| 单词 | pedant |
| 例句 | But the writers I have in mind are the purists—also known as sticklers, pedants, peevers, snobs, snoots, nit- pickers, traditionalists, language police, usage nannies, grammar Nazis, and the Gotcha! The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I’m just so sick of pedants and conceited little tearer-downers I could scream.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Werfel patted him on the hand and said with affection, “Don’t touch me, you clammy, sweaty pedant.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Though the pedants are mistaken in insisting that than and as may only be conjunctions, the tree-thinking that motivates their judgment is sound. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, then continued speaking, with a sort of pedant’s passion. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z You may have been told by some pedant that over doesn’t apply to numbers, only to quantities. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I understand you left a pretty disturbed bunch of pedants up at Boston,” Nicholson said, watching him. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z A sort of intellectual warmth, the joy of the pedant who has found out some useless fact, shone through the dirt and scrubby hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z We know that he has full authorial approval, not least because – not unlike Amis – he is an etymology pedant and a usage bore, with a near-religious reverence for the Concise Oxford Dictionary. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z One of the richer paradoxes of the cocktail world is that, for all their Hawaiian shirts and beach-bum bonhomie, tiki aficionados are among the most doctrinaire pedants you’ll find in any bar. A Book Adds Rigor to the Laid-Back World of Tiki Cocktails 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z A pedant might note that elsewhere in his writings, Coelho has argued that friendship is a form of love so should not be considered a distinct virtue. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z For fellow pedants: center field in the current Yankee Stadium or the original one? When the Bronx Was a Forest: Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Q. What advice is a grammar pedant not likely to listen to? Style Invitational: Poems of the year(s)—‘time-travel’ with Merriam-Webster 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z You might think this sort of person would be prissy, persnickety, overly regimented, or whatever fits your image of an annoying pedant wielding a red pencil or, in this case, a microscopically fine-toothed comb. Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z “Ironic” is sung in the context of a high school writing workshop and the scene makes a joke from the elephant in the room: decades of pedants nit-picking the song’s misuse of the word “ironic.” Has Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical Since ‘Hair’? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z As befits a work centered on a word-loving pedant, “My Children” is crowded with metaphors. Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s ‘My Children! My Africa!’ at Signature Center 2012-05-25T02:00:01Z Like Mark and Julia, Cassie is a contradiction: both punk and pedant. Daniel Torday’s New Novel Pits Young Against Old 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z "Simple, seminal and loud/quiet, with an enigmatic ending" @gralegav Mogwai are a great band for pedants; there are two versions of this song, Xmas Steps and Christmas Steps. Mogwai: a beginner's guide 2013-02-13T11:46:00Z The Younger, as even Dunn admits, was a plodder and a bit of a pedant. They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Charles may be a dithering pedant, but he has the integrity of his conviction that the monarchy, if it exists at all, must be something more than “a pretty, plastic picture with no meaning.” Review: Crown Jewel: King Charles III in London 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The best critics and philosophers slide, necessarily, to and fro on the scale from butterfly to pedant. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Look at the misspelling of "atheists" – what pedant could possibly resist that bait? Confessions of an internet troll 2012-11-09T15:00:00Z He brings flamboyant drollery to the part of the pedant Holofernes, breaking into Latin at every ill-judged opportunity and flipping his hair triumphantly after employing the adjective “thrasonical.” Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Enemy Number One: The pedant or self-styled grammar snob, who has been with us for at least 400 years judging by the examples presented here, wringing his hands and lamenting the decline in linguistic standards. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Related: Modern tribes: the paint pedant I don’t care about the 1950s! Modern tribes: the climate change denier 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Was he nothing to do with nothing, I mean anything, just a way of showing that Sherlock – who picks him up on all of his grammatical errors – is both heartless and a pedant? TV review: Sherlock 2010-08-09T05:45:00Z She in turn would not hesitate to correct his pronunciation if need be, referring to herself as the "company pedant". Gillian Hush 2012-07-13T15:07:44Z Split infinitives are worth avoiding to keep pedants at bay, but there's nothing actually wrong with them, and a split infinitive is preferable to an inelegant alternative. Grammar rules everyone should follow 2013-05-09T13:56:00Z England is sometimes seen as synonymous with Britain, much to the chagrin of Scots, Welsh, Northern Irish and pedants everywhere. English devolution: a view from Scotland 2010-04-23T12:25:00Z Jo March — unforgivably — marriage to an insufferable pedant and surrender of all creative ambitions. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Like you, Charlie, I dislike the ideas of incorrigible pedants – I imagine them with wheedling voices and maybe leatherette patches on their sports jacket elbows – who pick up writers on their grammatical solecisms. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z At worst, George is a bit of a pedant; in Amina, he seeks a partner who's not so much subservient as comprehensible. The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger – review 2012-08-09T07:00:02Z Just as there are too many insufferable language pedants and poseurs. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leading the fight against mispronunciations 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Still, the pedant in me wishes subtitling or some other explanation was used. Dance Review: DanceAfrica at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-05-28T21:08:02Z "Welcome to the quiet carriage" - words that transform me into a restless, noise-hypersensitive pedant with no basic social skills. Life lessons from the mosh pit 2012-08-22T00:17:09Z A recurring complaint in Coetzee's more self-obsessed books has been that he is respected but not loved, famous but not popular, seen as "a pedant who dabbles in fiction". The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z Photograph: Alamy Considering the rage a split infinitive can incite among language pedants, they are really asking for trouble. War of wordcraft: invitation to write dictionary puts language nerds on alert 2012-07-18T11:08:04Z Thus, even when this boudoir pedant has Marie bound, gagged and twisted into a pretzel, the operative word is not abjection but ambivalence. ‘Romance’: But What Does She Really Want? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Pope.L is an artist, not a nitpicking pedant. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Tracking the changes wrought upon works of literature by the movies has, in the past, been a rather specialized pursuit, confined mainly to pedants. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z To please the pedants among you the original phrase "winter of our discontent" comes from the opening line of Shakespeare's Richard III. Laura Kuenssberg: Is this the new winter of workers' discontent? 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Once, having demanded that a headline combine several complex elements in a short word count, he found the result wanting: “As if written by pedants from Mars,” he declared. Allan M. Siegal, Influential Watchdog Inside The Times, Dies at 82 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Her Timlin is a squeaky-voiced pedant whose awkwardness masks personal and professional ambitions, as well as a lust for Saul that briefly threatens to transform “Crimes of the Future” into a triangle. Review: Surgery, sex and superfluous human organs converge in David Cronenberg's 'Crimes of the Future' 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z As any pedant will tell you, May is not technically summer. Embassy tours, Jazz in the Garden and other May highlights are back 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Some pedants will argue that’s not saying much with five players having completed one hole, but facts are facts and here we are. The Masters 2021: first round – live! 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z “I was ignorant, insensitive to the message that my ‘pedant dad’ comedic persona was indistinguishable from how abusive dads act, talk and think,” he added. Seattle musician, podcaster apologizes for ‘bean dad’ story 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The initially well-intentioned parenting moment — relayed in his “pedant dad” tone — was “poorly framed,” he later said, and immediately turned the tide of social media against him. The #BeanDad debacle explained — and how 'Jeopardy!' star Ken Jennings got involved 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z On Tuesday morning, he posted an apology to his website, saying, “I was ignorant, insensitive to the message that my ‘pedant dad’ comedic persona was indistinguishable from how abusive dads act, talk and think.’” Seattle’s Ken Jennings, about to guest host ‘Jeopardy!,’ gets embroiled in Twitter storm over ‘Bean Dad’ 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z There doesn’t seem to be any official rule-sheet agreed by pedants worldwide, so we must conclude you most certainly do not. Premier League 2019-20 review: players of the season 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z “If you think of yourself as something very special, you’ll end up a pedant and a bore.” Carl Reiner started out a sidekick. His genius made him 'a very familiar stranger' 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z I don’t mean to be a pedant, but there’s a spelling mistake in the title. 'Very Buckinghamshire': how 'society bible' Tatler fell out of royal favour 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The Jeffersonian journalist James Callender, after calling Adams a "repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor," was fined and sentenced to nine months in jail. The climate crisis must reunite America — and yes, that could happen 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z A pedant will point out that none of these things are strictly unprocessed by the time they are sold: the carrot is washed, the steak is refrigerated, the raisin is dried. How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z "I wouldn't call myself an outright pedant, but I do think where it's proper to be correct, one should be," she says. Do apostrophe's still matter? