Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Snow was the author of a number of valuable books on international law, and was one of the leading authorities on that subject in the country. Only recently he completed a course of lectures at the naval college at Newport...
...aspirations and failures, of his thought, his speculation, and his dreams, that we can become complete men, and learn both what he is and what he may be, for it is the unconscious autobiography of mankind. And has no page been added to it since the last ancient classic author laid down...
...have proceeded from no other pen than Shakespeare's." On equally strong grounds we might pronounce him the author of that concise epic, Humpty Dumpty...
...most commonly the case that a translator does not so much convert an author into his own language as into himself. How utterly unlike their originals are Pope's Homer, and Hoole's Tasso, Murphy's Tacitus and Francis's Horace? The greater the author, the more he suffers, because power of expression is always a chief part of the outfit of a great author. Certain phrases may be translated, like the famous: "They make a solitude and call it peace" of Tacitus, but who ever saw a satisfactory version of the concluding paragraphs of the Life of Agricola...
...that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups...