"Tediousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... academic tediousness work a more dire mischief than in the teaching of ethics. It is bad to have students forever shun the best books because of poor instruction in literature; the damage is worse when it is the subject of moral obligation which they associate with only the duller hours ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper
... Queene" was also the author of "The State of Ireland;" and if they shall quote against me with a sneer Lilly's "Euphues" itself, I shall only answer by asking—Have they ever read it? For if they have done so, I pity them if they have not found it, in spite of occasional tediousness and pedantry, as brave, righteous, and pious a book as man need look into: and wish for no better proof of the nobleness and virtue of the Elizabethan age, than the fact that "Euphues" and the "Arcadia" were the two popular ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... Our Navy when the War Began. Enlargement. Blockading. Difficulty and Success. Alternate Tediousness and Excitement. Blockade-running Tactics. Expeditions to Aid the Blockade. To Port Royal. To Roanoke Island. Confederate Navy. The Merrimac. Sinks the Cumberland, Burns the Congress. Monitor and Merrimac. An Era in Naval Architecture and Warfare. Operations before Charleston. ...
— History of the United States, Volume 4 • E. Benjamin Andrews
... Oh! torture! Imagine the tediousness of a journey in Italy. Mamma and Dina do not know Italian. I refused to use my tongue; I can scarcely use my limbs. By dint of complaining because I was not with my aunt, and saying: "Who asked you to come with us? I ought to go with my aunt. Why do you come with me?" I obtained ...
— Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) • Marie Bashkirtseff
... having else far to go. Reason accompanied with necessity persuaded the captain, who sent his lawful excuse and cause of this sudden departure unto Sir John Gilbert, by the boat of Dartmouth, and from thence the Golden Hind departed and took harbour at Weymouth. All the men tired with the tediousness of so unprofitable a voyage to their seeming, in which their long expense of time, much toil and labour, hard diet, and continual hazard of life was unrecompensed; their captain nevertheless by his great charges impaired greatly thereby, yet comforted in the goodness of God, and His undoubted ...
— Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland • Edward Hayes
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