Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region of the tenth parallel, but in that case we should still have the shingles. Let some enthusiast take the matter in hand...
...Western enthusiast would liken our temporary passivity to the falcon's poise in the air before his unerring swoop; a Harvard indifferentist rejects - the simile...
...wholly negative and destructive, it may be shown that the function of a good newspaper is to be critical in its spirit. It is the tribunal before which the folly, incompetence, and crime that are enacting around us are to be summoned. I have somewhere heard of an enthusiast who started a paper to record the good deeds of men. It is said to have failed from want of news. But I conceive that it must have failed from other reasons. The good deeds of life are ordinarily to be taken for granted, and if of an extraordinary nature, become...
...NUMBER of our exchanges have recently insisted upon the vital importance of the study of political science in a country where the government, like ours, is in the hands of the people. A few weeks ago the Magenta published an article of similar import. It was written by some enthusiast, who desired the formation of a political club, where the leading questions of the day could be discussed and settled by the wise brains of a dozen students...
...even our few moments of reasoning existence hardly deserve the name of life - I take to be somewhat as follows: in all things to approach as nearly as possible to perfect rest. If the hope of a future state of happiness is not the dream of a mere enthusiast, it is likely that that state will be one of entire physical and mental repose; we shall be in harmony with ourselves, the ego, and with everything not ourselves, the non-ego. Our own personalities will melt into all other personalities, and our bodies will become assimilated with other portions...