Word: himselfe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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A WRITER in the Courant has been amusing himself by some slurs on Mr. Alexander Agassiz and his conduct at Springfield, said slurs beng backed by a clipping from the New Haven (!) Palladium of July 2. The half-made charge of unfairness in the Palladium time has proved unfounded; and...
Why, then, should such a man, having little taste for history or philosophy, or rather a greater love for literature, not be allowed special honors in general literature, without confining himself to classics or modern languages? Why would not the stimulus and incentive for honors in some such courses as...
"Senator Bayard said that the man who made the phrase 'Pleasures that come unlooked for are twice welcome,' was never called upon suddenly to make an after-dinner speech. His steps had been bent thither by invitation of one of the societies, before whom on the morrow he might perhaps...
"Fifteen minutes," he said at last; "not quite as well as your father used to do. But you are flurried, embarrassed; Diana will play to you. You must excuse me now. Good evening." And he bowed himself out.
He seemed embarrassed, but recovered himself and said, "So you've found that, have you? No, it is n't mine, I am keeping it for - Well, Morris, I think I'll tell you about it, and ask your adv ce about what I ought to do with it. Never...