Word: hath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comes my taylor's man in the morning, and brings my suit home, and all a bubble to tell how handsome it be. Whereupon, after much ado, feeling he hath won my humour, he did present the bill which being so large I swore not to pay. But he, with much technique, did win me over. I, much vexed; for such business doth displease me; and was glad at my heart...
...along as well as sheer knowledge. Indeed, methinks, there be all too much emphasis on subject matter and too little on the personality of him who doth teach and who doth learn. For what doth a man profit if he gain the knowledge of all the world and yet hath not the feelings of a gentleman or lacks vision and understanding...
...breakfast and thence, very serious, to examination which I did write; and, I did feel, very well; but was much disturbed by man at back of me who did grunt and puff and say strong things most violently. "Poor soul," thought I to myself, "the widow hath failed him again." But I to finish...
...Period of American Finance, both notable for that rare combination in business literature: pleasing prose and unerring accuracy. At a meeting of the Academy of Political Science in November 1929, he was asked how long Depression would last. For an answer he quoted Ecclesiastes 1:9: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under...
...clothes descending stairs... Percy Granger's "Country Gardens"; the "Song of India"... A direct blood transfusion between friends... We roofs beneath the lamp light... Polished brass knockers on doors of dull dwellings... The Charles river at sunset... Professor Whitehead lecturing; Professor Lake reading the Bible... The line: "Euclid alone hath looked on beauty bare." Corinthian columns actually supporting a fine entablature... Modesty, any time, any place, viewed from any angle... Feathery, faery dust... The cool kindliness of sheets; the rough make kiss of blankets... The feeling of work well done... An old Greek Vase... A young inexperienced waitress saying...