The Lectures of a Certain Professor (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Lectures of a Certain ProfessorIt is said, noscitur a sociis - and I believe it might be said of any one with at least equal truth - you may know him by his day-dreams. In the application of the former proverb, it is by no means necessary that the subject of your speculations have companions at all. If he have none, we may decide infallibly, unless the circumstances be very peculiar, what manner of man he is. So in the latter case too. If your man has never had a day-dream, I could read you his character in a twinkling. L, for one, would have as little to do with Him as I could help. I should have an unpleasant pre sentiment of corners on his mind, against which Iwould ear to knock either my head or my heart. If I could, I would appoint him bosom friend to my direst enemy - I would set him to criticise a rival professor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.