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It will not indulge Pringles pedants, who refuse to acknowledge a product consisting of rice flour and wheat starch mixed into a dehydrated potato base. How to Eat: a crisp sandwich 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Putting on my pedant’s hat, though, I will note that the claim that 51 Peg is a planet was not 100 percent justified. Who Really Discovered the First Exoplanet? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z So here we are again, with the semantic pedants pitted against the language-evolutionists. Here's why it's ok for Taylor Swift to use literally, figuratively | David Shariatmadari 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z But, as we have seen, that is what pedants have said throughout history. Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Bercow grew up in London, the son of a taxi driver who was something of a language pedant. House Speaker John Bercow on Theresa May, Brexit and why he won’t leave — yet 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z It needs to be deployed selectively and speedily; anything else risks turning what remains a pulsating league into a wearying circus for pedants. Premier League 2018-19 season review: our writers’ best and worst 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z If B is three times more than A, then, at least to a pedant like me, the expression 3x+x should represent the sentence “B is three times more than A.” The Mathematical Phrase That Melts My Brain 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z On my heaviest day of riding in sub-zero temps I stayed warm and mostly dry even though I was sweating like a pedant on a Reddit thread. Hydro Bot ski jacket review: sweat-slurping robots keep you dry 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The irony is, of course, that the pedants are the ones making the mistakes. Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z This statement has brought out the pedant in me. Chimpanzees ‘talk’ just like humans. It’s time to realise how similar we are | Jules Howard 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z A pedant might note that Holmes moved to a suburb of New York as a child, but the song title – Escape – had always evoked smalltown England, at least to me. If you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain, will you find love? 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Thought for Today: “Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.” Today in History 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z His tweets have triggered an unexpectedly heated debate during which he’s been belittled as a killjoy, a pedant, and even a misanthropist. Stone-stacking: cool for Instagram, cruel for the environment | Patrick Barkham 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z A pedant might argue the Master Plan didn’t mention anything about needing an initial public offering. The long unraveling of Tesla’s master plan 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Politics is often about the big picture, but sometimes it is a festival for pedants. Tory MPs set for Brexit 'concession' talks 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z “The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants,” wrote H.L. Sometimes the Language Game Needs a Penalty Box 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z American teenager Keziah Daum now possesses a prom dress with similar magical properties, and it’s landed her in hot water with culture pedants. An American woman wearing a Chinese dress is not cultural appropriation | Anna Chen 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law. Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The internet has always been a cozy home for partisans and pedants, conspiracists and crusaders, but gradually, their spirit has crept into the rest of our lives. It’s Getting Harder to Sort the ‘Credible’ from the Incredible 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z But I also have to suspend disbelief when I am watching a film, or risk being a heinous pedant that no one wants to go to the movies with. A definitive ranking of gas station junk-food scenes in movies 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Miriam, pass over a pedant's pitfall to hear what is said. A Healthy Dose of Guilt 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Are you a pettifogging pedant who thinks that the widespread use of the word “decimate” to mean “annihilate”, or “gay” to mean “homosexual”, is a sign of the barbarism and illiteracy of today’s youth? Don’t press send … The new rules for good writing in the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Eight different players had opportunities and by the end of the game, la Real had won every stat, except – pedants – the only stat that really counts. Real Sociedad leave Barcelona with more than just food for thought | Sid Lowe 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z But only consonant pedants would demand a translation of the name of the busy thoroughfare which runs perpendicular to George Bush Boulevard. Kosovo's love affair with the Clintons - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Flipping through Mr. Garner’s usage dictionary is enough to leave even a professional pedant dizzied. How to Write Like Antonin Scalia 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z On that foundation, a lot of people, mostly stiff-necked pedants, decided that golf, alone among games, was honorable. A quintessential Dustin Johnson drama ends with very little drama at all - Golf Digest 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z You may frame it as a stylistic preference, as a way of showing off a conventional education and implying intellectual authority, or simply as throwing a bone to the pedants in the audience. Don’t press send … The new rules for good writing in the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Each of these doctored realities is close enough, a problem only for pedants. Is Everything Wrestling? 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z And those pedants still hung up on facts and evidence and all that boring stuff are left for dust, their boots barely laced while the lie has spread halfway around the world. Post-truth politicians such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are no joke | Jonathan Freedland 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Related: Ecuador's radical grammar pedants on a mission to correctly punctuate graffiti To translate from High Grammarian, if it’s between commas or after a comma, err on the side of “which”. Wait … is that a rule? Ten everyday grammar mistakes you might be making 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z It is the sort of question which part-time pedants who find themselves doing a lot of driving become obsessed by - where exactly are these distances measured from? Are we nearly there yet? Finding out where 'there' is - BBC News 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Grammar pedants are more likely to be introverts. 10 things we didn't know last week - BBC News 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Photograph: BBC/Mike Hogan D double negatives Committed pedants rule that a pair of negatives must be interpreted as equalling a positive. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z On the other side, partisan journalist James Callender wrote that Adams was a "repulsive pedant" and "gross hypocrite" who "behaved neither like a man nor like a woman but instead possessed a hideous hemaphroditical character." The Loathing Election 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z There are some widely inaccurate articles, a lot of trolling – especially on religious subjects – and a handful of grammar pedants. Wikipedia launching $100m fund to secure long-term future as site turns 15 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z When I tweeted about the real rankings earlier this week, several people responded that I was a party-pooping pedant. ‘Star Wars,’ and How a Force Helps the Federal Reserve 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The stickler brigade, often stuck in a Venn diagram with the fun jockeys that are grammar pedants, need to get a grip. Rude? Me? It’s time to update our ideas on civility | Nosheen Iqbal 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Novels wouldn’t be bulks to trudge through or badges of honor to pin to pedants’ chests. Bring back the serialized novel 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z “Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men,” which runs through June 14, provides plenty of nourishment for “Mad Men” pedants. Spring Is So Close You Can Almost Taste It 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Take, for example, the keyboard symbol most overused by pedants everywhere: “*”, which is used to correct someone rather than respond to what that person is actually saying. So your a pedant? It's nothing to be proud of 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The insufferable pedant is “ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.” On Twitter, Too Much Information, Not Enough Knowledge That people are pedants and other people like poking pendants. How to create a successful meme 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z But the actor, best known for playing Dr. Frasier Crane on both Cheers and Frasier, is actually a rather convincing and aggressive pedant. Kelsey Grammer Is Correcting Everyone's Grammar On Twitter 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Theatre critics are seldom called pedants for analysing how a stage effect is achieved. Deconstructing Jimmy Carr is no joke 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Someone is trying to point out that children seeking asylum are facing a crisis in care in Australia, but the pedant’s response is a shallow one. So your a pedant? It's nothing to be proud of 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The only people that care are number pedants; gaming is about the game. The Xbox One Could Rise To The Top, If Microsoft Does One Thing 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z So, what of my facial expression, I hear the pedants cry? My David Cameron selfie doesn't make me a hypocrite 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z For others, it is a series of archaic rules beloved of pedants, bearing little relation to how people really communicate. The people who hate other people's bad grammar 2013-05-13T08:58:14Z Can I be one of the 1,057 pedants to point out that lent finishes on Palm Sunday rather than at Easter? The Fiver 2013-04-02T15:19:11Z There is nary a badly spelt text message or casual misuse of “ATM machine” in conversation that goes unchecked these days by someone quickly justifying their intervention with the words, “Oh, I’m a pedant.” So your a pedant? It's nothing to be proud of 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z May I be one of 1,057 science fiction pedants to gently suggest that perhaps it's not so much Chandler but Douglas Adams who evidently plagiarised the Fiver's tea-timely style. The Fiver 2013-02-27T16:45:44Z Now that the Fiver's bestowing letter prizes again, surely it's time to impose letter penalties for readers who incorrectly predict that their letter will be joined by 1,056 other pedants? The Fiver 2013-02-19T16:25:47Z Never mind referencing decanting liquid nitrogen, what about the Fiver's use of a 'tin hat' as protection against attacks from pedants? The Fiver: Fine Fried Chicken Establishments Around Loftus Road 2013-02-01T16:21:26Z Perhaps because only pedants ever called it RIM. The company formerly known as RIM: BounceBack or ByeBye? 