"Barbarise" Quotes from Famous Books
... elsewhere, and can scarcely repeat too often, that a day will come when men of science will think their names disgraced, instead of honoured, by being used to barbarise nomenclature; I hope therefore that my own name may be kept well out of the way; but, having been privileged to found the School of Art in the University of Oxford, I think that I am justified in requesting any scientific writers who may look kindly upon this book, to add such ... — Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin |