Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...agreeable and even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath of a pain in the stomach or a fall from his horse. Montaigne more than any other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays is a kind of web wherein to entangle every winged thing (of the smaller kind) that comes along, while he, sitting at the centre, feels from all quarters the faintest vibration that gives promise of mental food. Not a chance mote can be driven against it by the wind that does not send...
...purposes of poetry our language has gained by the infusion of Latin. It has become a kind of Corinthian metal richer than any one of its compounds taken by itself or all of them together before they have been fused into the glowing amalgam. In the experiments made for casting Big Ben, the great bell for the Westminster tower, it has been found that the superstition that it was the presence of silver in larger proportion which gave the remarkable sweetness of tone to certain of the old bells had no foundation in fact. It was the skilful proportions with...
...abasement, and asceticism. Their attitude towards the gods was chiefly one of hilarious gratitude. In worship they offered among other things the time which naturally would be devoted to business; and the natural opposite of labor was enjoyment. So that, to a Roman, attendance upon a spectacle of any kind was an act of worship just as going to church is to a Christian. To have brought before us a spectacle, which was also a rite, in a form resembling that used by the Romans, is to make a study of their religion as well as of their amusements...
...which is, above all other things, a cause for gratification. The success was won by hearty, unhesitating cooperation in the general plan by every person who had any connection with the play. There was none of the half-hearted, calculating support which outsiders persist in believing is the only kind given at Harvard. Individuals worked, not to make themselves prominent but to make the play successful...
...almost any other dead language. Partly from the formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing thought to English speaking people. Thousands of persons can express thought in Latin and millions can use quotational tags of it, but only a few ecclesiastics are moved to think...