Word: grander
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...along the plain we may better appreciate the details of the landscape and obtain a truer idea of it, and of what constitutes its beauty, than if from a mountain-top we saw all commingled and undistinguishable in the hazy distance; yet the latter view is the broader and grander, and that we may have a true idea of the whole region and the relations of its parts, it is almost indispensable. Besides which, it seems to me discreditable that a man should pass through college without knowing something of every important branch of knowledge; yet as things...
...write in grander strain...
...Grander and more complete...
...order to enjoy the beauties of the Latin authors; I admire the Greek, because, most certainly, there is no more perfect language; because in no language is there a greater poet than Homer, a more elegant writer than Plato, a more skilful dramatist than Sophocles, or a grander orator than Demosthenes. But in obliging every Frenchman who wishes an education to read Plato or Demosthenes lies the absurdity of the system. What I deprecate is, not that Latin and Greek are taught, but that this should be a national system, and one that is applied to all Frenchmen without distinction...