"Come to the fore" Quotes from Famous Books
... of education, the provision for which is on a most generous scale, carried out with a determination at which the older countries of the Eastern Hemisphere have only arrived by slow degrees and painful experience. Of course the Americans, being young, and having come to the fore, so to speak, full-fledged, have been able to profit by the lessons which they have derived from their neighbors—though it is none the less to their credit that they have profited so well and so ... — Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 • Various |