| 单词 | pedantry |
| 例句 | Winston Churchill did not, as legend has it, reply to an editor who had corrected his prose with “This is pedantry up with which I will not put.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This logician would be unbearably pedantic, but there is a grain of good taste in the pedantry. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There is not an ounce of pedantry in his 85-minute monologue, an indescribably ridiculous collection of anecdotes and asides that miraculously blend into a whole. Review: In ‘Thank God for Jokes,’ Mike Birbiglia Tells His Side of the Story 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z This isn't mere pedantry, there's an ideological problem with it, too. Rules for writing: block that metaphor! 2013-05-23T14:40:46Z Filmmakers’ supposed disregard for history is often pored over with gotcha-like glee, grave pedantry or something in between. ‘Selma’ Questions Are Nothing New for Historical Films 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z And occasionally, Mr. Weldon becomes Comic Book Guy in spite of himself, writing with the same pedantry and fastidiousness. Review: ‘The Caped Crusade’ and Batman’s Reach Beyond — Gasp! — Comic Book Lore 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Barnes is a wicked observer of the fastidiousness and pedantry of the suburban male. Pulse by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z But today he would be expected to meet intellectual pedantry with populist theater. Impeachment goes to college 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z "I must be frank and tell you that when I look back at some of my early writings and speeches, I am appalled by their pedantry, artificiality and lack of originality." Excerpts from Mandela book 2010-10-11T09:46:00Z “A final characteristic of the paranoid style is related to the quality of its pedantry,” wrote Hofstadter, in a portion of his essay that doesn’t appear in “Real Enemies.” Review: ‘Real Enemies,’ at the BAM Harvey Theater, Sheds Light on Conspiracies 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z No citation is too obscure, which sometimes produces more explication and pedantry than is good for fiction. A novel in love with movies and movie love 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But what most annoys about the scheme is that it completely misses the point of linguistic pedantry. David Mitchell 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Well, actually it’s just the North American division, and it also includes punctuation pedantry. Style Invitational Week 1412: Jumble bells 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z One man who's well-placed to take stock of the situation is Scottish comic Stephen Carlin, whose characteristic mode of bone-dry intellectual pedantry has in recent years been allied to an increasingly satirical streak. This week's new comedy 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z It’s a phrase that riffs on the pedantry of bureaucratic inspection but also surveillance and state intrusion. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The sweet pedantry of the originals is replaced by glossy production values and easy money. Andy Warhol: the case against 2012-06-20T13:52:49Z More than a whiff of musty pedantry clings to this music. No 'hallelujahs' this Christmas unless 'Messiah' gets funding 2011-05-11T17:44:12Z If we are to be shocked, we must define our terms with the same pedantry that Martin shows to the English language. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z From the beginning it has offered a slickly produced mix of graphics and text—exciting photos of blood and destruction and articles written in a mode of exalted and redundant pedantry. The Perfect Children of ISIS: Lessons from Dabiq 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z As Winston Churchill never actually said, it's the kind of pedantry "up with which I will not put". Grammar rules everyone should follow 2013-05-09T13:56:00Z She says: “Return yourself forthwith to the age of pointless educational pedantry.” Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Leave the pedantry, they say, for the academics. A New Biography of the Renaissance Genius 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z It was a very bad idea from the outset, and one forced into life — or the life of the undead — with barely imaginable self-righteousness, pedantry, dynamism, and horror. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Because if there’s one thing that ruins Christmas more than self-absorption, it’s pedantry. 8 social media no-nos on Christmas Day | Stuart Heritage 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Second, as a professor of English, I am dismayed by the pedantry and narrow-mindedness of his teaching and his treatment of a dissenting student. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z A slight pedantry of manner was made up for by abounding energy, warmth and a plentiful sense of fun. Oliver Cox obituary 2010-06-02T17:49:00Z He issued advice about the fair’s folk exhibits with his trademark mixture of eagerness, excitement and pedantry. Books of The Times: He Heard America Singing 2011-01-30T17:14:05Z As Winston Churchill, one of the last century’s most powerful writers, wryly observed, “This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z He is “taciturn, prone to pedantry, conceited and cantankerous”; he is “ridiculous, truculent, old fashioned.” Review: In ‘The Great Swindle,’ Pierre Lemaitre Spins a Dark Postwar Tale 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z His pedantry is cut by acidic wit and compressed emotion. It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z This week: Give us some humorous pedantry, as in the examples above. Style Invitational: O pedantry, O pedantry — send us your quibbles 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z While some of us may live to host weight-loss shows, others find solace in pedantry. On the Twitter Patrol 2010-04-28T16:26:00Z The author must understand, as Arthur demonstrates during the course of this novel, that “the requisite pedantry of detective work” does have its obsessive-compulsive rewards. Books of The Times: A Sherlock Holmes Tale That?s Hardly Elementary 2010-12-16T07:05:12Z He was an observational genius whose main talent was for exposure — exposure of the predictable opponent and exposure of pedantries, and he treated both as pretty much the same thing. Perspective | In the esoteric mind of Mike Leach, football was just the tip of the sword 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z I’m deeply dismayed that the perennial paragon of pedantry, George F. Will, failed at either simple arithmetic or calendar history. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: There’s more to that story 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Jovin’s journey is narrated in brief vignettes that highlight her own dogged buoyancy and the competitive pedantry of the people she meets. Review | Reader does this question need a comma? A new book offers grammar help. 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z His outlook isn’t rooted purely in rigid pedantry, either: It’s based on his taste, but it’s also tied to what he’s accomplished through a very specific approach. Pusha T could rap forever, but only on his terms 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z A windowless chamber is for dwelling on the consequences of your pedantry. Judge John Hodgman on Walk-In Closets 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z By comparison, a comma and a colon could transform the old warhorse of grammar pedantry from, “A woman, without her man, is nothing,” into, “A woman: without her, man is nothing.” John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical ‘barbarians,’ dies at 97 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Emails that start by recognising how it’s “important to preserve pedantry at a time of national crisis” are always going to raise a smile. COVID or Covid? The calm comfort of pedantry at a time of national crisis 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z But there is, as David Cleary put it, very clearly a reassuring desire to use “pedantry as a distraction in these worrying times,” so there were a LOT of emails about the soccer/football schism. Soccer Is a Habit. But Habits Can Be Broken. 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z It has the pedantry of “The Newsroom,” minus its screwball zest, and the sleekness of “The Good Wife,” minus its canny wit. Mixed Débuts on Apple TV+ in “The Morning Show” and “Dickinson” 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z I mean, they're Democrats: More or less well-intentioned pedantry, with a side of smug, is what they do. Impeachment, Day One: Republicans weaponize nihilism, defend Trump, destroy reality 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z According to this elite consensus — which is equal parts civics-lesson pedantry masquerading as realpolitik and the other way around — impeachment is distasteful and divisive and likely to backfire on whoever deploys it. The elite consensus on impeachment: We're deeply sad and wish it would go away 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Sontag’s pencilled notes in a banal brochure of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society inspire Rieff’s reflection on “that astonishing mix of gallantry and pedantry that was one of her hallmarks.” Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Such a narrow obsession is weak pedantry, a form of liberal Schadenfreude to mock Trump's ignorance of American history and the deplorables who follow him. Trump the storyteller: His gift for narrative is why he may win again 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Far from impressed, City clearly felt this represented painful pedantry on the part of Paul Tierney with their dismay only intensifying when De Bruyne was booked for his quick thinking. Newcastle’s Matt Ritchie on the spot to dent Manchester City’s title hopes 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The first time was back in August, before she had been elected to Congress, and the pedantry was strong. Fact-check false equivalence: Washington Post rates Ocasio-Cortez as bad as Trump 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The duo argues that its objection to such incorrect use is more than pedantry. The phrase ‘necessary and sufficient’ blamed for flawed neuroscience 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z In a triumph of public relations over pedantry, the company refers to its new Zeppelins as “Goodyear Blimps,” rather than the more accurate “Goodyear Semi-Rigid Dirigibles.” Analysis | The blimp industry is changing, right over our noses 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z If so, you’ve been gunsplained: harangued with the pedantry of the more-credible-than-thou firearms owner, admonished that your inferior knowledge of guns and their nomenclature puts an asterisk next to your opinion on gun control. Perspective | The NRA and its allies use jargon to bully gun-control supporters 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z So now we get to replace Oxford comma pedantry with semicolon pedantry. Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z This is, simply put, pure pedantry; the federal government routinely reallocates monies from one project to another over varying, different timelines. Fact-check false equivalence: Washington Post rates Ocasio-Cortez as bad as Trump 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Do you scoff at pedantry, love to use new coinages and loan-words, begin sentences with conjunctions just for the hell of it and think Eats, Shoots & Leaves was a book for the small-minded and ignorant? Don’t press send … The new rules for good writing in the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z His gift was to teach without pedantry; to ask that one crucial question that illuminated the way out of the most difficult problem. In Memoriam: Jerry Nelson, Legendary Telescope Designer 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z This may seem like needless pedantry; why would anyone lie about such a thing? The perfect memory: does it even exist? | Dean Burnett 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z There's a pedantry in the play about language and how it should be used. Damian Lewis webchat – your questions answered on Brexit nationalists, Eton and noisy theatregoers 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z I suspect that some of the pedantry on recipe websites is a result of that; it comes from a desire to participate, to be included. Food is important – but recipes aren’t sacred | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z He has a living, loose line that stops them descending into mere pedantry. Bob Dylan: a Hockney-like painter of America's strange essence 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Wikipedia is hardly perfect — it’s known for its pedantry, sexism, and epic edit wars. Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But seldom was Kaine’s display of cheerful pedantry more counterproductive than when he sabotaged Quijano’s effort to corner Pence on the contradictions and the blindness in his position on race and law enforcement. Pence Defends Trump on Race, Kaine Interrupts 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Petry spent half an hour more raking through the protesters’ arguments, expressing concern that Germany’s youth could be led so badly astray and exasperating the students with her pedantry. The New Star of Germany’s Far Right 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Magritte paints with a sincere amateur’s pedantry and a belief in the perspective tradition that would please the most conservative connoisseur. This is not an article: why René Magritte is a timeless genius 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The conversation about "net neutrality" can often quickly become a nightmare of semantics and pedantry — and ironically I suspect the cable companies have benefitted from it becoming a huge buzzword. Comcast customers hate data caps, but making customers hurt is all part of the plan 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z “Sorry for the pedantry but it isn’t every day that growing up in South Dakota enables me to contribute to a football discussion.” Clockwatch: Premier League, Championship, FA Cup and European football as it happened 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s idiocy, it’s pedantry — it’s ridiculous stuff from partisan hacks. Rand Paul slams Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski as ‘idiot,’ ‘partisan hack’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z I’m hoping we can convince the council to expand this to Stuart Broad Street and kill the two birds of pedantry and celebration with one nomenclatural stone. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The dancers, you might argue, could not hope to capture the unerring pedantry of a man who wrought, and mainly inhabited, a world of words. Go Ask Alice 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Botticelli’s naked Venus rose above the waves to indicate the reborn triumph of pagan flesh over prudish pedantry. The World’s Weirdest Library 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z “Sorry for the pedantry but it isn’t every day that growing up in South Dakota enables me to contribute to a football discussion.” Clockwatch: Premier League, Championship, FA Cup and European football as it happened 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Ms Butler, however, says there is no such "alliance of politics and pedantry". From smart to shove: A brief history of the shirtfront 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z I’m hoping we can convince the council to expand this to Stuart Broad Street and kill the two birds of pedantry and celebration with one nomenclatural stone. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z After riffing on that mystery, he moves smoothly to Berlin’s incredible pedantry. Three books on Berlin, from the fall of the wall to today People now proudly claim to be “nerds”, purple hair is almost mainstream and the decidedly uncool pursuit of pedantry is injecting a sense of superiority into keyboard warriors everywhere. So your a pedant? It's nothing to be proud of 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Winston Churchill did not, as legend has it, reply to an editor who had corrected his prose with "This is pedantry up with which I will not put." Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z This is not, by the way, just some minor piece of pedantry. Obama Administration Doesn't Seem To Understand Tax Inversions As It Tries To Stop Them 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Wearing even higher hair is their dubious idol Trissotin, played by an effusive Mr. Carmichael, who blithely declaims bad poetry and pedantry with aplomb. A Review of ‘The Learned Ladies’ in Morris Township 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Players clearly have the option to overrule the referee's pedantry, but must do what's best for them. Breaking the Law: get rid of the miss rule in snooker 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z "The belated statements today of Ms Harman and her husband - full of pedantry and obfuscation - failed to answer the Mail's central points." Harman denial follows Mail claims 2014-02-25T06:42:56Z Unique amount of pedantry here: Cyclists don't pay road tax either... Is there any such thing as 'road tax'? 2013-08-15T00:45:30Z With any luck, you've been deluged by pedantry about your 'Outstanding mistakes of all time' that the name 'Rommel' is misspelled. The Loop: Falling to Earth 2013-06-21T20:06:14Z So where do you draw the line between pedantry and slovenliness? The people who hate other people's bad grammar 2013-05-13T08:58:14Z "We are pedantry central and we relish that," says Dr. Michel. A 200-Year-Old Spat Over Tortoise Name Has a Winner 2013-04-02T02:45:41Z Finally, it's a hotchpotch of female intuition, pedantry, and Sami Hyypia in the sauna. Football Weekly: United and City celebrate but Walters takes booby prize 2013-01-14T16:22:00Z "I didn't say it last night – it was Wednesday afternoon if we want to be 100% correct," Mr Roy spluttered, with the kind of pedantry that suggests a career in writing Fiver letters beckons. The Fiver 2012-10-04T15:44:09Z It is this: it is one of the core pieties of contemporary pedantry that thought proceeds in fortresses as ordered and locked as a bee hive once seemed to be. A Point of View: On bees and beings 2012-06-03T10:32:45Z It has been the fashion among critics to sneer at them, but, as Saint-Sa�ns has said, there is much pedantry and prejudice in these sneers. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Thus, following nature, and her laws, From men and birds I claim applause, While, nurs’d in pedantry and sloth, An OWL is scorn’d alike by both. Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z From the Book of St Albans onward the treatises on armory are informed with a pedantry which touches the point of crazy mysticism in such volumes as that of Sylvanus Morgan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Auber faithfully renders note for note, what the other writes word for word—braggadocio, degrading sensuality, pedantry, epicurism, and parodies of foreign nationality. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Sometimes it touched, indeed, upon deeper feelings, without ever becoming grave; and sometimes it ventured farther into the realms of learning, without approaching pedantry. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z The same holds of the corresponding pedantry about division. The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z List not, when the froward chide, Sons of pedantry and pride; Snarlers, to whose feeble sense April sun-shine is offence; Age and envy will advise, Ev’n against the joys they prize. Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z The first is a mark of pedantry, the second a sign of folly. 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 The age of genius had closed, and the age of pedantry had succeeded it. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Burke was altogether free from the pedantry which I have here endeavoured to expose. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z I have preserved on the title-page some of my college degrees, to indicate my professional studies of theology and law, and not from motives of pedantry. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Cautiousness and ardent passion, dry pedantry and piety, morality and sensuality; simplicity and ostentation composed his nature; and, hence, his literary productions never attained artistic finish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Avoid pedantry; it is a mark, not of intelligence, but stupidity. 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 The very amusements of the scholars took the form of a whimsical and puerile pedantry. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z "He has an acute eye for prevailing weaknesses and absurdities ... an admirable knack of showing the absurd side of cant and pedantry." Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z So long as the teacher throws the pupils back upon their own self-activity and thinking power, there need be no danger of moral pedantry or of moral dyspepsia. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z Yet he is saved, in his practice, from the abuse of this theory by his admirable sense, his ironical humour, his intolerance of pretension and pedantry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Without a trace of pedantry or dogmatism, such works appear from time to time in Paris and are delightful reminders of the good breeding and suppleness of Gallic criticism. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z I am tired of the absurd pedantry which consecrates the history of such a people to the instruction of children.—l'A.B.C. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Prescott's nature was not one that had the slightest sympathy with pedantry. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z The best literature is free from moral pedantry, but full of moral suggestion and stimulus. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z Companionship with the educated justifies the use, without justly incurring the charge of pedantry, of every mode of conveying ideas that we are assured is intelligible to them. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z But even in his most glorious days as a Marxist his was the musty pedantry of the German professor, which was hardly ever penetrated by a live spark of revolutionary spirit. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Learning, indeed, was often ridiculed as pedantry in a gentleman of good family. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z I corrected the dictation, put Maréchal for 'Marshal' because the word was used in reference to Ney, who I knew was a Frenchman; and was furious when my pedantry lost me a mark. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z In the waning eighteenth century, while ladies were hopelessly frivolous or else weighed down with pedantry, the gentlemen came for the most part under three categories. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z If you do, it is sufficient evidence that you sadly need them; for they are the antitoxin to counteract the bacillus of pedantry. