Word: comfortableness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...able to say that during my several terms of office it has been my pleasure, as well as my duty, to conform to so agreeable a feature of our fundamental law. The calls of the university, from time to time, relative to many matters conducive to the comfort and convenience of its officers and resident students, have ever been most cheerfully met by our municipality; seventy-one acres of valuable land in our very midst (not taxable, of course), yet we regard the great university, so its influence, as reflecting the highest honor upon our city...
...series of events in the career of the Prophet. It was obvious that my poor uncomplaining old friend was really very miserable. The "thornless loto trees" were all thorny to him, and the "tal'h trees with piles of fruit, the outspread shade, and water outpoured" could not comfort him in his really very natural shyness. A happy thought occurred to me. In early and credulous youth I had studied the works of Cornelous youth I had studied the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Petrus de Abano. Their lessons, which had not hitherto been of much practical service, recurred...
...feeble and sickly, the mind is either checked and hampered in its impulses, or, attempting to ride them boldly forward, breaks down altogether. The habit of being beforehand with whatever a man undertakes is an important element of success. The only sure method of securing intellectual thrift and comfort of doing what one does without distraction. and so of doing it in the most healthy condition of one's faculties, is to establish the habit of anticipation in work. Have some fresh intellectual acquisition always in hand. Some students, after getting fairly settled, merely work on from yea to year...
...offence which used once to be described as "dusting a bobby," but which in these days is no longer spoken of in jocular terms. A spiteful assault committed by several young men upon a solitary policeman is, in fact, not a funny thing at all, but it is a comfort to observe that such unmanly freaks have grown comparatively rare of late years...
...latter half of the afternoon, and there is therefore much crowding and inconveniencing of one another by those exercising. Of course it is impossible to help this, but still it can be in a great measure mitigated if everyone will only think a little less of his own comfort and have an eye to that of others. If each person on finishing a certain exercise will at once move off and give the next person a chance, everything will go right. At present there is a tendency on the part of some to monopolize certain pieces of apparatus...