2013-01-31T16:02:49Z It is usually attributed to Keynes, but some pedants say the first recorded version was uttered by Paul Samuelson, the Nobel laureate economist who happens to be Mr. Summers’s uncle. Way of the World: A Top Hawk Gets Dovish on Deficit 2013-01-24T18:30:07Z Fiver pedants can send me their email addresses and I can send them some real student work to grade. The Fiver 2013-01-15T15:55:51Z After the debate, the infantile pedants at Fox News were debating whether an act of "terror" was the same as a "terrorist attack." Viewpoint: A Myopic Presidential Race Without Heart 2012-10-18T17:05:35Z To pre-empt the pedants, I realise that Mourinho isn't actually in the dictionary, but what if we were to define it as an urban phrase – to 'do a Mourinho'? The Fiver 2012-08-15T15:04:15Z So if you’re an aspiring pedant, you can choose to celebrate July 22 as Pi Day and March 14 as Not Quite as Close to Pi Day. How Much Pi Do You Need? 2012-07-21T19:15:00.227Z Alléno is not a pedant, though, and is quite prepared to utilize the best products from outside the region, as well. In Search Of Paris Terroir 2012-06-25T05:00:00Z On the other hand, how vapid would seem to them the explanation, more literal but less emotional, of a "Talib" pedant or a frigid grammarian. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Likewise the colours of “sanguine” and “tenn�” brought in by the pedants to bring the tinctures to the mystical number of nine may be disregarded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z And if some solemn pedant accused us of supplying the child with false information, we would simply tell him he knew nothing about children. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z He fully believed that he was refuting the pedants who believe in the inevitable action of the law of gravitation, when he talked of holding a stone in his hand. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z If, on the other hand, we hold our own, and light the fire that shall burn up these cold-blooded pedants l� bas, then, M. le Vicomte--I shall have a word to say to you. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable.” The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Abuse may lead the militant Impressionist to an impasse of assertive agnosticism as pedantic in its way as the lucubrations of the most literary pedant in paint. Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day 2012-03-29T02:00:13.340Z What do the physicists, the chemists, the learned pedants in office need, then, to arouse them from their torpor and make them shake their ears and open their eyes? Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z His pedants are quite as tiresome as they would be in real life, if each successively held you by the button. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The man of routine, the mere pedant, the mere deprecator of mistakes, asks always for a precedent. Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z The coxcomb criticises the dress of the clown, as the pedant cavils at the bad grammar of the illiterate. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Compared with the lord of the ascendent for the time being, Shakspeare is commonplace, and Milton a pedant, a little insipid or so. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z A learned pedant who laughs at the possible comes very near being an idiot. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Of course it would be a very doubtful kind of merit which commanded the admiration of literary prigs or pedants; but that is not the merit of George Eliot. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z A pedant he certainly was, a stickler forPg 60 the letter—incredibly so, especially when one considered the liberties he took when he played the same works! Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z He sings, even under the fingers of pedants, and to-day is butchered in the classroom to make a holiday for theorists. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Of course no one but a pedant draws out his teaching in this laboured logical form. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z He was neither an empty pedant, nor, all the more, the legal defender of the revolution: he combined a scientific analysis of the Commune with its revolutionary apology. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Haydn, who invented habitually, and who was the contrary of a pedant, found himself much embarrassed, and answered always, 'I have done that because it has a good effect. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z But, every time that He sang, they found Some cherished rule of their pedant school Was killed in his poem's strange, new sound. The Miracle Songs of Jesus 2012-02-19T03:00:16.787Z Mar. Most villainously; like a pedant that keeps a school i' the church.—I have dogg'd him, like his murderer: He does obey every point of the letter that I dropped to betray him. Twelfth Night or, What You Will 2012-02-18T03:00:14.920Z "What will happen to me; to our precious Lamballe; to you; to your shocking pedant of a husband there, who as usual is in cloudland?" The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The scholastic pedant does not see facts beyond his accustomed words. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z But the affectations of the pedants or the sciolists should not be allowed to cast discredit on the fair name of Ignorance. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Paris was a pedant fool Meting beauty by the rule: Pallas? A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z The Briton hates a bore and a pedant. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z The novelist’s ideals become actual to the popular mind; while commonplace truth hides itself among its dry-as-dust records, until some curious antiquary or insistent pedant drags it forth to make a nine days’ wonder. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z He had neither the patience nor the tact for managing loquacious parliamentary pedants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z A policy wonk and a notorious pedant, he surely understands this. Newt Gingrich's Dodgy Attack on Food Stamps 2012-01-19T21:02:21Z In one of his poems Browning describes the steps taken by a reader to banish the memory of a dreary pedant, whose book he had been perusing. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z In her dear Mrs. Pitt's conversation, declared this paragon of pedants, she saw Minerva without the formal owl on her helmet. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Therefore, the pedant, with his general maxims, almost always misses the mark in life, shows himself to be foolish, awkward, useless. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z A kindly old pedant, Fulcher interlards his history with much discourse on geography, zoology and sacred history. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z She shunned the stilted words of the pedant as she conversed to communicate thoughts and principles. Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward 2011-12-24T03:07:54.433Z But his practical father took care that he should grow up a prince, not a pedant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z For this one phrase this pedant, who has otherwise rightly deserved oblivion, has some claim to be remembered. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z When we speak, especially in connection with politics, of doctrinaires, theorists, savants, and so forth, we mean pedants, that is, persons who know the things well in the abstract, but not in the concrete. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z These ideas gained wide acceptance in literary circles and gradually biassed the popular taste to such an extent that learned pedants could boast, like Khalíl b. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z No one, except the most hide-bound of pedants, questioned the existence of the subconscious self, and, if here was an example of an abnormal development of it, still there was nothing to fight shy of. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Outlook.—"A great achievement, nothing less indeed than the rescue of history from the hands of the pedant and the archæologist and its restoration to its true position as a living, emotional art." The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Thus Molière is intelligible as the contemporary of the society of Louis XIV.: in our society of transitions and intermediate stages he would seem an inspired pedant. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z We can esteem the hero who butchers nations, and the pedant who perplexes truth. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Critically annotated editions of the great French writers also came into fashion, and were no longer written by mere pedants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z But the poor pedants could no longer learn, being too heavy, old, and stupid; so they had a rap on the knuckles every day and a whipping on Sundays. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z Scared by the name of pedant, many flee Into pert slang or tedious levity. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Too few suggestions indicate a dry and meager mental habit; when this is joined to great learning, there results a pedant or a Gradgrind. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z It seemed as if all the pedants of France held their classes in her house. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Different stages of culture and a hundred other circumstances will modify these, and nobody but a pedant or religious martinet will care about uniformity. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Vickars did not press his opinions upon Arthur; he was much too wise and gentle to play the pedant. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Sometimes he shows himself the most absurd of pedants. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z Let us follow for a moment in the footsteps of this pedant, whose method, ridiculous as it may seem, has had nevertheless a glorious history, and one which Manzoni himself admired. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Dear me, must everything be understood?" cried the beautiful woman, laughing; "there is the pedant again! On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z There are plenty of pedants and martinets in religion as well as on the parade ground. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Well then, here is your man, a pedant and a fool, a stickler for little trifles, a very child for detail. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Cinna distinguished him at once among the multitude of pedants and commentators with stiffened brains, and soon formed with him an acquaintance which, after a time, was changed into close intimacy, and even into friendship. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z Shakespeare refers to this:— “Like a pedant that Keeps a school i’ the Church.” Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z This person, whom, from the last Book, we know already as Philina's darling, had been want to enact pedants, tutors, and poets,—generally undertaking parts in which any cudgelling or ducking was to be endured. