...felt much as did Moliere's M. Jourdain, who was surprised to learn from his professors of languages that he " had been talking prose all his life without knowing it." Taking the social machine apart simply to name its component parts were much like analyzing an apple...

...are like the man, who went to school to learn that literature was divided into prose and poetry and that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. Theoretically abrogated, dogma is practically and uncritically accepted. Lacking criticism, we are...

...of this generation may think of his country as in the position of the Frenchman who suddenly found that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. Mr. Myers is a writer schooled in tireless research for facts and their presentation without regard...

...than he knows he knows. M. Jourdain (in Moliere's play) learned in middle life, to his astonishment, that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. My inquirer had talked pure Latin all his life, though he did not know it. I am not referring to English...

...—Catholic Truth (London), May-June, 1927. FAMILIAR MISQUOTATIONS. M. JOURDAIN was astonished to find that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. Had he lived on this side of the Channel, he would have proceeded, in due course, to learn — no doubt...

...be acquainted with Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain who, when they began to teach him prose, discovered that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. Similarly, many Chess players have been using some Chess technique all their playing lives without...

...are like the man, who went to school to learn that literature was divided into prose and poetry and that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. Theoretically abrogated, dogma is practically and uncritically accepted. Lacking criticism, we are...

...this interesting paper, I felt rather in the position of the gentleman in Moliere's play, who found that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it I was not aware that we were so constantly being cleared, in one shape or another. I say nothing about...

...or less like the hero of MolieYe's comedy, who was astonished to find when he arrived at middle age that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. Now if we analyze your proceedings in the treatment of caries, and thus relieving the painful or inflamed...

...giving it such a name. A famous person in a famous play was interested, perhaps even pleased, to find that he had been talking 'prose' all his life without knowing it, but an 'international legal personality' is more alarming than ordinary prose. Here is a potency of...