Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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The benefits are the amount and nature of the knowledge of the languages studied, a certain acquaintance with the character and customs of the people, and the experience gained, beyond what the College confers.
Two or three incidents, illustrating the character of Agassiz, have recently come under our notice. A lady tells us that, on his way to the Museum, he often stopped to exhibit his most valuable specimens to her little children; these he was in the habit of carrying to and fro...
As the happy, homeward-bound student is whirled along towards his Christmas fireside, his mind filled with anticipations of Germans and New Year's calls, does he once think of the handful of his comrades whom circumstances of one sort or another keep behind in these loved but somewhat desolate...
We thus see that the conquest of England was but one of a series of great preparations then being made throughout Europe for the accomplishment of a single purpose. William is reduced to the stature of ordinary men. He now appears to have been little more than a greedy dare...
Regard Hildebrand as only an able and resolute man, who took advantage of, though he did not make his opportunities, and there is enough in his character to impress you with a sense of its unusual dignity; nor can you follow the history of the wretched Emperor with unbated breath...