 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Birthday books - 1889 - 482 pages
...on his mother's portrait is blistered with tears. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TAELE. NOVEMBER 16. The Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy which many readers will at once acknowledge. There are races of scholars among us, in which aptitude... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American literature - 1891 - 544 pages
...life; but very few of them ever become great scholars. A scholar is, in a large proportion of cases, the son of scholars or scholarly persons. That is...is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge. There are races of scholars among us,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 518 pages
...life; but very few of them ever become great scholars. A scholar is, in a large proportion of cases, the son of scholars or scholarly persons. That is...is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge. There are races of scholars among us,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 552 pages
...life; but very few of them ever become great scholars. A scholar is, in a large proportion of cases, the son of scholars or scholarly persons. That is...is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge. There are races of scholars among us,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 540 pages
...life; but very few of them ever become great scholars. A scholar is, in a large proportion of cases, the son of scholars or scholarly persons. That is...other young man is. He comes of the Brahmin caste of Nenu England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Bookbinding - 1894 - 240 pages
...on his mother's portrait is blistered with tears. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. NOVEMBER 16. The Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy which many readers will at once acknowledge. There are races of scholars among us, in which aptitude... | |
 | Herman Churchill - 1902 - 188 pages
...life; but very few of them ever become great scholars. A scholar is, in a large proportion of cases, the son of scholars or scholarly persons. That is exactly what the other young man is. He comes from the Brahmin caste of Hew England. ** * » There are races of scholars among us, in which aptitude... | |
 | Arthur Dendy - Biology - 1924 - 252 pages
...not to recognise is mere stupidity." A little later, speaking of the hero of the novel, he says : " He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This...is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge. There are races of scholars among us,... | |
 | Arthur Dendy - Biology - 1924 - 258 pages
...not to recognise is mere stupidity." A little later, speaking of the hero of the novel, he says : " He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This...is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge. There are races of scholars among us,... | |
 | Peter D. Hall - History - 1984 - 340 pages
...force of will and character, and become great scholars. A scholar is, in a large proportion of cases, the son of scholars or scholarly persons. That is...is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge. There are races of scholars among us,... | |
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He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy referred to, and which many readers will at once acknowledge. 
