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Word: dura (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1882-1882
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...connection with the essay on Mr. Gladstone, the following from Mr. Emerson's "English Traits" is interesting. He is speaking of English university men: "When born with good constitutions they make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box-Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys; and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture...

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