Word: italian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...worms crawl, why the Nine muffs, why Juniors jodel. At a lecture on the Vedas, I could have told you from actual observation the length of a Latin foot, and could have proved that the Romans wore pigtails, and had plank walks. During a lecture on the Italian classics, I proved to myself by the theory of curves that Napoleon was only Hannibal in disguise, and that the Graian Alps were so called because the Confederate States of America (whose uniform was gray) made their last stand here against the terrible Swedish conqueror Semiramis...
...quiet nook of Italian soil...
Passing by the cages of foreign birds, French, Italian, German, and Chinese, - for the most part mocking-birds, - we next see the procession of mediaeval knights, mounted on hobby-horses. Each rider recited his particular speech over and over again, and paid no attention to what any one else said. An aged knight, tastefully dressed in the garb of a scholastic philosopher, led the van. By a happy arrangement of the managers, a corps of Freshmen on ponies appropriately followed at a short interval...
...departure from the Stagirite once allowed, there was no end of change and emendation. The next innovator was Politico, an Italian. This philosopher was an Animist, that is to say, he was full of life. He first introduced the name of the Regulative Faculty. By Anaxagoras, the same thing was called ???, Reason. But aside from being a vague and ambiguous term, Politico, the acutest of his contemporaries, saw that calling this Faculty Reason involved a contradiction of ter???, since Reason could scarcely ever be said to have any influence over its action. Hence he appropriately dubbed it the Regulative Faculty...
...ground up Dante for Italian...