Word: fill
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will not be the last of his contributions to the Atlantic. "Mose Evans" also concludes with this number; G. P. Lathrop has a paper on the Growth of the Novel; J. C. Layard writes from personal experience of Morphine; poetry by Howells, Cranch, and others, with several entertaining articles fill up the number...
...plan works in practice is this. The men may be divided roughly into two classes, - the first consisting of those who know little or nothing about the subject, the second, of those better informed. Members of the first class calculate how many pages they can write in an hour, fill that amount of paper with headings of paragraphs, and are then ready. A consideration which gives the plan a favorable reception among this class is, that they need only find some one who has written out a good abstract and learn it, thereby saving themselves a vast amount of trouble...
These are the men who in his opinion gain the greatest rewards, and who for their learning and practical wisdom are best fitted to fill responsible positions. While men of brilliant endowments may combine both learning and eloquence with great power, the Websters and Choates are few, and genius is a dangerous gift unless under control. The care which prepares an amount of valuable material is of greater advantage than brilliancy trusting to inspiration. The only hope of ever attaining success in law is founded on a broad liberal training and education, which should include a knowledge not only...
Leaving me there to walk, to fill...
...fairer Mary could canvas fill...