"Instructive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are continued until three or four o'clock in the morning; and even when they close, fresh ones open to the inquisitive novice. But as a description of all of them, however slight, would require a volume, the contents of which, however instructive, would be by no means pleasing, we make our bow, and drop ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... The interesting and instructive character of this sensational narrative, which we cull from the traditions of a past generation, must cover the shortcomings of the pen that has labored to present it ...
— Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly
... It will then be instructive to turn backward the telescope of that advanced age, with its lenses of more spiritual mentality, indicating the gain of intellectual momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian Science as planted in the pathway of this generation; to ...
— Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) • Mary Baker Eddy
... PELAGIUS. It is very instructive to consider the principles on which this strange decision was founded. Since the question was purely philosophical, one might suppose that it would have been discussed on natural principles; instead of ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper
... and ended only with his departure from it for the continuing city and the Father's House. The joint ministry of himself and Mr. Henry Craik has been traced already in the due order of events; but the development of church-life, under this apostolic ministry, furnishes instructive lessons which yield their full teaching only when gathered up and grouped together so as to secure unity, ...
— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson
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