Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Their early half, grim want stood at the door...
...Cowan must be wrong about tobacco. I have begun smoking again. I think it immoral to swear off. Private for Prayers. Warning in Physics, - quite uncalled for, as I am sure I did half the paper...
...cannot be correctly judged from a few articles, which are all that the class have for the basis of their opinion. His unsuccessful articles are known to the editors alone; his writing may be uneven; one piece may be good and make a reputation for its author, and then half a dozen go deservedly to the waste basket. Moreover, many articles which appear have been bolstered and physicked and amputated until almost entirely changed. In this case would the class be likely to choose wisely? Concerning another danger,-the most important one,-we quote from the Era: "As for ourselves...
Therefore, if you wish to retain the good opinions of your companions, be reserved and quiet, be never moved to laughter by a pun or joke; for the man who perpetrates it is half ashamed of himself, half convinced that he is doing something unseemly, and if you retain your gravity, he sees that you are wholly convinced, and respects you accordingly. I remember a person whom I once regarded as a superior being. He was a type of that class which George Eliot irreverently styles the "Divine Cow." In my acquaintance with him he had always looked with...
...sleep as the restorer of strength to man's wearied frame, probably agreeing with Socrates, that a dreamless night is the pleasantest, and hence neglecting to celebrate the pleasures of sleep as well. These are not to be found in blank oblivion, nor in the incongruous, unreal, and half-recollected shadows of the hours of darkness, but in the hours of early morning. Then, like the light of the dawn going before the full radiance of the sun, the self-consciousness of each human mind precedes the full resumption of the sceptre over its allotted portion of matter that begins...