Word: hear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR - : I really should have written to you before, if I had had any idea that you cared to hear from me. I am grieved to learn that you are having such a "glorious" time. The pursuit of happiness in this world is so fatally sure to end in bitter disappointment, that any transient glimpse of it which we may obtain only serves to make the final catastrophe less bearable. The great object in life - or rather of existence, for even our few moments of reasoning existence hardly deserve the name of life - I take to be somewhat as follows...
...friends more for his power in the pulpit, than for all the services, invaluable as they were, which he rendered in secular life. Once in four weeks, for twenty years, he regularly preached in the College Chapel, and not infrequently in neighboring pulpits. It was an event to hear one of his sermons. The language was invariably plain and direct, yet as invariably free from any expression unworthy the gentleman and the scholar, - golden in its weight, its purity, its value; the manner was most simple, yet most impressive, breathing throughout an intense but chastened emotion arising from a deliberate...
...very rare that any of the rumors which are floating about are free from exaggeration or error, yet when they are our only source of information, we have to accept them; and when we hear a report of some decision so mutilated as to seem arbitrary, and out of the proper sphere of a college government, a very bitter feeling is produced, old troubles are raked up, and new stories get into circulation, so that often a very small fire kindles a great deal of matter...
...cuts," for the former is to all intents and purposes absent. If the course is history, and the family name of some nobleman is given which without doubt is very necessary to a clear understanding of English politics, he is too absorbed in his writing to hear it, and thus that important fact is lost...
...must bring this letter to an abrupt termination, as I hear him now screaming "'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah!" in the next room, and must go and quiet...