Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ever think of doing any of that general reading, without a knowledge of which no man can be said to be truly cultivated, not to say educated. To how many is our library merely a place from which to obtain "ponies" and theme-books. The broad principles of self-education, with the college courses and advantages as accessories merely, seem to be lost sight of in the pursuit of inferior ends...
...floors are broad and the vaults are high...
...were sitting, I had fully made up my mind to break my long silence and ask him if he knew anything about Eliot's Indian College or Harvard's only Indian graduate, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck Indus, when the door suddenly opened, and, on looking around, I discovered that it was broad daylight, that the old man had vanished, and that the new-comer was Jones. Yes, Jones, back with a racking headache, to beg for the homoeopathic remedy of "a hair of the dog that bit him." I told him the whole story without reserve, and asked his opinion. "Well," said...