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z The great work achieved by the English lawyers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was prompted by a spirit which had nothing to do with pedantry. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z A life of books, but so close and sympathetic to the struggling mass of humanity as to escape the reproach of pedantry. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z For this pedantry the Judge usually snubs them. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z Sofya Nikolayevna felt better and more enterprising than usual; and it was only the pedantry of the doctor, she said, that kept her to the sofa. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z There were always books to tell about and laugh over, or to admire, and there was an abundance of good talk with no shadow of pedantry or priggishness. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z "And," he ended, "now that I have bored you with my cheap pedantry, I remember that I have been a bad host: I have not asked you your errand." Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z Did they remember that ethics is a science of relations, or, what amounts to the same thing, a science of limits, they would be saved such pedantry. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z He spoke of other climates and bright towns with a scholarship which had nothing of pedantry, and an observation human as it was keen. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z A lively fancy, a strain of genuine erudition beneath his pedantry, and some sparks of insanity, are other elements in his fantastical character. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z As he especially valued good taste and courtesy, wit, and liveliness of mind in his associates, so he is intolerant of all mean and sordid ways of living, of all stupidity, affectation, and pedantry. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Here the spirit of the metre has deserted the body of the verse, which is now merely galvanized into life by an artificial current of pedantry. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Their near-sighted pedantry inclines them to put their trust in formulas, when the thing they are dealing with is life. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z I have even risked the appearance of pedantry in adding a glossary. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Hence that clinging to the form, to the manner, to the expression and word which is characteristic of pedantry, and which with it takes the place of the real nature of the matter. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The nature of pedantry is to try to be guided everywhere by concepts, and to trust nothing to perception in the particular case. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z He discerned this luminous point in a period befogged by prejudice, tradition, pedantry, conventionality, subservience to antiquated humours and insurgent eccentricities. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Intellectuality may be all very well in youth, but in an old lady anything beyond a delicate pedantry is unlovely. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z And they give the title of pedantry to that circumspection which one ought to practise for the preservation of his own honour. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z For he knows how to be profound with simplicity, striking without rhetoric, and severely logical without pedantry: and of what German could he have learnt that? Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z As museum work apart from exploration tends to dilettantism and pedantry, so exploration by itself does not produce reasoned knowledge. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z I shall not re-read him! but leave him to his spiritual dryness and preposterous pedantry. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Nowhere has he been better described than in "Margaret," in the character of Master Elliman, whose mingled pompousness, verbiage, and pedantry, admirably represent the class to which he belonged. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z Yet the accent was frankly Northern, and the diction free from any obtrusive elegance or trace of pedantry. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z This gives certain of his arguments an air of pedantry, and seems to lead him to find evidences of continuity in institutions which in reality and spirit were different from what they once had been. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z You are a man of by far too much practical sense to be humbugged by such outworn pedantry, and your own particular purpose in penning Silas is of course most distinctly apparent. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z His learning had no pedantry, his piety no superstition; his benevolence almost no parallel. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z From the purely literary point of view, the style is remarkable from its absence of pedantry In construction, and yet for its rich vocabulary and picturesque brilliancy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z There was no pedantry whatever about Paine, this obedient son of Humanity. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z He was an author without jealousy, a scholar without pedantry, and a politician without quackery. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z Strong practical sense is their most prevailing characteristic, unaccompanied by any repulsive air of selfishness, pedantry, or unfeminine harshness. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z No. 'The old books, the cold pedantry, and sluggish pertinacity of Theobald,' never excited the serious contempt or indignation of mankind. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z And in this humility there was a pride in being humble; for did he not remember all the complacency, the dogmatism, the conviction, the assurance, the self-consciousness, all the pedantry that battened down there? The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z In criticizing the food-distribution system he wrote very plainly of the “overdose of business efficiency and social service pedantry.” Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z He carried his love of order even to pedantry, and must have thought himself in his inner heart a man of brains, as is generally the case with narrow, mediocre persons. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Hortense is inclined to pedantry; she loves to air her views. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z As a resuscitation of history, it has the accuracy without the pedantry of the works of German and other moderns. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z With a pedantry without its equal, with an intense conscientiousness, with a profundity of which a superficial French fool can form no conception, this German folly was pursued. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The Saturdays of "Sapho" brought back the literary people to the pedantry from which Mme. de Rambouillet had more or less delivered them. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z How far away from such conceptions of Christianity are those which busy themselves on either side with matters of detail, with punctilios of observance, and pedantries of form? The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z The vanity, the artifice, the pedantry can easily be noted and dismissed. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Your common sense will save you from pedantry.” Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z Walter Scott, in his schoolmasters, has caricatured pedantry; so has Shakespeare. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z I can't be offended," she replied, "when I think how you rebuked my absurd outburst of pedantry. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z "He," Vergennes said of Adams, in a letter to La Luzerne, "possesses a rigidity, a pedantry, an arrogance and a vanity which render him unfit to treat political questions." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Far more dangerous and more attractive than any pedantry of the schools was the traditional convention of the allegorical poets, the Rose and all the attendants of the Rose. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The beginning of distinction is simplicity and sincerity, all absence of affectation, pedantry, or the desire to make an impression. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z But Dickens has discovered a variety of types of pedantry and made them all easily recognisable and odious to us. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Being now in good humour, she resolved that Sir James should have a specimen of her learning, which it is well known degenerated too much into pedantry. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z But nowhere is this speech without stain spoken by man in his daily life—not in London, where cockneyisms abound, not in Oxford, where university slang is luxuriant and where pedantry flourishes. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Yet such disagreeable pedantry shows how conscientiously the small curly head is trying to bring clearness and order into the dark tangle of our speech, and it ought not to be treated harshly. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z These few sentences of plain speaking swept away the clouds of intrigue and pedantry as by a wholesome gust of wind. William the Third 2011-07-31T02:00:12.077Z There was an opinion that "pedantry" was out of place where the interests of the state were at stake. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z To turn to the scenic details which form a considerable element of this historical picture, I have already hinted that they are not without a taint of cumbrousness and pedantry. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z We can readily pardon his petty pedantries and the little vices of expression he persisted in. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z There was much that made Galilee suitable: its position was at once central and retired, and its inhabitants were, according to Josephus, sturdy and independent, and, of course, free from the pedantry of Rabbinical schools. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z The drama must be dynamic and the novel may be static—if these scientific terms may be employed without pedantry. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Bj�rnson was perhaps the worst offender of all, and yet his preaching was salved by such a broad and warm humanity that his pedantry could be forgiven. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z People have been led to consider the classroom as a place of confinement and of punishment, and teachers have been cruelly lashed by the scourge of ridicule cracked in the face of pedantry. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z He has done so in this case, and we seem to know the grammarian in all his pedantry and exclusive devotion to a minute branch of human knowledge. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Hence their incorrectness and their negligence are balanced by a delightful ease and absence of pedantry, and in the fabliaux we get closer than elsewhere to the living diction of medieval France. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Events must not be born without a preparatory course of his obstetrical pedantry! 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 It savours of folly as well as of pedantry even to make the attempt. