Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although the and ??? theories are too chimerical to be a ken seriously. It is not probable ??? believes in them...
...Hospital, by whom they were very kindly received, and a thorough search of the very numerous monuments of the hospital was made by direction of Sir Arnold White, the Chapter Clerk of St. Katharine's. The result, now first made public, was the bringing to light of the original counterpart lease from the hospital to 'John Harvard, Clerke, and Thomas Harvard, Citizen and Cloth worker of London,' of certain tenements in the parish of Allhallows, Barking, the lease bearing date July 29th, 1635, and the counterpart being executed by John Harvard and Thomas Harvard. A feature of no little interest...
...discovery of which was on this wise. At the suggestion of the writer, and with the kind and ready assent of the hospital authorities, search was made among the monuments, under the direction of Sir Arnold W. White, chapter clerk. The result was the unearthing of the original counterpart of the lease, dated July 29, 1635, by which the hospital demised to "John Harvard Clerke and Thomas Harvard Citizen and Clothworker of London," certain tenements in the parish of All hallows, Barking; and the counterpart is executed by John Harvard and Thomas Harvard...
...their studies, and how thereby they formed educational centres. In the middle ages there was, in truth, much of that democratic spirit which we are prone to attribute to our own day. The guilds, the monasteries, and the orders of the templars were voluntary associations, and have their counterpart in many of our organizations of to-day. The word University is often missed or misunderstood. The latin Universitas means nothing more than corporation. Universities are but corporations. There was not any necessary assemblage of brain or wit in one place in order to form an University...
...called a "filthy and mendacious contemporary." Such language is in the first place unmerited. It is, moreover, very unbecoming and discourteous for respectable journals to indulge in spiteful warfare. We sometimes see such vituperation in our less civilized college exchanges, but we had never expected to find its counterpart in a newspaper which usually has an air of eminent respectability...