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So he set about acquiring knowledge. He dabbled in the languages, and a few useful words and phrases stuck. He plunged into the sciences, and arose from the immersion dripping with a smattering of astronomy, chemistry, biology, archæology, and what not.
"You'll have a chance of picking up a smattering before we get home again; but I never knew any `cabin young gentlemen' turn out sailors," answered the mate, with a sneer. "A man is not worth anything unless he comes in at the `hawse holes, to my mind." "I will do my best while I am on board, and get all the knowledge I can," said Owen.
She had a strange smattering of knowledge for a girl of eighteen. It would seem that she had been gifted with a memory for two since her father had none, and whatever she learned from the row of books on the shelves she remembered. That is, whatever interested her. She knew the constellations and the planets, and on summer nights had located them in the heavens by means of the book chart.
The young man greeted him with refined courtesy, and the Doctor anxious to show him that he understood French, addressed him in what he supposed to be that language, a smattering of which he had picked up as far back as the time of the Emperor Napoleon I. "Vooz-ate oon medesen, monshoo?" "Oui, monsieur, mon collègue." "The Devil is your collègue, I am not! Vooe-ate oon magnetizoor, monshoo?"
It was founded some hundred years ago, by those who thought much and in advance of their time. In an age when girls were almost uneducated, when nothing further was required from them than a smattering of reading and writing, these wise and far-seeing people said that they would give the girls of the future a chance.
They were clever young artisans from Russia and Poland with a smattering of education, a feverish receptiveness for all the iconoclastic ideas that were in the London air, a hatred of capitalism and strong social sympathies. They wrote vigorous jargon for the Friend of Labor and compassed the extreme proverbial limits of impiety by "eating pork on the Day of Atonement."
Not that he had really read or studied much; but he had gathered a smattering on many subjects, and knew how to make a little knowledge go a great way.
Above all, by showing her the real life about her, and how much beauty there is everywhere, to those whose eyes are not shut by conventions, it saves her from that dreary, weary pessimism that seeks its relief in fancied idealism, in a smattering of art, of literature, or of religion, and which is the curse of so many of her sisters in other lands.
There was a very elegant young gentleman in a black coat, with a smattering of English, who led the talk at once to the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. And then there were three handsome girls from fifteen to twenty; and an old gentleman in a blouse, with no teeth to speak of, and a strong country accent. Quite the pick of Origny, I should suppose.
For would these men have known of them if Rome had not been? The Trinity the Atonement the Inspiration of Scripture. A future state that point on which the present generation, without a smattering of psychological science, without even the old belief in apparitions, dogmatises so narrowly and arrogantly what would they have known of them but for Rome?
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