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...colony of Connecticut least he should imbibe in his youth that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so interwoven in their constitutions that all their art cannot disguise it from the World, tho' many of them under the Sanctifyed Garb of Religion have endeavored to impose themselves on the World for honest...
...surtouts of brown pleated stuff, and the former bore an immense horn which he blew at intervals. The passengers of the coach were students and gentlemen of the period, artisans, and a lady. The costumes, with their flowered brocades, powdered wigs and delicate ruffles, mingled with the quaint leather garb of the artisans, made a most pronounced hit. The coach was labeled "1750: Cambridge, Roxbury and Boston; fare 2 shillings; I 8th Century Elevator...
...unquestionably the case. If indeed, his knowledge is of vice which is repellent and disgusting, then, although he may be all the more firmly resolved to shun it, he will be no stronger in character than before; it is only when vice takes on a pleasanter and more aesthetic garb that resistance is a virtue. In the first case, there is no temptation, consequently no virtue. It is only in resisting that which is agreeable that manhood is developed. Harvard sends forth, not men of guileless innocence and insipid morality, but men of sturdysinewy manliness...
...Thames, they are visited by a considerable number of people, and they also always visit New London once or twice. I think that most Harvard men would like to see the crew which represents them, presenting rather a more uniform appearance than if clad in the motley garb which would result from each man wearing whatever clothes he happened to have in his possession...
...past years to set out more vines. The autumn coloring of these ivy leaves during the past few weeks has been most beautiful. And when we think how rapidly the vine grows and how easily all our older buildings might by this time have been completely clad in this garb, we feel constrained to suggest to the authorities that they give our descendants this pleasure, by beginning now the cultivation of the Japanese ivy on the walls of the college buildings...