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Albano, all men are still somewhere or other pedants, the good in morality so called, and you especially. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z The Quarterly, as conducted by the acrid and deformed pedant Gifford, had no mercy for opponents: and one of the harshest of its contributors was the virtuous Southey. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z But enough! the pedant neither approves nor understands me; and the better teacher says himself: enough! The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z Yet this may do more to discredit him with the pedants than what seems to me dangerous credulity in larger questions. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z The classical pedant had, however, the sagacity to perceive that they have provided us with “the richest ore.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z "No," said Albano, "so soon as a man once pursues and desires anything right earnestly and exclusively, then he is called a coxcomb or a pedant." Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Those who attack the great poets whose works do not accord with the rules of Aristotle are called by Bruno stupid pedants and beasts. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Yes, * * * is an insufferable pedant, but I don't at all mind his pedantry. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z And Duruy is probably right, because on these matters writers are too often pedants, who, if once committed to a theory, will not accept the most convincing evidence that they have been mistaken. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Cheke was no formal pedant; with an enlarged notion of the vernacular language, he aimed to restore the English of his day to 383 what then he deemed to be its purity. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z More estimable than these, but still people who must not be allowed to hamper the operations of the Liberal party, are the constitutional pedant and the rigid doctrinaire. Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z In the first dialogue of the Eroici Furori, published at London in 1585, while Bruno was visiting England, he expresses his contempt for the mere pedants who judge poets by the rules of Aristotle's Poetics. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z "End?" said the rector, with the authority of the clergyman breaking through the crust of the pedant. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z When I delivered my Hibbert Lectures, I believed that I could dismiss it in a few words as merely a kind of subsidiary chapter added to the religion of the State by pedants and scholars. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z His education, though it fitted him for Platonic discussions with Ficino and rendered him an amateur of humanistic culture, had failed to make a pedant of him. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier a brute; and every man, disagreeable. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z "No," said Malzin, "not the least of a pedant, but a hot head with a heart of gold, and when duty is concerned, he is just like his father." 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The anti-chamber was filled with ladies of every rank, magi of all colors, judges, merchants, officers, and pedants, and all of them complained of the minister. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Astro-theology was not a mere learned scheme of allegorised science, the plaything of a school of pedants; it exercised a considerable influence upon the religion of Babylonia and upon the history of its development. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z “Remind them of the applicable rules, and invite them to respect the law by uncovering themselves, or leaving the venue,” a flier recommends all would-be pedants. Aux Armes! French Told to Enforce Burqa Ban 2011-03-04T05:48:39Z I wish sincerely, Tom, that we may have seen the last of a teaching that for one whom it made accomplished and well-informed, converted fifty into pedants, and left a hundred dunces! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z He knows how pedants hoodwink people, how priests act the hypocrite, how physicians act the rake, how lawyers peculate. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z He never used him as a lay figure on which he might display the drapery of a pedant. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z I wish the dragon had him," muttered King �etes to himself, "and the four-footed pedant, his schoolmaster, into the bargain. A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys 2011-02-25T03:01:12.793Z Mr Shaw allows his classical amateurship and respectable strenuosity of character, but denounces his work, with a substratum of truth, as that of a “blathering, unreadable pedant.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Let incurable pedants, crammed full of bourgeois democratic and parliamentary prejudices, shake their heads gravely over our Soviets, let them deplore the fact that we have no direct elections. A Letter to American Workingmen 2011-02-12T03:00:32.177Z This "learned pedant," as she had called him this very morning, was revealing himself in strange ways. A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z "He talks pleasantly, and nothing of a pedant, as I half dreaded he might be." The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z So may you come into the true Kingdom of Culture, whose gates never swing open to the pedant or the bigot. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z That was enough for the uniformed pedants who tried her, and for their civilian subordinates. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z IX, 79. which have been rendered as follows: Despiteful pedant, why dost me pursue, Thou head detested by the younger crew? Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Assuming that the finally takes place at Kempton on Saturday, the fact that the 2010 renewal was staged in 2011 will soon be of major interest only to trivia freaks and pedants. Delay will give Saturday's King George the build-up it deserves 2011-01-10T16:48:01Z In five words – or five words, a comma and a full stop for the pedants out there – José Mourinho summed it up perfectly. Lucky Real Madrid win ? and Cani throws water bottle at Jos? Mourinho 2011-01-10T14:35:45Z And culture can be built on the bare rudiments of education, at which pedagogues and pedants will sneer. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z A pedant writes: "Of course we want free-flowing action which turns its nose up to rules and regulations on the pitch — but surely the same doesn't go for the page?" writes Alex Smith. Premier League: Arsenal v Manchester City - as it happened 2011-01-05T18:53:38Z If pedantry a mental blemish be At all times outlawed by society, If 'gainst a pedant all the world inveighs, Shall pass unchecked in woman pedant's ways? Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z He had heard young ladies spoken of rather contemptibly as "pedants" and "blue-stockings." Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z The nine times wise branded Plato as a shield bearer of Christianity, Horace as a pedant, Augustine as a church saint, Jesus as the Son of God. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z "Nay," said Doubletongue, who stood somewhat in awe of the pedant, "I know no harm in relating what I have just heard from neighbour Suddle of our town." William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z "Or to give her the full edit: 'Check it out in the Oxford University Press Style Guide or the Chicago Manual of Style' Takes a pedant to know a pedant, I guess." Premier League: Arsenal v Manchester City - as it happened 2011-01-05T18:53:38Z And, above all, that conceited amorous old pedant should suffer for it, for he, of course, had set the whole train going against him! Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z The straightforward simplicity of the young lady whom he wished to prove a pedant or a "blue" baffled him, and made him feel ashamed of his satire. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z The language, oscillating before her time between French and German, formless, corrupt and invertebrate, took shape and comeliness, which none of the male pedants could give it, from the impassioned hands of a woman. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z In this school he took his degree, and which all the learning of the ancients, all the pedants of the antique world would have failed in teaching him. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Why is it that a man, who in himself is both wise and entertaining, always becomes both a pedant and a bore when he makes an after-dinner speech?” Lola 2010-12-24T03:00:35.720Z "Can I be the first of 1,057 pedants to point out that Steve Bruce couldn't keep, or even approach, 'an admirably straight face' without major surgery?" The Fiver 2010-11-24T16:31:00Z The first is to satisfy pedants: what, once and for all, is his name? Passenger or driving force? The enigma of Mikel John Obi 2010-10-02T23:09:00Z So we can infer from this that the 1,057 pedants are in fact one and the same person, at least genetically. Barely Out Of Nappies 2010-09-22T15:16:00Z I meant nothing but in the way of caution to our good neighbour," said the pedant, "and whose tongue would be much the better for an occasional bridle, whilst the unrighteous are in sight. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z The pedants can't be operating on a closed list as he suggests because of the lack of the definite article. The Fiver 2010-09-21T15:37:00Z It occurred to me recently that many of the 'may I be the 1st of 1,057 pedants ...' claims don't actually result in pedantry, just the recitation of boring facts. The Fiver 2010-09-17T14:23:00Z Can I be the first mathematical pedant to point out that x/0 does not equal infinity. The Fiver 2010-09-08T15:00:00Z Can I be 1,057th pedant to point out that contrary to what was reported in yesterday's Fiver, silicon is not a heavy metal but a relatively light metalloid. The Fiver: Bob Nudd, and Hamburger Phone 2010-07-29T15:35:00Z On my word," continued the pedant, "these Jesuits are fearful fellows, and will murder us all in the end. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Can I be the first of the 1,057 Leicester City-supporting pedants to write in to complain about you giving Titus Bramble immortality as the own goal, comedy defending machine. The Fiver: Standards That Must Be Maintained 2010-07-23T15:34:00Z And for all you furious pedants and hecklers. Hussey's magnificent late show sets up England showdown 2010-05-14T15:17:00Z "Has it occurred to the pedants among your readership that Txiki may actually have a speech impediment?" The Fiver: The Etymology Of Capuchin Monkeys 2010-04-19T16:31:00Z I know I'm sounding like one of the clichéd and dull 1,057 pedants but why is it called 'Fiver Letters' when it is patently obvious that you are getting this correspondence by email? The Fiver 2010-04-14T15:28:00Z Long boots take the place of greaves and steel shoes, and early in the 16th century the military pedants are heard to bewail the common laying aside of other pieces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Golfers, of all pedants who infest earth or purgatory, are the most intolerable. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 So is that of a pedant universally, how muchsoever of a male he may be. