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Word: familiar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOOLS OF THE TRADE FOR A LITERARY WORKSHOP, | 1/25/1897 | See Source »

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOOLS OF THE TRADE FOR A LITERARY WORKSHOP, | 1/23/1897 | See Source »

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOOLS OF THE TRADE FOR A LITERARY WORKSHOP, | 1/22/1897 | See Source »

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOOLS OF THE TRADE FOR A LITERARY WORKSHOP, | 1/21/1897 | See Source »

...scholar he was preeminent in the studies to which he had especially devoted himself and which compelled him to occupy a vast field of learning. He was familiar with many languages and thoroughly acquainted not only with general literary history, but with the specific details of many branches of many literatures. His teaching was equally exact and inspiring, and his personal influence on young men was powerful, far-reaching, and permanent. He was an admirable critic, both of style and of thought. Singularly free from narrowness and pedantry, his judgment was discriminating, wise, and liberal. Whatever he said or wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Francis J. Child. | 12/17/1896 | See Source »

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