'Lover of wisdom,' 'lover of knowledge,' are titles which we may fitly apply to that part of the soul?
As one evidence how Wellesley haunted her imagination, I copy out a few of the titles to her papers in the various magazines.
One day when the boy was about fifteen, Fyodor Pavlovitch noticed him lingering by the bookcase, and reading the titles through the glass.
In one of his essays he says: "You shall not enumerate your brilliant acquaintances, nor tell me by their titles what books you have read.
It lay embedded in the wall of the garden-room, cloaked and concealed behind the shelves of a false book-case, which contained no more than the simulacra of books, just books with titles that had never yet appeared on any honest book.
As a rule, the verses were without titles; but "A Country Burial," "A Thunder-Storm," "The Humming-Bird," and a few others were named by their author, frequently at the end,--sometimes only in the accompanying note, if sent to a friend.
We need only peruse the titles of chapters in Aristotle's Ethics to be convinced that he ranks courage, temperance, magnificence, magnanimity, modesty, prudence, and a manly openness, among the virtues, as well as justice and friendship.
Ordinarily I call myself a simple bird-gazer, an amateur, a field naturalist, if you will; but on occasions like the present I assume--with myself, that is--all the rights and titles of an ornithologist proper, a man of science strictly so called.