 | James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1894 - 392 pages
...years till 1825, Darwin's success was small. " The school as a means of education to me," he says, " as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history, was simply a blank." And then he adds, " During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 pages
...approved schoolboy fashion. And the result, as it appeared to his mature judgment, was simply negative. " The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." (I. p. 32.) On the other hand, the extraneous chemical exercises, which the head master treated so... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 900 pages
...solitary walks ; but what I thought about I know not. I often became quite absorbed, and once, while returning to school on the summit of the old fortifications...means- of education to me was simply a blank. During my wholo life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid... | |
 | 1897 - 284 pages
...PAGET. JOHN HUNTER LONG CALDERWOOD. 1728-1748. " I believe that I was in many ways a naughty boy. . . . The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." — DARWIN. WE who write this series of the " Masters or Medicine " must address all readers, and set... | |
 | Stephen Paget - Medical - 1897 - 308 pages
...PAGET. JOHN HUNTER LONG CALDERWOOD. 1728-1748. " I believe that I was in many ways a naughty boy. . . . The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank."—DARWIN. WE who write this series of the "Masters or Medicine " must address all readers,... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1902 - 528 pages
...opinion in later life that nothing could have been worse for the development of his mind than this school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught except a little ancient biography and history. During his whole life he was singularly incapable of mastering any language.... | |
 | Johannes Paulus Lotsy - Botany - 1906 - 412 pages
...generally I was aided." Sein Urteil über das was er in Dr. Butlers Schule lernte, war kurz und kräftig: „Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butlers school. as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught. except a little ancient geography... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - Education, Higher - 1907 - 224 pages
...much time wasted" is explained earlier, when he says, in his autobiography, speaking of his boyhood, "Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school [at Shrewsbury], as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 206 pages
...summit of the old fortifications round Shrewsbury, which had been converted into a public foot path with no parapet on one side, I walked off and fell...geography and history. The school as a means of education 6 to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly 1ncapable of mastering any... | |
 | George Iles - 1909 - 202 pages
...summit of the old fortifications round Shrewsbury, which had been converted into a public foot path with no parapet on one side, I walked off and fell...else being taught, except a little ancient geography ancl history. The school as a means of education 6 to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I... | |
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Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means- of education to me was simply a blank. 
