Word: gar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...coarseness and commonness all the while; the right definition of Luther, as of our own Bunyan, is that he is a Philistine of genius. So Luther's sincere idiomatic German,- such language as this: "Hilf lieber Gott, wie manchen Jammer habe ich gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts Weiss von der christlichen Lehre:"- no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic. Power of style, properly so called, as manifested in masters of style like Dante or Milton in poetry, Cicero, Bossuet, or Holingbroke in prose, is something quite different...
...Fenton, '95, E. F. Champney, '96 have entered for the games of the M. A. C. to be held on the 26th of November in the Madison Square Gar lens...