Word: dictum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...criticism in the enthusiasm natural to the pursuit - that the first, the healthful instinct is to cry, Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial and most wise attitude toward the contest, swayed as we are by considerations entirely different from those which met us when, boys in red and blue, we were of the battle...
...reply to Col. Higginson's rather pointed criticism of a statement of his, is interesting and well written. However, the reader is made to feel through this reply now insignificant the whole question at issue is. It seems, to use Col. Higginson's own words, that "a mere obiter dictum is taken up" and made too much of. On the whole the fair-minded reader must acknowledge that Mr. Hamerton has not gotten the upper hand in the discussion. In fact, it is astonishing that he does not employ more strict logic in refuting the charges brought against...
...naturae verique." Quid autem de vivario illo dicam, aequoris Atlantici prope marginem ulteriorem condito, ubi maris immensi miracula minutis-sima ab hoc viro accuratissime examinantur, ubi oceani ipsius e penetralibus profundis rerum naturae veritas ipsa audacter extorquetur? Satis erit hodie de veritate illa dicere quad olim de Romanorum virtute dictum...
...preserve the best literary work of the college. But in 1827 a new periodical called "The Harvard Register" was initiated into the world of literature. It was published once a month, its editors being members of the senior class. The motto adopted by its founders, Byron's famous dictum, "I won't philosophize, and I will be read," seems to indicate that the lesson of the failure of its predecessor had been learned and that ponderous articles would be eschewed. Among its more famous editors were C. C. Felton, later professor of Greek and president of the University, George...
There is no writer of English, alive or dead, whose works would stand the tests applied by professors to the compositions of pupils; and yet it is the usage of good writers and not the dictum of the professor that determines what is and what is not good English. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser...