Word: english
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purely arbitrary, and to expect one to load the memory with even a quarter of the innumerable idiomatic constructions in Plautus were an evident absurdity. Is it not, too, a somewhat novel idea that a thorough understanding of a Latin author is measured by ability to render an English version into the original, or the original into Greek...
HALLEY'S comet appears once in seventy-six years, and the President attended the exercises in English 6 last week. These two facts have no connection with each other...
Oxford and Cambridge. - The Inter-University match will be rowed this year over the usual course on April 5th. The latest news reports Cambridge as doing exceedingly well, and, according to the English papers, the race will be by no means such a gift for Oxford as it once appeared...
...ambitious Senior, wishing to be thought a Man of Wit as well as a Man of Letters, took English 5 as the best means of attaining his purpose...
...their foreheads. A strong feeling of sympathy seemed to draw them together; they called themselves the Army of the Conditioned, and preached a crusade against hypocrisy. I did not spend much time here. I only noticed that some of these booths were devoted to Natural History, and several to English and other modern languages...