"Educe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... independent of the language current among those with whom they live. They wish neither to applaud nor to revile their age: they wish to know what it is, what it can give them, and whether this is what they want. What they want, they know very well; they want to educe and cultivate what is best and noblest in themselves: they know, too, that this is no easy task—[Greek: chalepon], as Pittacus said, [Greek: chalepon esthlon emmenai]—and they ask themselves sincerely whether their age and its literature can assist them in the attempt. ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various
... other crimes, to what extent laudable and lovable for noble manful orthodoxy and other virtues;—and whether the lesson his life had to teach us is not much the reverse of what the Religious Newspapers hitherto educe ...
— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle
... are wholly deficient; but these advantages can bring out in the best light all the qualities they do possess. The glow of a generous imagination, the grasp of a profound statesmanship, the enthusiasm of a noble nature,—these no practice could educe from the eloquence of Lumley Lord Vargrave, for he had them not; but bold wit, fluent and vigorous sentences, effective arrangement of parliamentary logic, readiness of retort, plausibility of manner, aided by a delivery peculiar for self-possession and ease, a ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
