Word: frigidities
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...overcome with pride in our brother's success - has actually succeeded in keeping, until the time of issuing the first number, a new year's resolution, to dress old jokes in new costume. Well done, Lampy. Serve a few of prae-Adamite cold dishes, kept in your frigid zone, with new year's sauce, and win our most hearty thanks...
...Plant;" "Relation of Plants to Water;" "Relations to the Soil;" "Relations of Air and Light;" "Relations to Air and Warmth;" "Most Favorable Conditions for Vegetable Activity;" "Conditions of Permanence, Means of Defence;" "Former Climates and Floras, and their Relations to Ours;" "The Floras of Extremes of Climate; The Frigid Zone, Deserts;" "The Flora of an Equitable Climate - The Equatorial Belt;" "The Flora of Variable Climates - The Temperate Zones;" "Acclimatization and Culture - The Production and Perpetuation of Varieties...
...with the languages, mythologies and histories of the ancient nations, we have been obliged to remain in utter ignorance in respect to most other departments of literature." And in another place he indicates again the reaction that was going on during the early portion of this century against the frigid classicism of the preceding century. He says: "We seldom style the moon Diana, even in our verses; have dispensed with the society of Cupid; and never think of asking inspiration from Apollo or the Muses...
...that it is "soft" and does not occupy so much time as other courses. We all know how easy it is to neglect the above-mentioned courses, how much they are neglected, and unless an improvement is made in this direction we fear that many will experience some decidedly frigid weather about the time of the semi-annuals...
...Frigid! frigid! very frigid!" exclaimed our old friend Algernon Charles Swansdown. "There is no life - no warmth. But your idea is a good one, Mark. Let us all read our lucubrations; I will begin. I will take for a subject the recent license vote in Cambridge. Strew roses around me and listen...