Word: encompassed
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There is nothing in the world more elusive than culture. One cannot define or circumscribe it, for it has no precise bounds. One cannot analyze it, for its components are infinite. One cannot describe it, for it is Protean in shape. An attempt to encompass its meaning in words is like trying to seize the air in the hand, when one finds it is everywhere except within one's grasp. Culture is like what the ancient Hebrews called wisdom in that it has no fixed habitation, but is all-pervading and imponderable in its essence. Everyone who has experienced...
...feel like thanking God that my home lies three thousand miles further on, and in what is called the wilderness. Should you get as far as Oregon in your travels, go to my father's. You will find rest there, and room - as much land as you can encompass in a day's ride, - and I promise you there the respect due a stranger to our shores, to your attainments, your industry, and your large, generous and tranquil nature. Or should you decide to return here, and not bear further abuse, come to my housetop and abide with me, where...
Rise from the shore, encompass all the view...