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What he possessed, however got, was a combination of all those recognized elements of literary greatness except one thing; he heeded not the warning of cultured mediocrity that commands most writers what to leave unsaid. Brann left nothing unsaid, and because of that fact was locked out of colleges, libraries, encyclopaedias and halls of fame.
He usually found that if she was looking at the picture still, she was not seeing it. Her eyes were fixed, but her thoughts were wandering, and an image more vivid than any that Raphael or Titian had drawn had superposed itself upon the canvas. She asked fewer questions than before, and seemed to have lost heart for consulting guide-books and encyclopaedias.
His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a number of earnest students full of promise. D'Arthez earned a living by conscientious and ill-paid work; he wrote articles for encyclopaedias, dictionaries of biography and natural science, doing just enough to enable him to live while he followed his own bent, and neither more nor less.
In the third place, these airports must be so divided that they would not have to be visited during the hours of darkness, for few if any of them would be likely to have efficient enough lighting systems to make night landings safe. Within fifteen minutes the boys had the long table in front of them literally covered with geographies, atlases, loose maps, and encyclopaedias.
Since this vast development of thought, this even and fruitful diffusion of light, we have scarcely any men of superiority, because every single man represents the whole education of his age. We are surrounded by living encyclopaedias who walk about, think, act and wish to be immortalized. Hence the frightful catastrophes of climbing ambitions and insensate passions.
His mouth now began to take strange shapes and to increase magically in area, and beads appeared in the corners of his large eyes. "I I was only measuring his tail by his hind leg," he blubbered and then sobbed. Edward Henry did his best to save his dignity. "Come, come!" he reasoned, less menacingly. "Boys who can read Encyclopaedias mustn't be cry-babies.
It is natural that, once in a while, when an editor gets hold of a catalogue of unusual merit, and happens to have a line of encyclopaedias at hand it is natural, we say, that, under such circumstances, an editor should take pleasure in letting his subscribers know how learnedly he can write about books and things.
It was a point of honour to throw themselves thoroughly into the parts, and they would often prepare themselves at home by reading up various points in histories or encyclopaedias. This was exactly what Miss Mitchell aimed at. "They're educating themselves!" she explained to Miss Fanny. "They'll never forget these facts that they have taken the trouble to find out.
There are several useful encyclopaedias of sects and heresies, compact, but still bulky, to which the curious may go. There are ten thousand different expositions of orthodoxy.
Certainly, more important operations than that have been performed, observed Richard; the encyclopaedia mentions much more incredible circumstances than that, as, I dare say, you know, Dr. Todd. Certainly, there are incredible tales told in the encyclopaedias, returned Elnathan, though I cannot say that I have ever seen, myself, anything larger than a musket ball extracted.
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