Word: detective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Were we able to detect any signs of failing strength - but we do not - in him who has all his life guided us so well and taught us so many never-to-be-forgotten lessons in true wisdom, it would be unmanly and ungenerous to turn, as our critic does, and upbraid him for those weaknesses to which all mortal flesh is subject. Such ingratitude is unfilial, inhuman. Charles Sumner used to regretfully say, "The age of chivalry is gone." Were such dispositions and sentiments as our truculent critic's article shows common in our Senator's time, he might...
...elements of Latin as a living and flexible tongue, by familiar use in actual narrative and dialogue." Our readers may remember that we have already published an article which showed the unfairness of Mr. Reilley's insinuations against Harvard, and also that, so eager had this gentleman been to detect a mote in Mr. Allen's eye, he had not discovered the beam in his own eye; as, for instance, when he attacks Mr. Allen for using constructions which are sanctioned by the usage of Ovid and Horace. Of course, we do not suppose that the majority of our readers...
...Reiley's covert attack on Harvard, even supposing all his strictures on Mr. Allen's Latin were correct. But Mr. R. apparently has yet to learn, what every experienced Latin teacher does learn, that it is very unsafe to say that anything is bad Latin. He certainly has detected some serious mistakes, - one, over which he gets specially exultant, in the conjugation of a verb, - one so very bad that a candid reviewer would have recognized it at once, to use Macaulay's expression on a similar occasion, as a blunder that the greatest scholar might make in haste...
...then a tear to her own eye. Of course she has her little coterie of friends, and betimes her truelove; but she is loved but little by the first, and soon forgotten by the second. This little woman is a keen judge of character though, and can detect a gentilhomme from an artiste as readily as silk from satin. For the weary cash-boy she reserves her surplus of good-nature, but to the flippant fop she is frigidly civil. She seems never to tire, and lets to-morrow take care of itself in a charmingly reckless way. Why worry...
...river, nothing very noteworthy has occurred during the past week. The same number of enthusiasts nightly crowd the boat-house piazza, with open eyes and watches, trying, if possible, to detect the superiority of one crew over another; while the same earnest discussions go on in Style vs. Muscle...