Word: airs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...naive little theory of government which is developed from Utilitarianism, and pushed forward to assail open elections, would undoubtedly possess much of the popularity imputed to it if there were about it an air of greater plausibility. As it stands, it cannot fail to interest the Junior Class in their preparation for the semiannuals as an example of ambiguity of the middle term. Such an interpretation as is given to "greatest happiness" is enough to cause Bentham to turn in his grave. The position which this fallacy about government is intended to support is an entirely unwarranted assumption. It asserts...
Though through the balmy air of night...
Fair-limbed nymphs of air are ever dancing
...boundless air whence spirit, soul, emerged...
...murmured song was in the flowing air...