Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...especially during the latter part of the day, have grown so numer-out of late that they are rapidly becoming nuisances. No one objects because a moderate number of people use the College yard as a thoroughfare; a good many object to having the yard turned into a public common...
...poetry alone that these long and short syllables and this continued utterance have their significance. The cadence of common speech, which was not very different from that of the verses in the play, was entirely different from any which we have in English. Very much of the effect of English speech depends upon slurring unemphatic words and dwelling upon those more important. This tends to produce a jerky and irregular utterance not customary in other European languages. In Latin, as well as in all other languages that have quantity, the length of syllables is determined beforehand and even common speech...
Leaving out of account the crudities unavoidable in a purely amateur performance and the disproportionate prominence that any public effort not in the common line almost necessarily acquires, the production of the PHORMIO at Sanders Theatre is well worthy the attention of persons interested in classical education,- a category which ought to include all persons interested in any education...
...peculiar aptitude. But Europe tends constantly to become more and more one community, and we tend to become Europeans instead of merely Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, so whatever aptitude or felicity one people imparts into spiritual work, gets imitated by the others, and thus tends to become the common property of all. Therefore anything so beautiful and attractive as the natural magic I am speaking of, is sure, nowadays, if it appears in the productions of the Celt's, or of the English, or of the French, to appear in the productions of the Germans also, or in the productions...
...common belief among a certain class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...