Word: eared
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mother remarked in Mr. Faye's ear...
...with the instructor, and three outside - will be required, and the method of teaching is the same as that used by Professor Sauveur in teaching French. The instructor writes a character upon the blackboard, and the student pronounces it after him until it is firmly fixed. Great delicacy of ear and eye is required, and much mechanical drudgery must be endured. Patience is the first requisite. No interpreter is needed until some advance has been made, and even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive Course in Colloquial and Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge...
...knowledge with the minimum of grind"? Happy thought! Behold a royal road to learning! Let all your friends be grinds, - grinds pure, undefiled. Their brains, you know, when crammed for an examination, are only sponges dipped in a saturated solution of knowledge: what does not drip into your ear you can easily wring out. At last I have found the key to - "Your turn, if you pleas...
Soft in the listening ear of the stream would I whisper my longings...
...next lecture in the Natural History Society Course will be given next Thursday evening by Dr. Clarence J. Blake, on "The Ear and the Telephone...