Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Comparison of the Estates General of France with the Parliament in England during the fourteenth century...
There was naturally a mighty cry of indignation after the game yesterday that when the public had been led to expect a chance would be given to make comparison of the relative strength of Harvard and Yale, Harvard should play practically a scrub team. We have endeavored to ascertain the position of the football managers in the matter, and believe the facts to be something like this: Manager Moore arranged the game with the understanding that Harvard would put her strongest eleven in the field and announcements were made accordingly. Late Wednesday night a meeting of the coaches was held...
...students of physical geography, as the horizon of observation and comparison gradually widens, are enabled to settle certain principles which are immutable in their relation; those, for example, of the distribution of mountain ranges, and of the climatic diversity of the eastern and western sides of continents. In just the same way, as the range of our study of literature widens, and the terra incognita diminishes to a few obscure points here and there, we are enabled to construct a tolerably perfect map of the globe of intellectual achievement and adventure and to color its boundaries, if only theoretically...
...think that to know the literature of another language, whether dead or living matters not, gives us the prime benefits of foreign travel. It relieves us from what Richard Lassels aptly calls a "moral Excommunication;" it greatly widens the mind's range of view, and therefore of comparison, thus strengthening the judicial faculty; and it teaches us to consider the relations of things to each other and to some general scheme rather than to ourselves; above all, it enlarges aethetic charity. It has seemed to me also that a foreign language, quite as much as a dead...
...other is by comparing the circumstances that the different nines had to meet, and estimating results in the light of these circumstances. Judging the work of the nine in the first way, one would have to say that it had been very poor; but we believe that such comparison is unjust. Judging their work in the second way, one sees that while sometimes they have done inexcusably poor work, they have on the whole done just about what was to be expected...