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z I have no such respect for the pedantry of absurdity as that. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z They hamper the action and lend an air of pedantry and preaching with which a novel proper has nothing to do. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Humour, of which he is full, flows freely through all his writings; an easy, limpid, lively, delicate humour, in which I have never detected a lapse of taste or a touch of pedantry. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Gribert and her daughter are merely following out a tradition of the remotest antiquity, if you can endure the pedantry of an old college professor, I will give you an example from the classics. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z It will gain in utility and grace what it loses in pride, ambition, and doctrinaire pedantry. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z It has been declared sheer pedantry to speak of such boundaries; and to suggest that there is anything degrading in paid readings such as those of Dickens would, on the face of it, be absurd. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z For her profound learning, which ran like a golden thread through all she wrote till it became tarnished by pedantry, we have the ignorance which misquotes Lempri�re and thinks itself classic. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z To make of this little country a museum of Runic relics, to make a mere caretaker of this vigorous little race, is worse than pedantry; it is cruelty. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Little pedantry or imperiousness was now to be discerned in him; he was silent and thoughtful, yet withal he seemed composed and placid; in short, he was quite another man. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z For, professor as he is, he despises pedantry as the plague. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Whatever be its proper name, however, in the pedantry of taste, it is not surpassed on the Wye in its own kind. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z Her scholarship degenerated into pedantry, and what had been stately and dignified accuracy in her terms grew to be harsh and inartistic technicality. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z It is both anachronism and pedantry to give him these names, as is often done, in writing of him in connexion with Keats, to whom he was never anything but plain Charles Brown. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Whether from the love of novelty, or rather by that transition to a new system of human affairs, the pedantry of ancient standing was giving way to the cultivation of a national tongue. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z 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 Surely she might have taken the trouble to go a little below the surface, and see if his pedantry and apathy concealed no qualities which she might first admire, and then love. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z He worked little but rapidly, with none of the bureaucratic pedantry of a Philip II. cloistered in the dark towers of the Escurial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Nothing makes a man appear more contemptible than barrenness, pedantry, or impropriety of expression. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z It is true that the pedantry of scholarship has put its sovereign veto against the practice of writing words as they are spoken, even could the orthoepy ever have been settled by an unquestioned standard. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Forbes was a patriot without ostentation or pretence, a true Scotsman with no narrow prejudice, an accomplished and even erudite scholar without pedantry, a man of genuine piety without asceticism or intolerance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The Alexandrian is followed by the Roman period, and the Roman by the Byzantine, in which the spirit of the muse of Hellas expires reluctantly in an atmosphere of bureaucratic and religious pedantry. Love, Worship and Death Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology 2011-04-21T02:00:45.290Z It is based on the pedantry of certain of the Assyrian scribes, who, educated in the literature and religion of Babylonia, were naturally anxious to fit their national god into the Babylonian system of theology. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z This moth was pedantry, the result, doubtless, of too much erudition encouraging a natural tendency in her mind, which as we have seen was acquisitive rather than inventive. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The learning of that day must not be held as the pedantry of a later, for it was laying the foundations of every knowledge in the soil of England. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Her emotions, big, vital, contemporaneous, had no part in this formal and colorless pedantry. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Some of Varchi's own stylistic pedantries may be attributed to this Latinizing education. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In many cases it is as yet impossible to tell whether a native etymology really rests on a fact of history, or is the invention of learned pedantry or popular etymologising. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The character of pedantry and preciosity which the H�tel afterwards incurred, is not to be traced in any of its original features. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z One of the most striking imitations is that curious folio of secret history, and brilliant sententiousness, and witty pedantry, the Life of Archbishop Williams by Bishop Hacket. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Make the most of such an advantage by exercising your own abilities and powers of pleasing, give yourself the habit of talking your very best on every topic, without pedantry or any sign of premeditation. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Meanwhile, the genius of the Florentine people was saving Italian literature from the extreme consequences to which caricatures of this kind, inspired by humanistic pedantry and sciolism, exposed it. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z And, in spite of all his pedantry, Azurara rises at times to a true eloquence, some of his pages being equal to the best in Portuguese prose. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I 2011-04-02T02:00:10.597Z But she soon relaxed these studies, which might easily have landed her in pedantry. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z While his earnest eloquence, freed from all scholastic pedantry, assumed a style stately in its structure, his gentle spirit sometimes flows into natural humour, lovely in the freshness of its simplicity. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The source of a defect so common seems to me to be the accusation of pedantry, so long and so justly made against authors. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z When his style attained perfection in the Decameron, it had lost the pedantry of his first manner, and combined the brevity of the best contemporary writers with rhetorical smoothness and intricacy. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z They were told in so fine a spirit, so free both from ungraceful levity and solemn pedantry, that the reader only regretted that they were too sparingly imparted. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Useless pedantry of this kind spoils many a happy touch of humour, Mrs. Poyser alone perhaps having wholly escaped from it. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Professional men disfigured the language by conventional pedantries; the finical courtier would prate “nothing but Chaucer.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z That dream of a perfect beauty to be achieved, of a perfect life to be lived according to nature and reason, would have ended in a little scholarship and a little pedantry. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Both are unalloyed by pedantry, and precious for the student of contemporary manners. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The pedantry of Gerrold is poor, the fun of the rustics forced and feeble, the sternness of Theseus brutal and untouched by final gentleness as in Chaucer. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Readers began to resent her pedantry, her elaboration of allusions, her loss of simplicity. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z So that two of the finest geniuses in our literature, for recasting the language, must lay their heads down to receive the heavy axe of verbal pedantry. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Here reigned a decent liberty, gaiety without tumult, silence without pedantry, and wit without asperity. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z So essentially is it the product of a transitional moment-222- that when the first enthusiasm for its euphuistic pedantry and æsthetical rapture had subsided, the key to its most obvious meaning was lost. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z He read it through with a certain pedantry, added here and there a comma, or made a letter plainer, placed the letter in an envelope, and addressed it to Elsa. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z In any other country but France, this preoccupation would have led to dreariness and pedantry, if not to a permanent and sterile isolation. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z They forget that in their youth they laughed at or criticized their elders for the same pedantry of which they themselves afterward become guilty. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Thou hast received into thy house the very dregs of pedantry. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z They were usually the property of some pompous individual whose pedantry and assumption, among the simple folk about him, went by the name of culture and learning. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z We spoke of a slight pedantry in the enthusiasms of the Suppliant Women. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z But the mass of these sonnets and odes and madrigals is extraordinarily insipid and cold, the similes are forced and grotesque, and everywhere pedantry takes the place of passion. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z They are a presumptuous, under-bred, consequential race,—a cross between a small skipper and smaller Secretary of Legation, with a mixture of official pedantry and maritime off-handedness that is perfectly disgusting. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z They might as well have said, that the head of the Minerva, or of the Jupiter, is too large, or a hundred other ignorant inapplicabilities, and ridiculous pedantries. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z I despise pompousness, pedantry, and unconscious condescension in a man.... Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z He thought of the endless, big, expensive, fruitless books, the windy expansions of industrious pedantry that mocked the spirit of inquiry. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Specialization and cumbrous pedantry fall into profound disfavour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z As for the charge of pedantry, no charge is more easily made, but no charge is more easily retorted. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Just such a pedantry exists in my native country, and truly educated men are crying out for reformation. