Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second meeting of the Art Club, last evening, Dr. William Everett of Quincy, addressed the Club in "Certain Limitations of Art in Relation to its Subjects." A work of art, Dr. Everett said, was commonly judged according to its morale, or its technique. In relation to Art, the subject of Propriety was first discussed, mainly in illustration of the Washington Monument. Dr. Everett drew attention to the fact that when the event was small, in order that it may be remembered, the monument commemorative of the event must be of great account. But that when the monument was a perfect...
...Boswell's heart could stand a good deal of trouble without breaking, and within two years after his wife's death, he writes that he is to meet a certain "young lady of about seven-and-twenty. Liely and gay, but of excellent principles, insomuch that she reads prayers every Sunday evening to the servants in her father's family. 'Let me see such a woman' cried I; and accordingly I am to see her. She has refused young and fine gentlemen. 'Bravo' cried I, 'we see then what her taste is'. Here then I am my flattering self...
...letters, I think Boswell's real self can be seen. He was fickle and impetuous: he was careless of others: he was vain beyond measure. But he was so open in his likes and dislikes, so frank in thought, and at times so generous, that we must see a certain amount of good in him after all. Boswell is a queer compound of openness, foolishness, and immorality. His whole life may be summed up in the single phrase he used when telling why he was a sceptic: "My scepticism," he wrote, "was not owing to thinking wrong...
...cable despatch from England says that one of the men of the Cambridge crew is hopelessly ill, and as it is too late to properly train a substitute, Oxford is certain to win the university boat race...
...other this year there seems to have been less difficulty in writing them experienced by the present seniors than by their predecessors. Whether it is a proper pride in doing class work or the energy of the genial class secretary which has effected this, we do not know, but certain it is that a large proportion of the lives, very much larger than usual, have already been written and handed in. Some are still not done, and as the secretary wishes to have a complete set of these lives, it will be well for the delinquent seniors to remember that...