His opsimathy meant that he was over 60 before he entered college, and over 70 before he earned his doctorate.

The fact is that a considerable number of Rembrandt's original coppers are still in material existence, though the greater part of them have been so much deteriorated by wear, and so injured by retouchings and rebitings, as to be artistically valueless.

Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.

He approached the problem nonscientifically, but intelligently.