If I can prove myself worthy of ...
Howard Jason Rogers,
1907
We all know the scarabaeist of Wendell Holmes, who sunk his life in beetles, and
regarded the man professing to be an entomologist as necessarily a humbug.
There is the classical scholar who, as Byron says, — Of Grecian dramas vaunts ...
9
Ideals of Culture: Two Addresses to Students
Now, I will not deny that specialism has its dangers. We all know the scarabaeist
of Wendell Holmes, who sank his life in beetles, and regarded the man
professing to be an entomologist as necessarily a humbug. There is the classical
IDEALS ...
Edward Adolf Sonnenschein,
1891
10
Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society
... present stage of our biological knowledge “none but a 'scarabaeist' of the first
magnitude will regret.” It is another outward sign Of the long looked for and much
to be desired fusion in method and treatment of two departments of scientific ...
Liverpool Biological Society,
1890