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Word: greeke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Intercollegiate Literary Association announces for this year examinations in Latin and mental science in addition to the contests in oratory and essay-writing and the examinations in Greek and Mathematics. The subjects for essays are: "The Federalist Party in the United States," and "Hawthorne's Place in Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

...Roman, Greek, Arab, breathing with one soul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VENICE. | 10/6/1876 | See Source »

...very like the Greeks, as, in short, we are elegant, cultivated, and handsome men, with a decided taste for beauty of form, - and for good form, too, - and as we live together in small and purely democratic communities, sufficiently like each other in tastes and interests to be eternally at war, it really seems a pity that we have not yet adopted that admirable feature of Greek polity, - ostracism. It is my fortune to be a member of a certain society, in its elegance and refinement truly Attic, or, to use the current slang of the days of the Regent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...mind, one of the most delightful institutions of the Attic republic was that which permitted the people to banish from among them, from time to time, the men of whom they had grown tired. The delight that an old Greek must have felt at seeing some disagreeable fellow, who had outstripped him in military or political life, or who had neglected to invite him to select little dinner-parties, packed off, bag and baggage, for parts unknown, must have been one of the most unalloyed sentiments that ever filled the human heart; and I often find myself lost in envy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...sentiments, that there are dozens of men who would like to get rid of Swiddle if they knew how; and if we could ostracize him it would give us all the greatest pleasure to do so. As I write this, I imagine myself for the moment an ancient Greek. I imagine myself scratching the word ??? on a bit of shell, and dropping the shell into a vase decorated with designs from the wars of the gods and the giants. And then I imagine myself walking off, and saying, "So, so, Mr. Swiddle, you'll cut a dash in the streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

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