Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...eight or nine of them within the past few days. Some of these books may be merely borrowed; but even in that case the element of dishonesty in the act is only less in degree than if they have been stolen. The books are placed in the library as common property. The removal of any of them, and it is always the most important works that are taken, means that hundreds of men are robbed of privileges which belong to them. It is barely possible that some one may have taken these books without realizing the real gravity...
...Dyke said, "There are two general principles in regard to the gospel which I think every person of common sense will admit. The first is the principle of adaptation, and the second is the principle of permanence...
...Hill was born in New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 7, 1818. His father was a tanner, and at one time served as judge of the court of common pleas. Dr. Hill was left an orphan at a very early age, and his success in after life was due entirely to his own efforts. When twelve years old he was apprenticed to a printer for three years. After he had served his term, he attended the Lower Dublin Academy near Philadelphia for a year, and then was apprenticed to an apothecary in New Brunswick for another twelvemonth. In 1839 he entered...
...Party adlesion tends to purify politics; under a strict party vote. - (a) Deals would be eliminated. - (b) Bribery would be less frequent. - (c) Factional strife would be less common. - (d) Conscientious men more influential when in than when out of a party; H. H. Darling, Harvard Monthly...
...Revels of Mon Marcel" is one of the most powerful stories which has appeared in the Monthly for some time. Its author, Austin Smith, has slipped out of the beaten tracks and given us an original and strongly-executed sketch of a man who is entirely removed from the common-place, for Dufont, the hero of the tale, has an individuality so strongly marked that he rouses one's interest at the opening of the story. He was a man who "at times looked like a devil that had been chained up by society and taught to walk...