Classics

Examples

• It describes a sensation in your little nose associated with certain finicking notions which are the classics of Mrs. Lemon's school. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We would work up the classics famously. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His best exercises were translations from the classics into English verse. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They began with classics. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• If the Greek classics are to be read with any benefit by modern men, they must be read as the work of men like ourselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The law was codified, the literary examination system was revised, and a complete and accurate edition of all the Chinese classics was produced. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The emperors and dynasties might come and go; the mandarins, the examinations, the classics, and the traditions and habitual life remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His school studies had not much modified that opinion, for though he did his classics and mathematics, he was not pre-eminent in them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Well, but now, Casaubon, such deep studies, classics, mathematics, that kind of thing, are too taxing for a woman--too taxing, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Without the slightest paradox one may say that the classicalist is most foreign to the classics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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