Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HERODOTUS THE YOUNGER.P. S. Thank Heaven, the thing's postponed...
...stars in heaven above...
...wish you, sir, the aid and support of Heaven while you are discharging the duties of your most important station. May your success in promoting the best interests of the nation be equal to your highest wishes! And after you shall have long rejoiced in the prosperity and glory of your country, may you receive the approbation of Him who ruleth among the nations.' Thus Joseph Willard, President of the University in 1789. to George Washington, first President of the United States...
...then takes a pair of Indian clubs that I bought in my Freshman year, and swings them in dangerous proximity to my heated head. At last, thank Heaven, he goes, whistling all the way down stairs. I wonder why it is that people always whistle in the entries of the College buildings. They do not whistle in the Yard, or in their rooms; but, when going up or down stairs, every one thinks he must whistle the best he knows...
...organ-grinder within these classic precincts, in less cultured yards he is sure of an enthusiastic and appreciative audience who drink in the charms of music and monkey with open mouths. Put him in front of a bay-window, with a couple of babies looking out in the seventh heaven of ecstasy, and a nurse to take off his hat to, and to lavish his most winning smile upon, and it will be hard to find a more contented being than Signor Smitherini. He knows that he is inspiring two or three little souls with perfect bliss, and is himself...