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z To accuse us of "destruction" of industries and "terror" is hypocrisy or clumsy pedantry, shows an incapability of understanding the most elemental fundamentals of the raging, climatic force of the class struggle, called Revolution. A Letter to American Workingmen 2011-02-12T03:00:32.177Z The partial pedantry of this speech was more than compensated for by the racy enjoyment of the speaker, and Magennis was really gratified at the zest with which his young friend relished his meal. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z Mr. Hallam pronounced it "the first example of good English--pure and perspicuous, well chosen, without vulgarisms or pedantry." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z There is no bluestocking where there is no leaven of pedantry. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z "His manners have all the dryness and pedantry of a book-worm," interposed the princess. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z He is no revolutionist, he has not yet freed himself from the pedantry of bourgeois intellectualism, he will fall back, again and again, into the camp of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie. A Letter to American Workingmen 2011-02-12T03:00:32.177Z James I., with all his pedantry, his absurdities, and his stuffed breeches, was not without something of the largeness of mind which culture generally imparts. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Totally to forbid men to use their straps seems to me a piece of pedantry. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z This might be laid to yuthful pedantry, were the whole not made far clearer for the entire citation. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z A striking characteristic of these learned women was the entire absence of all priggism or pedantry. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z All four groups agreed in this claim for individual freedom, and the humanitarian tendencies of Benthamism were sacrificed to its pedantry. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z OK, it's not all that amusing, but still, what's the point of trying to sink a lame joke with linguistic pedantry, only to open the way to an even lamer one? The Fiver 2010-10-11T15:40:00Z 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 Maybe these complaints sound like English-teacher pedantry, but the cumulative effect of such stylistic sloth is deadening. Review of Sara Gruen's 'Ape House' 2010-09-08T04:00:00Z For an accomplished woman to quote the Fathers or the ancient classical writers was to provoke ridicule, because to do so was considered an indication of pedantry or affectation. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z This pedantry would destroy itself: by the application of the same principles it could be proved that a General Election was necessary once a month, or once a week, or once a day. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Nor is the distinction a matter of pedantry. Immigrants cause job losses? Like ice-cream brings sharks 2010-08-16T07:00:00Z "But such pedantry is frowned upon in common usage, so we are stuck with the equally accepted hippopotamuses and hippopotami." South Africa v Mexico - live! 2010-06-11T13:12:00Z Only in cricket – god bless it – could such pedantry be in evidence. England v Sri Lanka ? live! 2010-05-13T14:17:00Z We know that it is not rare to see ordinary women depreciate those who have knowledge, tax them with pedantry and contest their merit in order to avenge themselves upon them for their superiority. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z The Spaniards say that "A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool"—a severe hit on pompous pedantry. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Such a society is the determined enemy of all pedantry, eccentricity, and exaggeration, of all austerity or indecorum, of one-sided enthusiasm or devotion to a single idea. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil If this be not pedantry, I know nothing of the subject. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 The writer gives the Germans credit for some kind acts, while laughing at them for their stiffness, pedantry and stupidity. A Kut Prisoner 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 If so, apologetics is literally a science, and it is pedantry to claim the defensive and pretend to throw the onus probandi upon objectors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" This quality is the stoical power of endurance which he attributes to his hero, but which in him is combined with nothing either of the austerity or pedantry of Stoicism. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Added to this pedantry was an extraordinary uncritical attitude of mind, induced by his obsession by one favorite idea, which blinded him to all objections. Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology He was opposed to pedantry, pomp and parade. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Impartially, and with lively interest, did he enter into the policy of Tiberius, and the enthusiasm of Loyola, the gradual development of slavery in North America, and the pedantries and dreams of Robespierre. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. But he was too sensible a man not to regard with contempt the purist pedantry with which the associates of his society endeavoured to raise the German poetry. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. There was still much useless scholastic pedantry, and what was then admired as elegant Latin, has somewhat of a monkish flavour. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. I sat about the house, with a dry book, to feel the contrast of the rain; I sniffed the dust of an Elizabethan's pedantry—and then my wife and my daughter began on me. A Yankee from the West A Novel Free from pedantry and naturally retiring—his powers of mind were known only to his immediate friends. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Their conception of existence wavered betwixt ideal requirements and a fastidious, often narrow pedantry, which strikingly distinguished them, not always advantageously, from the nobleman. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. We usually see pedantry trying to keep back, and audacity trying to go on too fast. Maxims and Reflections He displays throughout a hatred of pedantry and convention, which makes his book still interesting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" And with a most absurd pedantry, the ecclesiastical state is called Romanum imperium. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 He saw in delicate, laborious, discriminating taste, an effeminate pedantry, and would, when that mood was on him, delight in all that seemed healthy, popular, and bustling. The Trembling of the Veil He must be a scholar without pedantry, a man of the world without indifference, a friend of the people without sentimentality. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses He was a brilliant light at Oxford, and came over to illumine our darkness, and if pedantry could only supply the deficiency in the potato crop, he would be a providence to the land. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) 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 He now took the advice attributed to Burne-Jones, and unlearned much of his acquired pedantry. Aubrey Beardsley I found her learned without pedantry, witty in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners.” Lives of Celebrated Women He shows also in some of his lighter pieces the fastidiousness of a refined taste, intolerant of all boorishness, pedantry, affectation and sordid ways of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" A more scrupulous exactness in this respect would appear to me arrant pedantry, and necessarily obstruct the free movement of the mind in writing. Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes Christianity is essential being, and not a doctrine, not a body of opinions, not 'a matter of antiquarian pedantry or of historical perspective.' The Voice and Spiritual Education The imposition or non-imposition of a tariff may seem, at a superficial glance, to belong to the mere pedantry of politics. The Book of This and That Bid the professor quit His fraudulent pedantries, and do i' the world The thing he would teach others. The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded On the whole he may be said to be the most complete example of the scholarliness which tended more and more to characterise French poetry at this time, and which too often degenerated into pedantry. A Short History of French Literature I owe it a great debt for deepening my artistic perception, and developing that sense of true proportion which keeps one from exaggeration on the one hand and pedantry on the other. Confessions of an Opera Singer The second volume is as readable as the first, full of learning without a spice of pedantry.... The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews In his translations he had to choose between two schools—French affectation, and English pedantry. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Eric was disturbed by her speedy detection in Franklin of "a certain dry pedantry, a stinginess of nature," which her acute criticisms set forth in strong relief. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine It is entitled Le Critique outré, and is an extraordinarily vigorous and happy remonstrance against the intolerant pedantry with which Malherbe was criticising the Pléiade. A Short History of French Literature It was therefore not all pedantry which protested against the multiplicity of action which had itself formed part of the revolt against the too narrow interpretation of unity adopted by the French classical drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" In the last of her letters, she shows her learning, it must be admitted, with a little too much pedantry; but that was in accord with the habit of the day. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) These sort of pedantries were a passion with him, and I did not interpose a word as he spoke. That Boy Of Norcott's Our intellect is rarely contented with purely critical research; it is always attempting to convert into an element of pedantry and into a new scholasticism every discovery of thought. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History He did not indulge in the pedantry of rimes difficiles, by which Racine attracted his hearers, nor was his verse so uniformly smooth as that of his younger rival. A Short History of French Literature This is the very pedantry of perfection, and makes the scenery somewhat better than the actors. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. They have a freshness, a reality, a life, which take their readers into a different world from the dry and conceited pedantries of the ordinary virtuoso. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" But to make that province co-extensive with the realm of truth, to extend the laws which govern it into the universal laws of spirit is a fatal pedantry. Religious Perplexities His elocution was easy, his language chaste, his arrangement lucid; his frequent classic quotations, smacking a little of pedantry; his style, which aimed at the antique, was deficient in elegance and rhythm. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia For many years he furnished tragedies to the stage, and criticised the literary work of others with a singular mixture of acuteness, pedantry, and ill-temper. A Short History of French Literature Another writer finds in the s�ance "the charm of a Platonic dialogue," without pretension or pedantry. