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... class, while in mathematics he was superior, not only to every boy in school, but to any boy of the same age that I have ever had in any school. But this boy received from the Professor only a second or third-rate rank for mathematical indications, while highly praised for linguistics, in which ...

— In the School-Room - Chapters in the Philosophy of Education • John S. Hart

... his monumental work on British Nudibranchiate Mollusca, published by the Ray Society when Sir Charles, having resigned the Governorship of East Africa, was Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University. Equally admired are his researches into Chinese linguistics and his monograph, the first in the language, on that most obscure subject, Finnish grammar.[88] Will it be believed that in her account of the Balkan tangle Miss Durham does not quote Sir Charles Eliot, but Mr. Horatio Bottomley? ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein

... Depending on linguistics, it has recently been maintained that, among the Aryans at least, the imagination created at first only momentary gods (Augenblicksgoetter).[88] Every time that primitive man, in the presence of a phenomenon, experienced a perceptible emotion, he translated it by ...

— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot