Word: equally
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...young he evinced a taste for scientific study, which he developed by attending the College of Lausanne, and the famous Medical School at Zurich, and afterward the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, where his teachers were such men as Tiedmann, Bischoff Leuckart, Schelling, Oken, Dollinger, Martius, and others of equal celebrity. At Munich he received the degree of M. D., at the age of nineteen, and in the same year the degree of Ph. D., at Erlangen. After the return of a scientific expedition to Brazil he was called upon by Martius to assist in compiling for publication the discoveries...
...person can hardly walk through the older part of Boston without passing some spot or building which is closely associated with Revolutionary times. Commerce has destroyed many other places of equal note, and even these are passing away before the demands of trade. The utilitarian spirit of the times, not content with destroying the houses in which some of our forefathers lived, reaches out with an eager hand even toward their last resting-place...
...before a large and appreciative audience. It was unusually early in the year for the club to make an appearance in public, but the results justified the confidence of its members; for the concert, though not quite up to two or three of those last year, was yet quite equal in excellence to the average. At quarter of seven the club started in hacks for West Newton, and had a delightfully cool and moist ride of about an hour...
...first time in a century, Venice, escaped from the dominion of Austria (which had lasted seventy years), celebrated its annexation to Italy by a series of fetes equal in richness to those of the republic. In the early part of November, 1866, Victor Emanuel made his triumphal entry into Venice. The men-of-war in the harbor saluted him with their guns; and the Grand Canal, along which he passed, was draped with the most graceful tapestries. A golden vessel awaited him at the depot; it was carpeted with red velvet, with a golden lion at its prow...
...took what did not belong to them for purposes of rash speculation, or to cover debts. This is the old story over again, - each embezzler meaning to restore the funds, but none doing so. Making haste to be rich, the dishonest inclination to live beyond one's means, to equal or outshine others, - these all excite to that demoniacal spirit of evil which leads downwards to destruction, and makes only the difference of a crooked "s" between peculation and speculation, both despoilers of the highest attributes of our nature. As to this expectation of "paying back," which is always brought...