Word: himselfe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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As soon as the grateful odor of coffee and cigars had diffused itself through the room, the President, Mr. C. W. Wetmore, arose, and in a farewell address to the Society, and a welcome to the new members, did honor to himself and the Institute.
Mr. Green, of the same class, in response to the "First Ten," delivered himself of a gushing speech, and wound up with an original interpretation of an air from French opera.
A GRADUATE of Harvard University of some legal celebrity, addressing a deliberative assembly not long since, whilst urging the necessity of a sort of missionary bishop for the diocese of Massachusetts, made the declaration that the young men at Cambridge needed rousing up to serious religious thought, or they would...
Therefore, if you wish to retain the good opinions of your companions, be reserved and quiet, be never moved to laughter by a pun or joke; for the man who perpetrates it is half ashamed of himself, half convinced that he is doing something unseemly, and if you retain your...
But let one beware how he ventures to assume this character, if it is not inborn. It is not an easy part to assume, and all labor will be in vain unless there exist a priori some natural adaptation for it. One must learn to have perfect control of himself...