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams He was also a pedant who concealed from himself his own baseness by a scrupulous devotion to ancient forms even in religion. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Let him then ask himself "Is it possible that this learned pedant can also have been the author of English poems which King Alfred—surely no mean judge—thought best of all he knew?" Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn The distinguished foreign scholar, however, considered Linacre as an enthusiast in recondite studies, but no mere pedant. Catholic Churchmen in Science I was heartily tired of the classical pedant; but there are pedants, ma'am, in all situations and professions. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Most of the parts had a strong local flavor, the pedant, for example, hailing from Bologna, the overly shrewd merchant, from Venice. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors I have never met one who was a pedant, a vain pretender or a superficial scholar. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution It is to solve the enigma of Dante's works, by imagining for him a character in which it is hard to say which predominates, the pedant, mountebank, or infidel. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. Divinity and English meant more to Mr. Neech than a mere hour of Greek Testament and a pedant's fiddling with the text of Lycidas. Sinister Street, vol. 1 I am sorry, very sorry, indeed, to place you amongst the "pedants;" but truth, my dear sir—my dear shade, compels me to do so. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 How far he stood from the prejudices of the typical pedant may be seen in the passionate love he showed throughout his life for national music, especially that of Hungary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" He must have appeared like a man without education or courtesy, a moralizing pedant. The Children of the World Whoever works with symbols only is a pedant, a hypocrite, or a bungler. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 I am neither a Pecksniff nor a pedant, a dotard nor a wet blanket; in your company, I feel as young as the youngest among you. John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced But it is the pitiful pedant's plea to urge their study because Greek is difficult. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Friend of Colet and of More, Genial wit and learned scholar, Never pedant, prig, or bore. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 True, your most august Highness," replied the pedant with grimace intended to be polite, "but those fables are intended for the vulgar, and not for the cultured classes, to which your Imperial Highness belongs. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs Perystell, like all his tribe, is a pedant, and begins by asking for two years, and I won't say how many thousand pounds. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) Lovers of genial nature were charmed, pedants almost frightened. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Thus would I live, with no dull pedants curs'd, Sure, of all blockheads, Scholars are the worst. The Man of Taste The latter cannot carry the process to such a great extent, but microsophic pedants have not shown in what respect the methods differ only in degree. The Speech of Monkeys She may be ever so learned, she is never a pedant. Rambles in Womanland This would have satisfied the people, who were only anxious to score off the troublesome philosopher and pedant. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy His immediate literary masters, the Greeks of the Alexandrian school, were a coterie of pedants; it would be idle to claim that he remained unaffected by their pedantry. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII "No, Your Majesty," replied Irma, eagerly, "Hippocrates is a thoroughly noble man; somewhat of a pedant, indeed, but too good and too wise to do anything like that." On the Heights A Novel The moral Sages Think that if anyone holds wisdom, they do; But not all sense is stored in pedant's pages. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 June 7, 1890 To all these slow-brained, bewildered pedants, he had but the answer, “Whether He be a sinner or no, I know not; one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.” The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I Half rake, half pedant he presented at no time a pleasant appearance, but that day he was as wonderfully decked out as if he had copied Holbein's picture of the plague-doctor. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Words once expressive of the strongest faith were either used to utter the bigotry of narrow pedants, or were adopted only to be explained away into insipid commonplace. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII And such is the advantage of a classical education, that he mumbled a line from a Greek pedant, another from a Roman bore. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes Consequently the ones who fall short of their divine duty are the degenerate nobles, the curmudgeons, the misers, the skin-flints, the pedants, the—" Mylio—"God's blood! The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades And Chapman would always have been a blathering unreadable pedant, like Landor, in spite of his classical amateurship and respectable strenuosity of character. The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded To-morrow," added he, "there will be long drawn faces in the Church Council, when they receive Erastus' answer, for the learned pedant is not sparing of his pepper and salt. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle "And who asks the author to introduce all this philosophy?" said the pedant. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Aristotle is represented with a hideous exterior, face and body lean, hair neglected, and the air of a pedant exhausted by study. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 I have never seen or heard another music drama which so completely bowled over its first audiences, whether they were street-car conductors or musical pedants. Interpreters Caroline Neuber was the one woman in the world to carry out, to improve and broaden, the pedant's plans. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) "Ecoles says he's a confounded pedant," said the other; "that he wanted to cap Horace with him at breakfast." That Boy Of Norcott's In Sartor Resartus Carlyle rescues science from the grip of the pedant and restores it to the poet. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series Rather talk it to anybody else,—far rather to the pedants and worldlings who have fooled away their common-sense by burying thought under book-dust, or by hiding nature under shams and artifices. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 And this was surely in the poet's mind when, in later years, he talked of a "pedant who keeps a school i' the church." St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks A pedant of a fellow called Picrochole has recently come on the scene who wants to make a bankrupt of science in order to do a good turn to the Church. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels He would be taken for a pedant or a man of bad breeding. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things The son a little pedant in us, i.e. Priests, Women, and Families Some persons are actually driven away from the most entertaining writers because they happen to be what are called classics, because pedants boast of having read them. The Intellectual Life The way to find a story is to look for a story, forgetting all that pedants have written and failures practiced. The Technique of Fiction Writing All that went before was either the vague, formless, unsymmetrical production of popular mood and fancy, or the dry formula-work of musical pedants. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. You see he has a warm heart, human sympathies; that, in short, he is every inch a man—not a scholastic pedant, nor an intellectual bigot, nor an emasculated priest. The London Pulpit He enjoyed the formidable reputation of being well-read; but it is only just to explain that he was well read chiefly in the archaic sense—in the bores and pedants of antiquity. Eden An Episode The pedants have a habit of considering these genial old artists as in some mysterious way their own private property, for do not the pedants live by expounding them? The Intellectual Life She began at nine years old, for I have remarked that it is not learning much, but learning late, which makes pedants. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Have you never read that work of the royal pedant?” Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion Thomas James Mathias, the author of The Pursuits of Literature, was a much nearer approach to the pedant pure and simple. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Now, when an educated man is not a pedant he can in discoursing about nothing at all exert a very palpable influence. Eden An Episode How clumsy and rude is the most learned pedant in comparison with the refinement of this delicate organization! The Intellectual Life You, an old, worn-out pedant, to think of marrying that beautiful young creature! The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II This place was filled with hypocrites, pedants, freethinkers, and prating politicians; with a rabble of those who have only titles to make them great men. The Tatler, Volume 3 The accounts of the Jesuit Del Rio and the Dominican Michaëlis are the absurd productions of two credulous and silly pedants. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Unwieldy pedant, let thy awkward muse, With censures praise, with flatteries abuse. Old and New London Volume I She knew the value of varied information in making a woman, not a pedant, but a sympathetic, companionable being; and such she was to almost every class of mind. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings He hated the petty quibbles of political legists and pedants—their dilemmas, and metaphysical distinctions, and catastrophes. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 Schoolmen and pedants held up to the admiration of the people the heroes of the feudal times and the advantages of the system they administered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" The peevish pedant treated the matter as he would have treated a rebellion at school. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages He had none of the pedant's contempt for ordinary life, none of the æsthete's contempt for action as a "little vulgar," and no desire to make of intellectual pursuits an end in themselves. The History of Freedom But, if they are not inspired with the notion of leadership and duty, then with all their Latin and Greek and science they are but pedants, trimmers, opportunists. Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 She agreed that a female pedant is at best a ridiculous character, and that retired graces, personal accomplishments, and useful domestic acquirements, are best adapted to the destiny of woman. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew If we again En goodness thrive, And the dead saints become alive, Then pedants bald and parchments brown May claim her blood for London town. Poems Besides his business of pedant, his tyranny over the children he chastised at will, over nuns not less at his disposal, there remained within a hard bottom of domineering jealousy. