Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LEVY'S lecture before the French Club next Monday will begin at half past seven...
...better, because it is more cheerful, and hence more healthy, to exercise in company than in solitude. Once provided with a set of gloves, you are ready at any time for five minutes' lively sport, - your own room the arena. The chairs and table are pushed back and you begin. As you meet your opponent's shoulder-hit and cross-counter by a ready guard, or escape them by a quick toss of the head, or by a light step backwards, you smile in conscious power, and feel a keen pleasure in thinking how the blows would sting...
...world, and the world only awaits their coming to rectify its past errors. It is not till years of obstacle and failure have convinced us of the insignificant influence which our human life has on the slow and ponderous progress of the world, that the delusion ceases, and we begin to regard our life in its true relations to what has gone before and is to come. Whatever may be our philosophy or religious belief, the fact of the dissolution of the body at the end of a space of time which is as nothing to the eternity which...
...prominent chess-clubs in this country, I should judge that the forming of a club, and keeping the members interested in its proceedings, was a thing easily undertaken, and on account of the interest that has been lately manifest, it appears to me that now is the time to begin. It is not so evident, however, in which way it is best to commence, and on thinking the subject over, it has occurred to me to suggest a few different ways of doing this, hoping that in the following number, both of your paper and of the Advocate, they will...
There are still many points of the management in which a change might be made for the better, but as the club is but just fairly under way, this is hardly the time to begin complaining...