Professors

Examples

• I have heard professors reply that it wasn't their business to discuss human nature but to record and interpret economic and political facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Professors Kirchhoff and Bunsen map Solar Spectrum, and establish Spectrum Analysis. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One of the professors at Madame Beck's: a very cross little man. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Sch?ffer cast a font of Greek type, and used this in printing a copy of Cicero’s De Officiis, which was eagerly bought by the professors and students of the great University of Paris. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The envy of rivals soon spread false reports about him, and the professors at Pisa refused to accept the results of his studies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Now are we to maintain that all these and any who have similar tastes, as well as the professors of quite minor arts, are philosophers? Plato. The Republic.
• Galileo laughingly wrote Kepler that the professors of philosophy were afraid to look through his telesc ope lest they should fall into heresy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was poured into him by all his professors; Hueffer (_op. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A few months later was published Cowley's proposition for an endowed college with twenty professors, four of whom should be constantly traveling in the interests of science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• After the ceremony of presentation, an oration, or discours, was to follow from one of the professors. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Professors Draper and Morse make first Photographic Portraits. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She won't think so when she has a literary husband, and a dozen little professors and professorins to support. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was a royal college; its professors and fellows (as we may call them) were appointed and paid by Pharaoh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The arts wherein the professors employ themselves. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth, are provided with grave and learned professors, and their several deputies. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But these cares of Clerval were made of no avail when I visited the professors. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• One of my first duties on my recovery was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In the field during this decade also labored the German professors Gauss and Weber, and Baron Schilling of Russia. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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