Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Australian forests have a dull, sombre appearance, as if the verdure were covered with dust. In the district of Gippslon the graceful ferns grow luxuriantly in picturesque forms and the trees reach a great height. Views were exhibited of the hot springs of New Zealand and of vegetation before and after the eruption, which covered the mountain districts with cinders, showing the complete destruction of all plant life. The lecture closed with a number of pictures of Japan, disclosing the effects of the disastrous earthquakes last fall...
...history we are awaiting the man who will give us literature and not a mere dull record of facts. It must be made interesting to avail much. Most writers speak of the pleasure to be derived from reading. The ascetic element in New Englanders demands more than that. Therefore, it is the general good to be derived from it which I wish to emphasize. However, it is not only the writers of truths which are attractive; Voltaire, in spite of his petty foibles, Sydney Smith and Lamb with their delightful humor, Heine and Kant; they all have their virtues...
...article is devoted to a discussion of the various objections to the German system which present themselves most prominently to a citizen of the United States. In finishing, Professor Peabody remarks that the American people, who are certainly the quickest-witted of the nations, will not long be so dull as to keep a protective tariff on our way of municipal work for the sake of party politics. It may be a wise policy for us to shut out of the country the importation of good Saxon stockings, but at least we might have free trade in good Saxon ideas...
...comes to minister, warrior or statesman He makes deeds and words strong and divine. In every man there is potential greatnes and when God's influences are brought to bear on this it springs and grows, and the mean man becomes broad and honorable, the weak, strong and the dull, wise. God is the God of all and no man can approach fulness of stature until he realizes his dependence on God and trusts in Him, not as having some vogue authority over men in general, but loves Him as his own God and his own friend...
...used for the artists to stand on. Several songs, speeches, and specialty "acts" used up the evening very pleasantly. After a good deal of confusion and preliminary practice with pillows, +++alises and boots the fellows gradually retired and about midnight the car was quiet. Christmas Day was rather dull. The late hours, etc., were beginning to tell on the men and most of them slept nearly all day. They reached St. Louis about 9 and were driven to the Southern Hotel. By this time several of them were more or less affected with the "Grippe" and next...