Word: compactly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...incidents is such that we are bewildered as by a rumbling and unintelligible noise. In the great tragedies, except Lear, this element, although constantly appearing as a living background for the principal figures, is kept distinctly subordinate: Othello is almost classic in its unity and continuity; Macbeth, although less compact, still turns on a single event; while Hamlet draws its variety and intricacy from the character of the hero, and not from any great admixture of foreign matter. But in King Lear we have two distinct plots and a large number of indispensable personages. It is noticeable, however, that there...
Webster. Oration, entitled The First Settlement of New England, or an equivalent amount in the speeches,-Plymouth, Bunker Hill, Adams and Jefferson, Knapp Trial, Dartmouth College, Seventh of March (1850) Constitution a Compact, Hayne, Removal of the Deposits, Extension of Capital, Girard College, Ogden vs. Sanders...
...leading dailies that well repay careful reading, and preservation. At present these articles are buried in the ponderous, rarely opened volumes in the basement of the library. By the plan under consideration, all that is valuable in American and foreign papers can be collected, placed in a compact form, and properly indexed. All must realize the value of Poole's Index. The plan of "M" would in the end prove a still more valuable aid to many students in their daily work. To those who are doing original work in historical courses, and taking prominent parts in debating societies, this...
...rigidity to flexibility ? The time comes in a democracy when the people are completely masters, and do not value restrictions. The tendency to rigidity will therefore stop, and a larger authority be given the executive. A rigid constitution is an absolute necessity in a federation ; but a semi-international compact of England and her colonies had better be effected by a British Statute. The benefits of a flexible constitution, a more developed common law, temperate habits of compromise, etc., are shared only by the small ruling class ; thus the new voters in England, though teachable, will be ignorant. What...
...spirits, and the curves which some of them described would have baffled the most ingenious mathematician. At Bowdom square we disbanded, and the two upper classes rushed for the cars, but '87 and '88 kept on their march, the former leading in unregular lines, the latter following in a compact body. We cross the bridge, and near the scene of many a hard fought battle. '88 forms her lines more clumsily still; she is preparing for a rush. But where is '87? Her men extend in a long straggling line for a long mile ahead. What is the matter...