Word: boundlessness
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...first the Italians were too bewildered by the boundless vista of antiquity which opened upon them to consider what was the special feature in it which attracted them. But gradually they found that what they cared for most in the ancient masterpieces was the perfection of their form. Henceforth they studied them for their form alone. Not for their matter. There were exceptions, of course, such as Laurentius Valla, Polilian, Pontanus, Marullus, Ficino, and his fellow Platonists, "amiable browsers in the Medicean park," as George Eliot calls them; but, on the whole, the great aim of Italian scholars...
...boundless, endless...
...plan to train men in writing upon barren and uninviting subjects. We doubt if this is so, however. If not it would seem as if the list given out for so large a section could easily be extended. The field from which selections might be made is practically boundless. The list of subjects given out at other colleges as announced in the local college papers proves this fact. In default of other resources we should imagine this an excellent magazine from which to draw supplies of this kind...
They now came in for the ninth inning, and every effort was made to increase the lead. Hall led off with a long two-baser, at which the enthusiasm was boundless. Burt went out, Dilts to Chase. Bean struck the church for a two-baser, bringing Hall in and earning Harvard's second run. Le Moyne flied out to Dilts, Coolidge hit safely to centre, bringing in Bean. Olmsted made another drive to left for a single base and reached second on a passed ball, and Baker sent him home by a two-baser. Nichols sent up a high...
...being written on one inch of cuff, will solve all problems of the differential calculus; and, finally, I invented a mathematical motor. Without telling the secret of this (which of course I intend to keep to myself) I can tell that, impelled by this motor, one can sail through boundless realms of space with the speed of thought...