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) Though pedantry denies It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens. The Wild Swans at Coole It was pedantry of the driest and dreariest kind. Women of Early Christianity Latin criticism sank into mere pedantry about rhetoric and grammar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" He's a gentleman of most happy circumstances, born to a plentiful estate; has had a genteel and easy education, free from the rigidness of teachers, and pedantry of schools. The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee Where is his shy, hesitating manner, his pedantry, his suspicion,—where the intense eagerness to learn what was going on in the house? Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Such pedantry brought no credit to those who affected it, but only served to heap odium upon the higher studies, which were now rejected with contempt on all sides. Women of England But she had, and she gave me, without the remotest touch of affectation or pedantry, a most interesting and learned analysis of that remarkable work. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things It is the style of a cultivated, thoughtful man, without the pedantry and mannerism which thoughtful and cultivated men so often contract. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 A touch of pedantry was one of his characteristics. A Captive of the Roman Eagles His narrative represents the fourteenth century, its actual pursuits and genuine tastes, while the modernised version of Pope is stripped of circumstantial realities, and exhibits only an impassive, artificial pedantry. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition With all the profession of knowledge which was assumed by the people of this age, there went a great deal of pedantry. Women of England "Confound your pedantry!" broke in Burton; "a junior soph, is a man in his ninth examination." Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas A thing quite unheard of in those days in which there was so much pedantry in matters of form—O'Malley wore no tail! Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors "What unpleasant pedantry are you leading up to?" The Portal of Dreams But we shall indulge in no such wearying pedantry. Physiology of The Opera My memory was not quite unfurnished with passages which I thought likely to be adverted to, and which might serve to embellish conversation, without incurring the charge of pedantry. Coelebs In Search of a Wife He shakes his head very frequently at the pedantry of Universities, and bursts into laughter when you mention an author that is not known at Will's. The Tatler, Volume 3 He had been prepared to suspect her of a morbid pedantry, having known more than one lady in her desperate case who found consolation in the dead languages. The Return of the Prodigal To their ridiculous pedantry, I gave personal expression in the Marker whose duty it was to pay attention to the mistakes of the singers, especially of those who were candidates for admission to the guild.” Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians Why, in contemplating living angels, not dead antiquities;—in basking in the rays of beauty, not mouldering in the dust of ancestry;—in mirth, festivity, and pleasure; not study, pedantry, and retirement.—Oh, The Dramatist; or Stop Him Who Can! A Comedy, in Five Acts Our pedantry wants even the saving clause of Enthusiasm. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers He was schoolmaster in a pedantic age, and there is nothing so unclassical—nothing so impure in style—as pedantry. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Is poverty any where more degraded; cruelty to the helpless animal creation any where more remorselessly practised; or the pride of pedantry, and the vain-glory of human learning, any where more vaunted? A Morning's Walk from London to Kew The great orators of all times were a special object of study with him, and he describes his boyish pedantry pleasantly enough, but by no means without a touch of self-satisfaction in the memory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" “Are they, Arthur?” asked Smith, who had his suspicions, and apprehended another display of Sidney’s pedantry, and was determined if possible to put a check on his folly. Talkers With Illustrations In Hazlitt’s vocabulary there is nothing striking unless it be the scrupulousness with which he avoids the danger of commonplaceness and of pedantry. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature There is no wonder that Milton’s hell is better than his heaven, for he hated officials and he loved rebels, for he employs his genius below, and accumulates his pedantry above. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century A generous and simple affection has almost got the better in them of pedantry and false taste. Spenser And hence, with a kind of sanguine pedantry, he pursued his design of “keeping up with the day” and posting himself and his family on every mortal subject. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) 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 His pedantry accords better with didactic pomp than with illiterate and vulgar gabble; his learning engrafted on romantic tradition or classical history, looks like genius.... Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature It is a pretty heavy, emphatic piece of pedantry; but I don’t care; the public, I verily believe, will like it. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) But ignorance will not take the place of pedantry for all that. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors These men, though free from any trace of pedantry, were never guilty of slang, unless slang was used intentionally for the purpose of humorous emphasis. Memoirs of Life and Literature Poetic quotations in conversation are all very well, when given aptly and wisely; but coming, as they often do, as the fruits of affectation and pedantry, they are repulsive. Talkers With Illustrations When a stranger came in, it was not asked, “Has he written anything?”—we were above that pedantry; but we waited to see what he could do. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Norwich, which has now no social claims to superiority at all, was in my childhood a rival of Lichfield itself, in the time of the Sewards, for literary pretensions and the vulgarity of pedantry. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations But Lessing did not, however, mean by them to charter Pharisaical pedantry. Pedagogics as a System "To General Villa" is a peculiar piece of verse written last summer for the purpose of defying those who had charged its author with pedantry and pomposity. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The curious pedantry of his wonted speech Was charged with living undertones, like truths Too strange and too tremendous to be breathed Save thro' a mask. Collected Poems Volume Two In his Minuets and Finales there is a rollicking effect of high spirits which could never have been attained by mere labored pedantry. Music: An Art and a Language The greater things having been granted, it was mere pedantry to haggle about the less, and to hold an elaborate inquiry into the principles of every man whose barns had been burned during the rebellion. George Brown His little pedantries, which to the day of his death were like those of a clever schoolboy, appeal directly to it. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The intrusion of this pedantry, so conspicuously insincere, with its implied rebuke, chafed him unspeakably, in view of the presence of McGrath. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel Exercises of memory,—the science that consists of mere words,—pedantry, barren and vain-glorious,—held fast their "bad eminence." Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts He seeks genius, but he shuns pedantry; for his knowledge is part of his life. A Modern Symposium If it were not for the name of Shakspeare, Hamlet would be set down as nearly the beau-ideal of a snob—a combination of the pedantry of James and the unmanliness of Buckingham. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 Fortunately for him he had little conceit or pedantry, which would have been a fatal handicap for him as teacher among his own people, simple-hearted though they were. The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains Hatred of pedantry too easily leads to hatred of culture, and hatred of hypocrisy to distrust of the more exalted virtues. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It is unbearable pedantry, and a most useless labor, to attempt correcting in children every little fault against usage; they never fail themselves to correct these faults in time. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts It wasn't a case for pedantry; when people were at her pass everything was allowed. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II Work in common, a common ideal, mutual respect full of affection but free from flattery, and a reciprocal education which does not degenerate into pedantry nor tyranny, are the principal conditions for conjugal happiness. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study The pedantry and uncouthness of Walter Harte had precluded him from ever being a favourite xlv with the public; Shenstone had not yet risen into fame; and Lyttelton was engrossed by politics. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir He knows what are the immediate motives which move masses of men; and is never misled by fanciful analogies or blindfolded by the pedantry of official language. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The style of the older book is a purer Japanese, and imparts to us the traditions of Japanese history uncolored by Chinese philosophical ideas and classic pedantry which shortly after overwhelmed Japanese literature. Japan Quite recently our scholars used to neglect this elementary precaution, in order, as they said, to avoid an "air of pedantry." Introduction to the Study of History Behind him he had left mediæval ignorance, encumbered with superstition, and paralyzed by an ecclesiastical pedantry which passed for learning. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose The language of religious discourse is liable to a subtle kind of pedantry, requiring a vigorous intellect adequately to dissolve. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Van Mander heard from Holbein's circle a story which modern pedantry is inclined to flout. Holbein And yet, beyond all that pedantry of science, he seemed to know that it was something else, perhaps a place that a man might mould by his dreams. The World Beyond For a general maxim, it may be here recommended not to air one's classical learning unnecessarily, lest it savor of pedantry. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Every science has its weak points, and is rather benefited than injured by the satire which, putting pedantry and quackery out of fashion, opens the way to an enlightened pursuit of knowledge. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History They were, say some of their critics, very shallow: they were over-anxious to suit the taste of wits and the town: and in too much fear of the charge of pedantry. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Silius closely followed the history as told by Livy, and without any inventive or constructive power of his own copies, with tasteless pedantry, Homer and Vergil. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight It is not enough that gentlemen should be masters of the learned languages, they must know how to produce their knowledge without pedantry or affectation. Practical Education, Volume II It is indeed a tax of sophistry, a tax of pedantry, a tax of disputation, a tax of war and rebellion, a tax for anything but benefit to the imposers or satisfaction to the subject.... Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Yes, she is so nice and guileless that she doesn't resent my pedantry. Amabel Channice Never was there an octavo volume, like Farmer's upon Shakespeare—which embraced so many, and such curious, points, and which displayed such research, ingenuity, and acuteness—put forth with so little pomp, parade, or pedantry. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance The period of pedantry, of hair-splitting, of slavery to mere technicalities, came very late in Jewish history. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Many ladies show in general conversation the powers of easy raillery joined to reasoning, unincumbered with pedantry. Practical Education, Volume II The pedantry and nonsense uttered by a "schollar" character is, perhaps, an unfair specimen of coffee-house talk; it is especially to be noticed that none of the guests ventures upon the dangerous ground of politics. All About Coffee No one indeed can fail to be struck by the intensely popular character of Indian proverbial philosophy and by its freedom from the note of pedantry which is so conspicuous in Indian literature. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Peace to thy honest spirit; for thou wert wise without vanity, learned without pedantry, and joyous without vulgarity! Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance All this I am setting forth not in pedantry, but because so many folk had stared blankly upon hearing the word—which was to me as familiar as word could be. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South He feels ashamed to produce the knowledge he has acquired, because he has not learned sufficient address to produce it without pedantry. Practical Education, Volume II But the Polizei alone knows what would happen if you ran your head against the established pedantry of things in the city of the Spree. Home Life in Germany Such is "The New Life,"—a medley of passionate feeling, of vaguest narrative, of scholastic pedantry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 The half-witted pedantry of the German doctrine and practice of war, which uses brutality as a protective mask for cowardice, was far from them. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force “That's all pedantry and innovation, no use listening to it,” the monks decided. The Brothers Karamazov It explains much of the great beauty, and it also explains perhaps a little of the slight pedantry. A Little Tour of France There may be confusion and anarchy, but there is not mere pedantry and stagnation. Progress and History To annoy these further by opposing pedantry to banality, one might say that the aseity is quintessential. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Heretofore, our systems have had a positively demoralizing effect by inculcating a love of military glory, a love of ostentatious pedantry, a stubborn adherence to old opinions, and a scorn of useful industry. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 Didactic pedantry has its place in science, and these were scientists, not vaudeville performers. Eight Keys to Eden In the University of Berlin the indoctrination of the student is pursued under the cloak of a baleful and gloomy pedantry, laughably miscalled "the scientific method." Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work But they were free from pedantry, from formalism, they left the dying art of the ancient world and made their own way. Progress and History In 1824 Constable's pictures were shown in the Salon, and confirmed the younger men in their resolution to abandon the lifeless pedantry of the schools and to seek inspiration from nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The title Lord Bacon he never bore in strictness, but it has been consecrated by the use of many generations, and it is perhaps pedantry to object to it. A History of Elizabethan Literature To talk to-day of duty, civil or military, to such a perjured Government does not even deserve to be called constitutional pedantry, for it has not a splinter of constitutionalism to support it. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 I have already protested sufficiently, before American audiences, against the pedantry of perpetually talking about Czecho-Slovakia. What I Saw in America I may have classed it as a freakish pedantry, the result of an unprecedented memory. The Wonder Poet-like too is the portentous pedantry of his archaeological vein; the stupendous air of authority with which he raps out his classical quotations and his historic allusions. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Probably some allusions in this refer to Harvey, whose pragmatical pedantry may have in many ways annoyed Nash, a Cambridge man like himself. A History of Elizabethan Literature His style, sometimes defaced by affectation and pedantry, has a lively smartness not unfrequently rising into wit. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Without detracting from his learning, which was truly great, it cannot be denied that this superfluous display of it subjects him, justly to the imputation of pedantry. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Shakespeare was as profoundly the enemy of scholastic pedantry as he was the enemy of puritan squeamishness. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions When he writes of ships he does not tease us with the pedantry of technical terms. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations But pedantry in this kind consists in using out-of-the-way terms when common ones are ready to hand. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Such a feat of elegant pedantry has already been accomplished by Mr. Thackeray in his noble story of Esmond; and I had no wish to follow up a dignified imitation by a sorry caricature. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... At the same time, I vindicated him, without reserve, from the charge of pedantry. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply It would be pedantry for the painter to correct the expression of his friend and suggest that the man who produced the picture was not an artist. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures I would add these "artistic" persons with their pedantry of condensation and the "exact phrase" to all the others who don't really love this large and liberal art. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations I wonder sometimes if my inveterate pedantries do not amuse or, worse yet, bore you. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance They have to us an air of formality, a slight dash of pedantry. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. He calls the old forms pedantry: but he sees that the rejection of well-established results of pedantry would be greater pedantry still. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II In his addresses from the pulpit the sturdy good-sense of the man shook off the pedantry of the schools as well as the subtlety of the theologian. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 It is written with great talent, and comprehensive learning, but without pedantry. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Timme imitates Sterne’s method of ridiculing pedantry; the requirements listed by the Diaconus and the professor are touches of Walter Shandy’s misapplied, warped, and undigested wisdom. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Even gossip, springing free and cheery from a human heart, this too is a kind of veracity and speech;—much preferable to pedantry and inane gray haze! Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. I would not have Bertha with her impudence and her pedantry go among the Raymonds—no, not for the Bank of England.’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Maxims for Revolutionists But Madame Dacier's enthusiasm was real, and unaccompanied by pedantry or conceit. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 The German novel was crushed under the weight of pedantry and pedagogy. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Gossip preferable to pedantry, 63; seven centuries off, 92, 97. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. She was neither haughty nor full of the pedantry with which social leaders try to disabuse the mind of the ordinary citizen that the rich must necessarily be dubs. Skinner's Dress Suit As a companion," he adds, "no one could be more amusing than Lord Byron; he had neither pedantry nor affectation about him, but was natural and playful as a boy. My Recollections of Lord Byron At last, partly in real pedantry, partly with humorous intent to puzzle them, he delivered his astounding mind. The House with the Green Shutters If we are to believe in the pedantry that Liberty is the child of the ballot-box, then America has no monopoly of its blessings. American Sketches 1908 "With this we must save you and your daughter from the half-breeds," said the trapper, a little impatient at this ill-timed manifestation of pedantry. Duffels But Lady Pomfret is said also to have employed her talents upon more substantial things than pedantry. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 And at Milan, where in Beatrice's days there was less pedantry and more freedom and gaiety than in any court of the day, these lively debates found especial favour. Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 But “Blix” belongs to no school whatever, and there is not a shadow of pedantry or pride of craft in it from cover to cover. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays The dogmatism and pedantry upon which it is based are easily confuted. American Sketches 1908 Her slight affectation of pedantry was very well done and Clavering could not detect the flicker of a lash as her eyes rested indulgently upon her tormentor. Black Oxen We will shortly quit this dirty country of yours, where priestcraft, pedantry, and oppression reign unmolested and undisturbed. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Some scientists are very pedantic and therefore intolerant in their pedantry and they may say “the fellow should learn first how to express himself and then ask our attention.” Manhood of Humanity. To those unaccustomed to it, it has an air of somewhat wilful pedantry. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays He is clear, forcible, judicious, and profound, without pedantry or sectarian zeal. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Throughout New England, on the other hand, the characteristics of the Puritans, their piety, their intolerance, their simplicity of life, their pedantry, their love of equality and tendency to democratic institutions, remained unchanged. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners…. Historical Essays Those, he declared, are “victories, plantations, frontiers, staples of commerce, pedantry of schools, affectation of travellers, translations, fancy and style of court, vernility and mincing of citizens, pulpits, political remonstrances, theatres, shops, &c.” Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) Such rude shocks to mathematical faith have produced that love of formalism which appears, to those who are ignorant of its motive, to be mere outrageous pedantry. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays With all its spirit, this is generally dry—awkward without the excuse of learned pedantry—sometimes grand, very seldom tender—the rhythm more decided than the melody, which is often frivolous, often flat, rarely vocal. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 The pedantry of Grenville however saw in it only an infringement of British monopoly; and one of his first steps was to suppress this contraband trade by a rigid enforcement of the navigation laws. