10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMATTERER»
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smatterer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
smatterer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
For, in the ordinary sense of the word — in the sense in which it applies to Mr.
Hyndman — it would be wholly inaccurate to call Marx a smatterer at all. He was,
on the contrary, a man of great reading and research, and his work on 'Capital,' in
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William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, 1884
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Property and Progress: Or, A Brief Inquiry Into Contemporary ...
century, there was scarcely a yeoman of the old type left in a county." 1 [The
words of Marx are, " Towards the year 1750 the yeomanry had disappeared."] We
have said that the agitator in his dealings with history is a smatterer , and, in
proving ...
William Hurrell Mallock, 1884
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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW VOL. 157
[The words of Marx are " Towards the year 1750 the yeomanry had disappeared."
] ' We have said that the agitator in his dealings with history is a smatterer ; and in
proving the justice of this charge, the example of Marx has an exceptional force ...
irretrievably condemned. But is every beginning of knowledge a smattering?
Then were we smatterers all : and no first step in any learning would ever be
taken. Surely a smatterer is one who, having learnt a little of a subject, thinks he
has ...
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The Christian Baptist ...
Said he, // is presumption- it is wicked, for an individual. and he a mere smatterer*
to take the work of a translation out of the hands of king James' translators, men
so renowned for their learning and piety, who were so providentially protected- ...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer ...
To be called a smatterer or a sciolist is to suffer a grave loss of self-esteem, — in
the minds of younger men more especially, who rarely possess philoso phy
enough to analyse ridicule before allowing it to affect them. To be a smatterer is
no ...
7
Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton: with a ...
has never been able to read a paper to ail end; and Mr. Smatterer — " " Does Mr.
Smatterer, too, declare against it ?" asked Echo, looking aghast : " then I suppose
I must have been misinformed ; but I assure you I heard it called a good thing ...
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London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine
Courses of only three or four months' duration, and consisting only of three
lectures a week, must be very superficial, and leave the hearer but a smatterer,
so that to become well informed, he must have industry enough to read
extensively, and ...
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Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton
has never been able to read a paper to an end; and Mr. Smatterer—” “ Does Mr.
Smatterer, too, declare against it ?” asked Echo, looking aghast: “ then I suppose
I must have been misinformed; but I assure you I heard it called a good thing by ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
On the one hand we hear the smatterer denounced, on the other the pedant. The
gentleman who led the Trojans insidiously deplored " the minimum standard." But
if it be really the smatterer against whom he is waging war, the standard may ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SMATTERER»
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Saying Nothing With Style: The 2014 BioPharma Edition of BS Bingo
Clearly there are a lot of smatterers out there. Mining these phrases from their bloated narratives was pretty easy; they practically jumped off the page, even ... «Xconomy, Jun 14»
Just for Laughs 2012: Kermit, Piggy and the Muppet gang take …
“Moi's right hand doubles as a French Swine Smatterer! So if you are looking to smite Moi's frog, think again sister!” Best to change the subject – and quickly ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 12»
The Challenge of Understanding Biotech: Sifting Through the Fog …
... when none other will answer his purposes; whereas the smatterer in science thinks that by mouthing hard words he proves that he understands hard things.”. «Xconomy, Oct 10»
