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Every national prejudice, every vulgar superstition, every remnant of pedantic system, every sentimental like or dislike, must be left behind you, for the induction of the world problem.
He is never pedantic, and, for all his close adherence to broad principles, he is ready to admit that no two ships can be treated exactly alike.
The conversations, it must be confessed, are often diffuse and pedantic; but they only make us feel most comfortably sleepy, as one invariably feels after a good day's fishing.
This body, however, was judicial rather than legislative; made up of pedantic and aristocratic lawyers, who could be troublesome.
Nothing is more pedantic than to seem too much concerned about wit or knowledge, to talk much of it, and appear too critical in it.
He despises all learning as a pedantic little thing, and believes books to be the business of children and not of men.
He then leaves the court, and his disgusted superiority is no doubt regarded as a pedantic assumption.
In the only honorable profession of the age he was the most thorough and the most pedantic professor.
The public had learned to love the pedantic, vain old man as if he were a real human being.
This pedantic school has wandered far indeed from the ideal that Frederick the Great set up.
The old medical officers were incapable, pedantic, and jealous; and no proper relation had ever been established between them and the military authorities.
Their work is therefore at the same time more archaic and more pedantic, judged by modern standards.
It was his characteristic glory that he knew how to be a man of the world without being frivolous, and a man of letters without being pedantic.
Though his conversation is never pedantic, it rests on a wide and strong basis of generous learning.
This may be the case now and then, but to regard it as a general principle is a mistake and a pedantic repetition of the same thing over and over again.
He can avoid the use of those pedantic terms which are really nothing but offensive and, fortunately, ephemeral scientific slang.
At a very early stage in the study of the science, anything more accurate would be useless, and therefore pedantic.
And now you actually boast because you write me such warm letters, while I only write to you often, you pedantic creature.
In general, the style of conversation is solemn, pedantic, and seldom animated, but by a dispute.
Pray, madam, read it; this written hand is such a damned pedantic thing, I could never away with it.
I believe I was a quarter of an hour in reading it: for I made it, though not a short one, six times as long as it is, by the additions of oaths and curses to every pedantic line.
Whether in the presence of ladies or gentlemen, much display of learning is pedantic and out of place.
With a generous hatred of stupidity, he flies full tilt at the pedantic education of the monasteries, and asserts the highest ideals of science and humanity.
It is a pedantic love of detail, with an indifference to the result, for which alone it can be considered valuable.
In this connection it should not be forgotten that the retention of these images is somewhat pedantic and depends upon unimportant things.
Hinton knew not a word of Latin, but he had a pedantic pleasure in introducing it whenever he could.
Yet it seemed pedantic, in view of Byron's famous description, to let it appear under any other name.
It was immature, pedantic work, but still it had a certain glow and gave promise of the things yet to come.
It is the pure, pedantic, literal editions, the complete works of this author or that author which are forgotten.
In the second a pedantic insistence on the exclusive definition of the novel involves one practical inconvenience which no one, even among those who believe in it, has yet dared to face.
And with a pedantic air as though he were giving a lesson, he discoursed about the Orientals, great masters of the art of living.
There is no subject in literature, not even the interpretation of the Apocalypse, which has given birth to such pedantic, dismal, and futile discussion.
This, though extravagant without fancy, is not the worst part of the absurd humor which runs through this pedantic comedy.
This also has been attempted before, but perhaps in a manner too lengthy, too exact, too pedantic to be popular.
This somewhat precise and pedantic scheme of study I have adopted from no love of rigid or formal system, but simply to make the method of my critical process as clear as the design.
In its calm and lofty strain it is a wonderful contrast to Wagner's savage and pedantic, though sublime poem.
It is the men from the schools, on the contrary, who are considered badly trained and pedantic.
However pedantic and ridiculous its transformation of drawing, it yet recognizes the existence of drawing.
I add one purely pedantic note which comes, as a note naturally should, at the beginning of the book.
We poke a good deal of fun at book learning nowadays, and there is a pedantic type of book learning that certainly deserves all the ridicule that can be heaped upon it.
It is their instinct to flower in spring, of course, but they are not pedantic about it in the least.
This leads Socrates to make the reflection that nice distinctions of words are sometimes pedantic, but sometimes necessary; and he proposes in this case to substitute the word 'through' for 'with.'
It would have been hard to say why this point interested him, for he had not the slightest real apprehension that she was dry or pedantic.
"Let us consider," I said, in my pedantic way, "how my difficulty may be overcome, and then let us discuss that one you consider to be essential."
This movement, pedantic as it was, showed an advance in finding similarities in things dissimilar, a change in the appreciation of the harmony.
Yet the indications all were that to wait for this most formal and pedantic disposition, which ignored every principle of warfare, would be to throw away the chance of battle.
The Spaniards are a people given to ceremony, and even in matters of battle are somewhat formal and pedantic.
In the middle ground there proceeds the pedantic effort to dispose of him by labelling him.
And where a simple conception and language is sufficient, to resort to the complex becomes affected and pedantic.
Had he learned that speech by heart in advance, or was he by nature a pedantic idiot who expressed himself in this set and formal manner?
