Word: constant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sloth. Not pessimism, but to be cowed into pessimism or anything else, therefore, is the evil. I question whether pessimism, as such, does not tend to increased activity of mind, whatever blight it may cast upon the moral sense, as involving critical examination into things ordinarily unquestioned, and a constant warfare with the received optimism. I might quote the extraordinary activity of the German Schopenhauer; and as to the general futility of any philosophical theory in stopping the processes of thought, the name of Spinoza is instructive as a believer in the doctrine, of all others, to stop effort...
...These batteries are in form like the Bunsen Battery; the Bichromate Battery, though improving little on the Bunsen in cleanness, yet gets rid of the fumes which make the latter battery so disagreeable for use. The Ammonic Nitrate Battery gives forth no fumes, and is perfectly clean, is more constant than the Bunsen, and of about the same strength. In the glass cell are used sulphuric acid and water, with zinc; and in the porous cup gas carbon and a saturated solution of ammonic nitrate in nitric acid. The important improvements made by Professor Gibbs in the way we have...
...self-respect and pride will permit him to regard with nothing but contempt. The degradation involved in a peaceful struggle for dollars and cents with your fellow-man is, however, hardly equal to the humiliation of a life-long squabble with your butcher and your tailor, and of a constant sense of your inability to meet the demands of those importunate tradesmen; and before you determine that you are too good to work, you will do well to assure yourself that you are provided with means enough to employ workmen...
...thought that these four electives would cover all the branches of letter-writing, and would be of more practical advantage to the student than any course now given in college. Persons not connected with the College in any way are apt to think that there must be a constant supply of news on hand, and that the only thing to be guarded against in writing letters is the fact that having so much to say the letters might be too long...
Both clubs gave evidence of the constant practice which they have been under for the past month...