Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reviews the "Bubaiyat" and presents the most thoughtful work of the number. Although an optimist might quarrel with many of the conclusions drawn as representing Kayyam in too dark a light, the conclusions are by no means fanciful, and are upon their face the result of deep study and clear ideas. It is a question, however, whether the Tent-maker of Naishapur can be so systematically interpreted throughout. Is it true that a thread of despair runs through the mystic lines of Omar and darkens all their thought? One long magazine article has been written upon the concluding line alone...
...them. The desire to avoid pain is one of our first acquisitions. For the most part this avoidance is most marked when the effect follows speedily on the cause. When there is considerable lapse of time between cause and effect, our perception of the result is not so clear. The use of alcoholic liquors, opium and tobacco are examples of this fact. We know how much the Greeks and Romans thought of exercise for promoting health. Cleanliness was a virtue well established among these nations. Lack of cleanliness is the cause of a large proportion of the deaths...
SHOOTING CLUB. If the weather is clear the postponed shoot will occur...
...judged or ill adapted, ill timed, or ill taught, but none the less inexorably they fall on just and unjust. The wastes of choice affect the shiftless and the dull, - men who cannot be harmed much by being wasted. The wastes of prescription ravage the energetic, the clear-sighted, the original, the very classes which stand in the greatest need of protection...
...writing a criticism which inevitably takes up more than the half hour which we were assured would be sufficient, provided the work is done conscientiously. But as the matter now stands, the student is obliged to write about six lines on such topics as the following, sentences, figures, clearness, and vocabulary. In these six lines he is supposed to state exhaustively the ideas these different headings convey to his mind when applied to the theme. As minor grievance, he has to write on unglazed paper. Now no man can say in a clear manner what he honestly thinks...