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages He has not the professional taint of the German pedant. German Problems and Personalities Philautus does not retort that Euphues is a pedant, which proves him to be very good tempered and a perfect travelling companion. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare What are these but rank pedants? and yet these are the men who value themselves most on their exemption from the pedantry of the colleges. Talkers With Illustrations The world will have another washing day; The decadents decay; the pedants pall; And H.G. Poems He was neither a pedant nor a bigot. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Scratch the sentimentalism and æstheticism of a German, and you come upon a pedant. Ivory Apes and Peacocks That ancient author, who Bentley afterwards asserted was only “some dreaming pedant, with his elbow on his desk.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Shallow pedants cry up one another much more than men of solid and useful learning. Talkers With Illustrations Oh, I know he’s a good fellow—you needn’t frown—an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) It was the happy period of the doctrinaire, of the pedant, and of the student of 1688 and the pupils of Si�y�s. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe No knowledge can come out of this straw-splitting in vacuo; and certainly no art out of this indecent pedant's symbolism: all things are turned to dusty, dirty lumber. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion But you must not forget that the magnificent indifference and ignorance of our race makes these pedants quite harmless. General Bramble The worst kind of pedants among learned men are such as are naturally endued with a very small share of common sense, and have read a great number of books without taste or distinction. Talkers With Illustrations Blas� pedants often call Haydn's music "tame"; we might as well apply that adjective to the antics of a sportive kitten. Music: An Art and a Language Always preaching, always moralizing, always acting the pedant, you give them twenty worthless ideas when you think you are giving them one good one. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts The pedant's endeavours to make a philosopher of his child are sufficiently ludicrous. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The practical person, the wary pedant, and the supercritical will scoff at this, but let it stand. Dickens' London The Spectator, in No. 105, gives an illustration of a pedant in Will Honeycomb. Talkers With Illustrations Fielding has an odd touch of the pedant. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) But recollect our agreement; if you are a mere pedant, there is no use in your reading what I write. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts After such a display of misapplied learning it is refreshing to meet with the common sense of one who was a greater scholar than any of these pedants. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare The pedants will be down upon us for speaking of Lord Bacon. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The state pedant is wrapped up in news, and lost in politics. Talkers With Illustrations Set him to simmer for two years in a popular constituency, and serve him up, a chattering pedant of twenty-four, at Westminster. Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. The schoolmaster is a pedant; he has probably lectured to his boys on the theory of humor, and he smiles in turn at the smile of superiority on the face of the shopkeeper. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures The one was the labour of the pedant theorist, the other was rather the improvisation of the theatre manager. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare The pedants, the heralds, and all the rest of the tribe of technical fanatics, rejoice to mouth "Lord Verulam." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) But when he is a man below mediocre—a pedant—he is insupportable. Talkers With Illustrations Any one who questions our triumphant progress is tabooed for a pedant. Another Sheaf It is monstrously absurd to sacrifice our best years in stuffing so many facts into the brain, in order to avoid being laughed at by a few thin-minded pedants as an ignoramus. The Curse of Education Therein he had spoken of “noble irregularity,” and censured the “graver pedants” of the age. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare My father was quite satisfied with the letters I conveyed from Professor Von Slammerbogen; my mother delighted to receive me in any character, whether that of pedant or prodigal. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 ‘The Universities do but make pedants, and I intend to breed him a man of business.’ Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Perhaps not in your pedant's style, O great contrapuntist! Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History But, to be candid, how can activity and dash be expected from generals who have at their head, a shallow brained pedant like Halleck? Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 That is why our civilisation produces so many bigots, so many philistines, so many pedants and prigs. The Book of Khalid He binds his music because he is a pedant and a prig, and can’t help it; a bad fellow to get on with. The First Violin A Novel It is like a troublesome pedant one is forced to hear, who always growls, but never touches us, and frequently like D———, and such like venerable impertinents, lose the time they employ in predication. Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness A careless observer, if questioned on the apparition he had met with, would have replied very briefly, that it was the figure of an old pedant dressed in a suit of rusty black. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 But his work was not so well done; Syv was something of a pedant, and unfortunately either too critical or not critical enough. Grimhild's Vengeance Three Ballads He had afterwards a pleasant chat with Freeman, 'not a bad fellow at all,' though obviously a 'terrible pedant.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Abroad and here, traitors and some pedants on formulas make a noise concerning the violation of formulas. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 A philosophy made for professors is apt to be a philosophy for pedants. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies I am not, however, on the present occasion arguing with pedants. The Empire of the East He was a scholar and a pedant, and concerned himself but little about his only child, whose fortune was inherited from her mother. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney When we find learned mole-eyed pedants sneering at fox-hunters, we may call the Brocklesby kennels and the Pelham Pillar as witnesses on the side of the common sense of English field sports. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid "Quondam" was rather a pity, perhaps; it sounds pedantic, and the Warden was no pedant, unless he wanted to snub people. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate The bulk of knowledge of specific characters and the necessity of specialisation bade fair to make every species-monger a dry and narrow pedant; and the pedants quarrelled about the characters and limits of their species. Life of Charles Darwin In the midst of his own circle of fops and silly women, he utters his shallow conceits with all the pompous assurance of a pedant. Public School Education His father’s friend was a fine old man, with nothing about him savouring of the pedant. Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant She must not be a pedant or a scold but must know enough of books to distinguish between a volume of history and a novel; and have sufficient spirit to prevent being imposed upon. A Portrait of Old George Town Let pedants and philosophasters bury themselves in the writings of the dead, the good man prefers to know something of the living, and he finds it in the daily, weekly, and monthly press. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 It is to solve the enigma of Dante's works by imagining for him a character in which it is hard to say which predominates, the pedant, mountebank, or infidel. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 He had already begun The Faërie Queene, much to the pedant Harvey's disgust; and he dabbled in the fashionable absurdity of classical metres, like his inferiors. A History of Elizabethan Literature From a prosaic pedant I can almost feel myself becoming an ecstatical hermit, and my soul getting ready to 'smooth itself out a long cramped scroll. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk It is hard for an Englishman to be a pedant; it is not easy for a German to be anything else. Appearances Being Notes of Travel The mere fact that the kind of scrupulous artistry advocated by these pedants of "style" is a kind that can be defined in words at all writes its own condemnation upon it. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations In these days women may be thoughtful and well read, without being stigmatized as "blues" or pedants. Stories of Authors, British and American Her dark brows clouded even more and the warm colouring of her face went white; she again resembled the fury who had lectured the unfortunate pedant in the arm-chair. Ringfield A Novel Death, the dry pedant, spares neither the rose nor the thistle, nor does he forget the solitary blade of grass in the distant waste. Pearls of Thought It was an age “rich in scholars, copious in pedants, but poor in genius, and barren of strong thinkers.” Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Where are those ignorant fellows, those pedants, those ill-bred men that did not wait for me? Laboulaye's Fairy Book After announcing himself the son of Jupiter, the whole East, except his mother, Aristotle, and a few Athenian pedants, believed this to be true. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe Not only so, but added to impatience and anger there seemed something like repugnance, disgust, directed at the miserable pedant who under the fires of womanly wrath blinked and smiled, but had no defence ready. Ringfield A Novel I do not say that dear Casey’s estimate had the arid accuracy of the pedant, but she had a rich and helpful imagination. Marge Askinforit He seemed to them some sort of wise pedant; they did not need him and did not seek his society, he avoided them. A Nobleman's Nest He was a pedagogue, perhaps something of a pedant, a hot partisan, a special pleader; but few lives can show a more dignified and noble end. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets Aldus “the younger,” was a precocious scholar, of the pedant type, and under him the traditions of the family rapidly fell. Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography He found no exception to the rule except when his wanderings took him to some remote part of Scotland, where, he assured me, the “braying of the socialist pedants had not yet been heard.” The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly "All our philosophic pedants, all our sons of science know Not a whit more than that dullard knew a million years ago." Deerfoot in The Mountains The following chapters, which aim at summing up the essentials of Astronomy in twelve lessons for amateurs, will not make astronomers or mathematicians of my readers—much less prigs or pedants. Astronomy for Amateurs He was a pedant, and lectured the king on his duty like a schoolmaster. