"Unedifying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... culture, as in the case of the British "Arts" degrees. The ordinary Oxford, Cambridge, or London B.A. has a useless smattering of Greek, he cannot read Latin with any comfort, much less write or speak that tongue; he knows a few unedifying facts round and about the classical literature, he cannot speak or read French with any comfort; he has an imperfect knowledge of the English language, insufficient to write it clearly, and none of German, he has ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... remark after you are gone on your strange taste for old-fashioned and long-winded and introspective books. "Julia has buried her husband and married her daughters, and since that she spends her time in reading. She is always reading foolish and unedifying books. She tells you every time she sees you that she is almost at the end of the silliest book that ever she read in her life. But the best of it is that it serves to dispose of a good deal of her spare time. She tells you all romances are sad ...
— Bunyan Characters (Second Series) • Alexander Whyte
... [Lat.] [Vergil]. propagandize, disinform. render unintelligible &c 519; bewilder &c (uncertainty) 475; mystify &c (conceal) 528; unteach. [person or government agent who misteaches] propagandist. Adj. misteaching &c v.; unedifying. Phr. piscem natare doces [Lat.]; the ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... Regency three times in one week to study the inward significance of her dances, he declared. He treated me to a learned discourse concerning them, and was furious when one journal, slightly puritanical in tone, perhaps, said that they were generally unedifying, and in one ...
— The Master Detective - Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles • Percy James Brebner
... had another sample of this very unedifying Chinese warfare. About an tour ago we came off the city of Nganching, the capital of the province of Aganhoci—the last station (so we are assured) in the hands of the Rebels. As we neared a pagoda, surrounded by a crenelated wall, we were fired upon two ...
— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin |
