scholar

• This "revenge of God," in French scholar Gilles Kepel's phrase, has seemingly begun to be felt even in secular Hollywood. —  City Journal
• The book was gravely dedicated to the New York Historical Society, and it is said to have been quoted, as authentic history, by a certain German scholar named Goeller, in a note on a passage in Thucydides. —  Brief History of English and American Literature
• In the thirteenth century, the Dominican Order forbade all ecclesiastics to have any connection with medicine; and when we remember that the policy of the Church had made it impossible for any learned man to enter any other profession, the only resource left for a scholar was the Church; so effectively did the Church kill all scientific endeavors The Reformation made no sudden change in the sacred theory of medicine. —  The Necessity of Atheism
• Mr. Hardy removed the obstacle by assuming that Aldus made changes in the proof; but the changes are numerous; they are not too numerous for a scholar who can mark up his galleys free of cost, but they are decidedly too numerous if the scholar is also his own printer Merrill, in a brilliant and searching article,[11] entirely demolishes Hardy’s argument. —  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York
• The priest becomes a form; the attorney a statute-book; the mechanic a machine; the sailor a rope of the ship In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. —  Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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