Word: hims
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Astonished I listened, and heard him mutter low with a half-smothered sigh,
As he piteously begged me to give him a nice and well-formed "Enthymeme."
When I tenderly asked him if "better," he replied, in irascible mood,
That "the fallacy of many questions" had never done him any good.
The classic literature of antiquity was read for itself. The student could then realize the true beauties of the work in his hands; and a knowledge of construction would come of itself from familiarity with the pages of the model writers of old. One did not read Latin and Greek...