That name had appeared pedantic, but we found it only the spontaneous expression of our own feelings on the spot.
He became more and more completely himself, that is to say, very simple intellectually, in a pedantic age.
This he did continuously with a pronunciation so correct and studied that it sounded pedantic.
We should not be so pedantic as to call for accuracy in such matters; but the difference between the fiction and what we believe would have been the reality is significant.
Learned and pedantic, his works had no inherent attraction, and nothing of them, but fragments has been preserved.
It requires the assistance, conscious and in a measure pedantic, of the thinkers and spiritual guides of a people.
These, indeed, are not truly the Statutes at large, but rather their pedantic and conventional descendants, who have taken out letters of administration to their wild ancestors.
The weariness, which the modern reader feels for the romance of Lyly, is due rather to the excessive quantity of its metaphor, which was the fault of the age, than to its pedantic style.
Pedantic work, if you like, labored literary exercises, and yet full of the freshness and the vigor which spring from the Latin itself.
Your military officers we know to be merely pedantic scholars or frivolous society men, without any capacity for practical warfare with white men.
He cannot conform himself to pedantic rules, which demand his return to college before midnight.
He is no longer pedantic; he no longer makes vulgar allusions, but only fears that they might be made.
Lester put in, trying to belong, and be light-minded, like he thought the others were, instead of a scared, pedantic kid.
Battles at sea were now beginning to be fought under formal rules which soon developed into a system of pedantic rigidity.
Its teachings are not, indeed, pedantic precedents; but they are the illustrations of living principles.
The day before his departure Rickie sat with him some time, and tried to talk in a way that was not pedantic.
She had read just enough to make her pedantic, and too little to give her any improving knowledge.
A warm and consistent advocate of appointment by competitive examination, wherever a field for competition existed, he was no pedantic slave to a theory.
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value, is a sign of a pedantic and borrowed criticism.
It would be pedantic, perhaps, anywhere but in a treatise on aesthetics, to deny to this quality the name of expression; we might commonly say that the circle has one expression and the oval another.
These slow and pedantic methods are not available for such a purpose; it requires the force of conquest or the power of faith.
From the same wish to avoid all pedantic attempts to dictate, we have not given any regular course of study in this chapter.
To ask for such truth in the sphere of theology is as pedantic as to ask for it in the sphere of poetry.
A gray man, pedantic in his speech, his features were strong: his nose, short and straight, somehow, expressed his intense intolerance of opposition.
Power is wasted on petty ends and frivolous excitement, and knowledge becomes barren and pedantic.
And virtue that is mean, knowledge that is pedantic, art that is base, love that is sensual are not Goods at all.
When I have done, the boy will not have understood a single idea out of all my pedantic display.
Our pedantic mania for instructing constantly leads us to teach children what they can learn far better for themselves, and to lose sight of what we alone can teach them.
James, however, having plunged into one of his pedantic hobbies, had small perception of aught aside from the discourse in hand.
To pronounce in a manner nearly approaching to the Hebrew might make the congregation stare, but would appear very pedantic to a learned ear.
There was Sir James Smith, the botanist, made much of and really not pedantic and vulgar like the rest, but weak and irritable.
Between the counsels of a pedantic scholarship, and the rude and hesitating, but true instincts of the natural English ear, every one was at sea.
She gave a willing ear to all his pedantic talk; and he used the opportunity much to his own gratification.
The earl, who proves to be a rather pedantic nobleman, passes in review all nations, and proves that they are not worth the trouble of going to see.
His report is very pedantic, full of quotations from the Scriptures, Shakespeare, and other poets.
The pedantic presumption of James was safe till it rubbed against the more stubborn pride of Coke.
I am not by a long way so anxious to classify, the pictures which your powerful mind suggests to you as are those pedantic critics who take such great pains in this line.
The pictures which your mighty genius inspires I should by no means narrow into one class so strictly as the pedantic masters try to do.
Learning is commonly thought of as a weight to be carried, which makes men dull, heavy, or pedantic.
Said he, at last, in a pedantic tone, spreading out both hands as if he were scattering the praise letter by letter.
Pedantic and conventional rules were laid down regarding beauty, and the greatest confusion of ideas existed concerning the provinces and limits of the respective arts.
Keep a useful and short commonplace book of what you read, to help your memory only, and not for pedantic quotations.
You'll make the acquaintance of a very charming young fellow, and I warn you in advance, do not allow it to be too evident that you like him much better than your pedantic friend.
In it, in my opinion, Herrera proved himself an architect thoroughly worthy of the masters who employed him, formal, pedantic, cold, extravagant to a degree, and yet mean.
The strength and weakness of his temperament betrayed themselves plainly here, for the security that pedantic order brought precluded the perspective of a larger vision.
Clever persons and pedantic persons have united to find fault with certain elements of Cooper's art.
Domitian may have had a genuine, if a pedantic, desire to restore the old Roman tone in morals and religion.
Scruples, perhaps of a somewhat pedantic conscience, and only you have the right to reproach me for it.
He assumed his little air of pedantic dignity, feeling that he had got the best of the argument.
This narrow and pedantic theory had at least the merit of insisting on propriety of expression.