Word: braved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first work to be read in French 8, after the mid-years, will be About's "Le Roman d'un Brave Homme...
...length cease to be regarded and spoken of as a buffoon with a foul mouth and mind." He aims to have this author, the contemporary of Luther, recognized, as Shakespeare and and Milton are, for what he is really worth, for his stout heart, his cheerfulness and his brave face. He follows Urqhart's translation, but does not hesitate to improve it whenever...
...that our boys of the upper and middle classes, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, pass a great deal too much of their time at play. By play I mean rowing, cricket, foot ball, lawn tennis, and other athletic exercises generally. Athletic training turns out thousands of brave, brawny, healthy young Englishmen, who are utterly unable to earn their own living at home, and who, if they emigrated, could, as a means of support, only look to manual labor, in which they would have to compete with Cornish miners, Lancashire navies and Irish peasants...
...brave the storm I did not dare...
...coins contains the liead of Gordianus Africanus II., who reigned forty days. Another shows the ill-fated features of a sixty-six-day emperor. Had these monarchs been as slow in securing their counterfeit presentments as a Harvard senior of today is, the collection would be poorer by several brave heads. Another larger but more miscellaneous numismatic collection consist of several hundred English, French, Spanish, East Indian and Chinese coins. Although most of these are later by several centuries than the Roman coins, they are still not so well preserved...