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration The fool! the hypocrite! the pedant! well said, wise Catiline, 'that it matters not much whether one listen to his friends, so he listen well to his enemies!' The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 Little David Lester, the pedant, the mother's boy, who looked eighteen but was probably older, pouted, and his heavy lips in his thin face moved. The Planet Strappers To this age James is an awkward, ludicrous pedant. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography He did not like a mere smattering of literary chatter; he did not like to be called a pedant; but he knew, if any man did, what literature was and what was knowledge. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine His constitutional diffidence caused him to shun society; but he devoted his leisure to books, and was an erudite scholar, without ever mounting the pompous stilts of the pedant. Fairy Fingers A Novel A pedant did not alarm them, even though he might be old; when young he was made much of, and it was rumoured that Henri Mauperin was a great favourite. Renée Mauperin ‘If I am a pedant at home,’ he said, ‘at least I am- 282 - as little as possible a pedant out of doors.’ Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre Seize the old pedant! away with him! let him join his noble brethren! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The pedant may trace the fashion back to the Hobby-horse of the Eighties, or, in a further access of pedantry to the Germ of the early Fifties. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Like the many other charges of plagiarism brought against Napoleon by pedants, this one overlooks the difference between mediocrity and genius in the use of materials. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) In his epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious; but in the prologue before the queen, the pedant has found his way, with Minerva, Perseus, and Andromeda. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II It is academic, a thing on which scribes may lecture, while the voice of the scholastic pedant with blatant repetitions overpowers the living, authoritative voice within the soul. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 Nobody that ever lived was less of a pedant, academic don, or loud Sir Oracle. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch Where in this is the pompous pedant who is so commonly supposed to be the writer of Johnson's books? Dr. Johnson and His Circle He was soon to be joined by Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, null in judgment, a pedant without clearness of thought or vision, but gifted with a copious command of all the rhetoric of sectional hate. A History of the United States I know that he is very gentlemanlike, and is neither a coxcomb nor a pedant, which is refreshing in these days.” Valerie Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance After some years they become scientists, perhaps pedants, but not soldiers. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War The pedant wishes to apply a code of Median rigidity to correct the barbarous freedom of a language to which scholarship has never applied itself. Dr. Johnson and His Circle He had in fact the temper of a pedant, a pedant's conceit, a pedant's love of theories, and a pedant's inability to bring his theories into any relation with actual facts. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Young Stanhope, according to his own account, was an absolute pedant at the university. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II The early stages of this most wise and needful reform were met with much opposition by lawyers and pedants. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I But Elizabeth was far as yet from being a mere pedant. History of the English People, Volume IV Fritz, on the removal of his Parents, was given over as boarder to his actual Teacher, the rigorous pedant Jahn; and remained yet two years at the Latin school in Ludwigsburg. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works So Sophomore, being in morals a pedant and in intellect a bully, accused me of appropriating the book, and offered me a dollar if I would restore it to him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 It has been well said of him that he never became either a pedant or a doctrinaire. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation It is an old trick of the schools to rouse a pedant to desperate and distracted self-contradiction by quietly imitating everything he says. Paul Patoff There are pedants and bigots who insist that the jug must be stoppered with a corncob. Pipefuls The impassioned pedant has written it in heavy prose smothering its brightness in the dull web of his own thought. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice The ambiguity produced by the confusion between these two forms of the Relative is not a mere fiction of pedants; it is practically serious. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition He had no difficulty in obtaining from James, as great a pedant as himself, a grant of Acadia, which he named Nova Scotia. Canada Idleness, therefore, cannot be urged against him; nor does this imposing display of learning indicate a pedant. John Lyly The genuineness of this winning little letter could never be doubted except by the most dryasdust of pedants. The Books of the New Testament That which pedants of that time and this time would have called the sentimentalism of Dickens was really simply the detached sanity of Dickens. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens No modern critic is likely to waste his time in framing rules and canons, which can be so easily handled by the pedant and stand condemned by the first great man who defies them. Personality in Literature His genius was too large and energetic to move at ease in the narrow garment prescribed as the poet’s wear by the dullards and the pedants who had followed Boileau. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Paris was a pedant fool, Meting beauty by a rule: Pallas? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century But common sense often goes about with a pedant's strut, and is something to avoid on occasions. The Lure of the Mask Then the pedants got after me, said I didn't conform to academic formulas, advised me to steep myself in tradition. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Rechberg plays well, and likes his game; but he is in Whist, as are all Germans, a thorough pedant. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General But when you come to read his poetry you find that our Bayard had in him a strong dash of the pedant and a powerful leaven of the euphuist. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation He who is not in some measure a pedant, though he may be a wise, cannot be a very happy man.’ Obiter Dicta Second Series He repeated the question in Italian, at the same time feeling like a pedant airing his accomplishments. The Lure of the Mask He would be only a pedant who would take nothing because he could not get everything at once. Georgina's Reasons What are these but rank pedants? and yet these are the men who value themselves most on their exemption from the pedantry of colleges. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Buchanan, when asked how he came to make a pedant of his royal pupil, answered that it was the best he could make of him. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Possibly not; but then we are surely not content that our authors should be pedants in order that they may be happy and devoted. Obiter Dicta Second Series Knowing nothing either of Latin or Greek, they were beneath a gentleman’s notice, fit only for parsons and pedants; and he was too patriotic to cast a thought away upon French. Rattlin the Reefer Boldly I venture on a naval scene, Nor fear the critics’ frown, the pedants’ spleen. Newton Forster The Merchant Service The state pedant is wrapt up in news, and lost in politics. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I It was oftener placed on the skull of a pedant than wreathed on the head of a man of genius. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 They were no timorous pedants, who shook and made homilies when sabres flashed and cannon roared. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry That matters very little, except to a pedant and a rhetorician. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. He was to study literature and appreciate art, though he was carefully to avoid the excess which makes the pedant or the virtuoso. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The worst kind of pedants among learned men are such as are naturally endowed with a very small share of common sense, and have read a great number of books without taste or distinction.... The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Dacier, a poetical pedant after all, was asked who was the greater poet, Homer or Virgil? he honestly answered, "Homer by a thousand years!" Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 The dismissal, hereafter, of incompetent men would be a painful, but—if pedants, dunces, and cheats were crammed into the chairs—an unavoidable task. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry The kingdom was happy enough till the pedants got into it. A Hungarian Nabob Only the stranger does not express himself in that way, but says, "What an admirable pedant he is, to be sure." By the Christmas Fire It is a proverb that James I. was a Scot and a pedant; it is hardly sufficiently noted that Charles I. also was not a little of a pedant, being very much of a Scot. A Short History of England Some writers, usually pedants, imagine that they can supply, by the labours of industry, the deficiencies of nature. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Sir Oracle, a dictatorial prig; a dogmatic pedant. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Burchard must have seemed to the Borgias a harmless pedant; for if not, would they have permitted him to behold and describe their doings and yet live? Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day I wish the dragon had him," muttered King Æetes to himself, "and the four-footed pedant, his schoolmaster, into the bargain. Myths and Legends of All Nations Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources The enthusiastic pedant, with his narrow understanding, his thin purism, and his idyllic sentimentalism, found that the summoning archangel of his paradise proved to be a ruffian with a pike. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre Blind pedants:—“Why, surely the same power which makes you a Parliament, that, and something more, made me a Protector!” Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History They will gladden your sight after looking at those dreary pedants who are like a flock of wise ravens. The Argonauts The originality of the great musician or painter consists in just such transcendence of accepted formulae; this is why he invariably encounters opposition and obloquy from the learned conventional pedants of his time. A Short History of Greek Philosophy The Fisher trims the hazel wand, The Crab may tame a shrew, The Birch becomes the pedant's hand, But Bows are made of yew. Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The pedant, cursed with the ambition to be a ruler of men, is a curious study. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre Which it was, and no one could look upon it without keen delight, unless he were a horticultural pedant in whom the appreciation of nature had been killed by parterres. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers In a few years the girl he had married would be a plain and prickly little pedant—ill-bred besides—and he knew it. Marriage à la mode But," she continued, "this man was not a mere bookworm nor a pedant, though Le Brun, whose voice was the voice of the Sorbonne then, prophesied a red hat for him. Orrain A Romance Try to judge the great beliefs that have swayed mankind by their inner logic or their empirical solidity and you stand forever, a dull pedant, apart from the interests of men. A Preface to Politics The logical pedant who imagines that men cannot possibly act on inconsistent and even contradictory motives only betrays his ignorance of life. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Knowledge is indeed esteemed, but only according to its use and applicability to the wants of life; so that a practical tanner is there worth more than a learned pedant. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II You would merely regard me as a pedant with some unimportant theory about vegetable cells. The Napoleon of Notting Hill That his writing has quality and flavour none but a pure pedant would deny. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson There was nothing of the scholarly prig or pedant about him. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine? The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem Mr. Longfellow is not a scholar in the German sense of the word--that is to say, he is no pedant, but he certainly is a scholar in another and perhaps a higher sense. Modern American Prose Selections The monks are stigmatized as pedants who would destroy the joy of life on earth, who are avaricious, dissolute and the breeders of eternal dissensions and squabbles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" But, wrangling pedant, this is The patroness of heavenly harmony; Then give me leave to have prerogative, And when in music we have spent an hour, Your lecture shall have leisure for as much. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries Martinus Scriblerus was the name of an imaginary pedant—a precursor and relative of Dr. Dryasdust—whose memoirs and works were to form a satire upon stupidity in the guise of learning. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series They are a part of education, and of infinitely more value, Than all their pedant discipline e'er knew. Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies In him, education had produced the typical pedant, a pedant of Cyclopean muscularity, perhaps, but nevertheless a pedant. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Apart from all political considerations, the supremacy of this nation in Europe will be a social calamity, unless France, like vanquished Greece, introduces the amenities of society among these pedants, squires, and martinets. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris She gave up serious studies, to which she had applied herself, and cultivated even music as a mere accomplishment, fearful lest she should be considered a pedant or an artiste. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Their knowledge of books far surpasses their knowledge of men, and nothing can be more dangerous to any nation than to be counselled and guided by pedants rather than by men of the world. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View They are a part of education, and of infinitely more value, Than all their pedant diſcipline e'er knew. Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies One year inspires you—four may get you pot-bound with pedant prejudice. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers She rejected fine gentlemen because they were not pedants, and pedants because they were not fine gentlemen. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 It is significant that the English word "pedant" was coined in the sixteenth century. The Age of the Reformation Life is varied, men and women many, while the individual life is short; wise men read books, therefore, to enrich their experience, not merely as the pedant does, to garner facts. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View The new leaders are not sure of their feet, and these old pedants have taken their chance of getting back their old power. The Loom of Youth The author does not obtrude it; does not play the pedant with it; does not lecture upon it; and above all does not bore with it. Shadows of the Stage It is not the Government but the war that has appointed the great generals, sifted out the pedants, put in the new and vigorous blood. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O The besetting silliness of every class is exposed: of the man of pleasure, of the man of business, of women and of husbands, of the writer and of the pedant. The Age of the Reformation The Great Elector, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, and Bismarck made Germany, and her philosophers and pedants are only responsible for the softness that made it possible. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View If," he writes, "in a poem by no means ascertained to be my production there appears a disagreeable, casuistical, and by no means respectable female pedant, it is set down for my wife. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 Where the pedant would have referred and quoted and cross-referred, he went dashing on, throwing out ideas from his abundance and caring little if among his wealth were a few faults of fact or interpretation. Gilbert Keith Chesterton He read Latin, and still more Greek, not in the spirit of a pedant or a pedagogue, but genuinely for pleasure and refreshment. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters In sullen vengeance, I, disdain’d reply: The pedant swung his felon cudgel round, And knock’d the groaning vowel to the ground! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham To the Englishman, at least to the pedant, he is still a somewhat elaborate jest. Studies in Early Victorian Literature From what I have heard, James was a heavy pedant, a rank coward, essentially not a man to be popular among a spirited people. In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain A name like The Distributive Review would suggest that a Distributist was like a Socialist, a crank or a pedant with a new theory of human nature. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Moreover, and this is the fate of angry pedants, he himself is often found to be as dustily incorrect as Warton when examined by modern lights. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters As trembling U stood staring all aghast, The pedant in his left hand clutched him fast, In helpless infants’ tears he dipp’d his right, Baptiz’d him eu, and kick’d him from his sight. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham To be sure, they will not scan according to the elephantine grace of the pedant's iambics; but then, neither will the Indian songs scan, though I know of nothing more subtly rhythmical. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark And though his speech worked a pretty enough havoc with fine-spun rhetoric to raise the wig off a pedant's head, Jean and I thought we read some sense in his mixed metaphors. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade If ever that people enters politics it will sweep away most of our revolutionists as mere pedants. Gilbert Keith Chesterton No book is fit for a gentleman’s reading p. 164which is not void of facts and of doctrines, that he may not grow a pedant in his morals or conversation. Dialogues of the Dead The pedant stifles keen the Roman sound Not all his mongrel diphthongs can compound; And next the title following close behind, He to the nameless, ghastly wretch assign’d. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham But there was a small pedant who, while never paying much attention to the lessons, and being usually at the bottom of the form in consequence, knew the regulations by heart. Masques & Phases Its scientific side is that on which the pedant generally approaches it. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art Now let me carry this contention—that all Literature is personal and therefore various—into a field much exploited by the pedant, and fenced about with many notice-boards and public warnings. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 He offended the pedants and the formalists by his daring originality, he had secured the hate of rival musicians by the vigor and keenness of his criticisms. Great Italian and French Composers To satisfy the pedant she must tell her story of passion in terms of reason. Adventures in Criticism But he promptly resolved to disregard the warnings of pedants and to be a man of letters though a professor of history and politics. President Wilson's Addresses But the pedants are not harmful, because they are not interesting; strictly speaking, they do not write for the public at all, but only for their professional colleagues. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art We feel in most of these poems that it is no real lover languishing for his mistress, but a pedant posing before a critical public. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 By endeavouring to unmask before the public this hypocritical pedant, you run the risk of disturbing the tranquillity of your whole life. Life of Adam Smith But if only the second test is passed, it may please a few pedants, but it is worthless, and cannot live. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses The pedant still does the cause of education incalculable injury. Craftsmanship in Teaching Yet music is of all the arts in the world the last that a mere pedant should discuss. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art She very soon remarked that the drunkard resembled the coachman, the cross and meddling person the cook, the pedant her own teacher, and thus she proved the infallibility of Lavater! Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business No doubt those languages, like all others, have fared hard at the hands of pedants; and there are active boys who hate all study, and others who love the natural sciences alone. A Handbook for Latin Clubs It is not to be taught in workshops and schoolrooms by craftsmen and pedants, though it may be ripened in studios by masters who are artists. Art Schlegel, though he too had some touch of genius in him, was half pedant, half coxcomb, and full of intellectual and moral faultiness. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy It will find an audience, even though the singer be Robert Burns at his plow in the remoteness of Ayr, or the philosophic Æsop in the humble garb of a Greek pedant's slave. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South A pedant is formed by his memory; a man of culture is formed by the habit of meditation, and by the constant use of the imagination. Books and Culture The pedant or the conceited person silently drifted away. Fifth Avenue Moreover, I have never been a man of routine, have never shown myself a pedant, who is obliged to hold fast to certain ideas and views. Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances |
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