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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1843. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... producing in conversation a few reigning scientific terms with a familiarity and readiness, which Amaze the onlearn'd, and make the learned smile, would it not be more modest even for those who are better informed, to avoid the common use of technical terms, whenever the idea can be as well conveyed without them 1 For it argues no real ability to know the names of tools--the ability lies in knowing their use; and while it is in the thing, and not in the term, that real knowledge consists, the charge of pedantry is attached to the use of the term, which would not attach to the knowledge of the science. In the faculty of speaking well, ladies have such a happy promptitude of turning their slender advantages to account, that there are many, who, though they have never been taught a rule of syntax, yet, by a quick facility in profiting from the best books and the best company, hardly ever violate one; and who often exhibit an elegant and perspicuous arrangement of style, without having studied any of the laws of composition. Every kind of knowledge which appears to be the result of observation, reflection, and natural taste, sits gracefully on woman. Yet, on the other hand, it sometimes happens, that ladies of no coutemptible natural parts are too ready to produce, not only pedantic expressions, but crude and unfounded notions; and still oftener to bring forward obvious and hackneyed remarks, which float on the very surface of a subject, with the imposing air of recent invention, and all the vanity of conscious discovery. This is because their acquirements have not been worked into their minds by early instruction: what knowledge they have gotten stands out as it were above the very surface of their minds, like the appliquee of the embroiderer, instead of having bee...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153907378 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153907372 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $21.70 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 312 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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