"Uninstructive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... delivered as a lecture during the years 1877 and 1878. The exception was the paper called "Democracy," which he reprinted from his first work on Foreign Schools in 1861, where it had appeared as an Introduction. The juxtaposition is by no means uninteresting or uninstructive, though perhaps it is not entirely favourable to the idea of Mr Arnold's development as a zoon politicon. It has been said before that his earliest political writing is a good deal less fantastic and more sane than that of his middle period, and though "the last of life for ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury
... not be uninstructive to note the occurrence of the word romantic at several points in ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... for a stroll with the Century Book of Facts to walk with you, Algernon Swinburne," she declared suddenly. "Do you think in statistics party-nights, even? Haven't you any uninstructive thoughts for warm evenings?" ...
— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett
... a Cause-and-Effect Philosophy of Clothes, as of Laws, were probably a comfortable winter-evening entertainment: nevertheless, for inferior Intelligences, like men, such Philosophies have always seemed to me uninstructive enough. Nay, what is your Montesquieu himself but a clever infant spelling Letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in Eternity, in Heaven?—Let any Cause-and-Effect Philosopher explain, not why I wear such and such a Garment, obey ...
— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle
... An approximation to truth may be all that is attainable with our present knowledge, but there is no reason for thinking that is so remote, or (what is the same thing) that it requires so much future correction, as to be entirely useless and uninstructive. ...
— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
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