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 Until May, 1613, Ralegh had to endure this man's petty spite and disciplinary pedantry. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography But at the risk of incurring the charge of pedantry, I must point out that the news of Austerlitz did not come on him as one overwhelming shock: it filtered through by degrees. William Pitt and the Great War The final issue of the encounter between good sense, good nature, reason and folly, pedantry and pride, cannot be uncertain. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Indeed, James would have made a much better schoolmaster than king; and his pedantry and conceit were beyond all bounds, so that Bacon styled him, either in irony or sycophancy, "the Solomon of the age." A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges There was no room for pedantry, for the ostentatious display of learning, for pompousness, for affectation. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 The weightiness of thought, the enormous scope, the stateliness without pedantry or affectation, and the nobility of style, of one literary product History of the World. of his imprisonment insured it against any such casualty. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Both seem to be the work of several persons, one of whom, there can be little doubt, was Cotton Mather; for it is not easy to mistake the mingled flippancy and pedantry of his style. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America Something of the old romantic follies survived, and mingled strangely with the pretensions to science and the pedantries of erudition. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. He wrote three sevenths of that immortal production, and on every variety of subject, without any attempt to be eloquent or intense, without pedantry and without affectation. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges 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 His fancy could inspire in his Pilgrimage one of the loftiest appeals in all literature to Heaven from the pedantry of human justice or injustice. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography My comrades, like myself, saw nothing in this but absurd pedantry. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) In his treatise on French eloquence he endeavoured to elevate the art of public speaking above laboured pedantry to true human discourse. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. It was no mere pedantry, still less was it vulgar flattery, which influenced the Parliament in their offer to Cromwell of the title of king. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 Fads get currency. 198Dandyism, athleticism, pedantry of various kinds, reforms of various kinds, movements, causes, and questions are phenomena of fads around which groups cluster, formed of persons who have a common taste and sentiment. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals In his private relaxation he revived the tavern, and in his amorous pedantry he exhibited the college. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II His free language disdained to be confined within any park palings of pedantry. Dr. Johnson and His Circle At the worst he would have been capable of imposing a few paper pedantries, such as his foolish Civil Rights Bill, which would have been torn up before their ink was dry. A History of the United States The Master said, Matter outweighing art begets roughness; art outweighing matter begets pedantry. The Sayings Of Confucius A cultivated man of letters, an admirable scholar, he was as free from pedantry as he was incapable of idleness. The History of "Punch" There is a pedantry in these things, however, which is not only fulsome, but tends to defeat our very purpose. The Young Man's Guide He could be as free from pedantry of phrase as he always was from pedantry of thought. Dr. Johnson and His Circle That year saw the Black Famine in Ireland and its aggravation by the insane pedantry and folly of the British Government. A History of the United States The play itself shows the same typical inconsequence, the same freedom from the pedantry of logic. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 He also attacks the pedantry of music "so constructed that it appeals to the eye rather than the ear,—paper-work," a most praiseworthy assault on what is possibly the heaviest incubus on inspiration. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions And the husks of culture are pedantry and sciolism. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 At any rate she survived the voyage across the North Sea and told Mrs Fyne all about it, concealing nothing and receiving no rebuke—for Mrs Fyne’s opinions had a large freedom in their pedantry. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The pedantry of youth had disappeared—practical business had sobered him, and love had relieved him of his idolatry for books. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers The man knew when to break pedantry with humor. Unwise Child At a later time her Latin served her to rebuke the insolence of a Polish ambassador, and she could "rub up her rusty Greek" at need to bandy pedantry with a Vice-Chancellor. History of the English People, Volume IV He would discard the petty successes of pedantry, and would seek a loftier greatness. Julian Home It misses the point; it is pedantic, and pedantry is the one thing for which wary readers are on the look out in stories of antiquity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 We cannot, however, for a moment suppose that the limitations of the family imposed by legal pedantry had their counterpart in the natural affection of parents. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Again, by a curious perversity of official pedantry, the government insisted on each man who drew the black ticket in the abhorred lottery, performing his service in person. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot It is the Nemesis of pedantry to be always wrong. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. Surely it is the thought of Shakespeare that we want, and not the pedantry of minute scholarship regarding his material, useful as that is in its place. The Booklover and His Books An excessive regard for disused metaphor savours of pedantry: disregard is inelegant. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Dickens deliberately invents all that elderly pedantry in order to show up Paul’s childishness. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Let her criticise our pedantry, for it is this that constitutes our education of the present day. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot On the other hand the translator of Erasmus or Calvin was likely to have other and very different interests, which did much to save him from a narrow pedantry. Early Theories of Translation We have no educational system, no college, in which the art of reasoning is properly taught, although the shallow pedantry of Aristotelian logic has assumed to teach the art of reasoning. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 In extreme cases this may, of course, degenerate into mere pedantry. Human Traits and their Social Significance What does that is not art at all but pedantry. Milton The verse he hammered out in his lonely moments was grammatical, because his exemplars would have it so; but to have been grammatical in common speech would have seemed like a pedantry. Despair's Last Journey It is flippancy or pedantry like this which gives rise to the onslaughts of a Cobden or Herbert Spencer or an H. G. Wells and to the practical man’s suspicion of a classical education. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield In short, among us lads, busy with books and full of admiration of our own cleverness, he was delightful; and among other ostentatious pedantries such as prevail at college his passed unrebuked. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 An ethical theory that is only verbally concerned with the good, but does not in practice promote human welfare, is futile pedantry or worse. Human Traits and their Social Significance In his use of helps and commentaries he had a profound contempt of those peddlers of pedantry who try to make the words of eternal truth become merely the lingo of things local and temporary. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman This has been received as a settled doctrine in bibliography; but it is utter pedantry. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author If you are candid, and free from pedantry, you will doubtless reply that it is because you like to. The Moral Economy Dogmatic theology when divorced from practical interest is in danger of becoming mere pedantry; and ethical inquiry, if it has no dogmatic basis, loses scientific value and sinks into a mere enumeration of duties. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics He was bold, yet discreet; wise without pedantry; humble without religious affectation; firm without harshness; kind without weakness. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The recitation begins, one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painful pedantry, and sweetly torments us with invitations to his own inaccessible homes.’ Obiter Dicta Second Series 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 The laws of music in verse are very subtle, and, it must be added, very imperfectly ascertained; so that those who dogmatise on them generally end by slipping into fantasy or pedantry. Milton Hallam calls it “the first example of good English—pure and perspicuous, well chosen, without vulgarisms, and without pedantry.” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 He was indeed the most delightful of companions; a man of the world entirely free from worldliness, and a man of letters without the faintest trace of pedantry. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography The letter is replete with literature, though void of pedantry; a barren subject is embellished by its happy turns. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Free from all affectation and pedantry, still his whole nature seemed to revolt from anything slangish or low. Ernest Bracebridge School Days In another place he speaks of The posts that named the swallowed mile, which is a kind of pedantry. Figures of Several Centuries If the only definition of pedantry be ‘vain and ostentatious display of learning,’ I question if we may dismiss Lyly’s wealth of classical lore with the word ‘pedantry.’ The Bibliotaph and Other People I have nothing to do with your pedantry. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature There is more of this idle pedantry in France than in any country on the face of the globe: every thing is done with science, and nothing with knowledge. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 It is no pedantry which leads one to the English invasion for the tap-root of the transactions of the seventeenth century. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry For, accurately rendered—and accuracy in regard to Scripture language is not pedantry—the words run, 'Them which sleep through Jesus.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. The return to Nature with Pope and Addison and Swift meant, get rid of pedantry, be thoroughly rational, and take for your guide the bright common sense of the Wit and the scholar. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry: every man therefore is not fit to innovate. English Past and Present He was noted for his pedantry, and his odd whims about the education of his son. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 |
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