Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...restaurant for hurried business men, but a dining hall whose tables should be as nearly as possible like home tables. There is one objection to the proposed plan which should not be lost sight of by either students or corporation. It is that where large quantities of one kind of food,- fowl is the best known example-have to be prepared, the work of preparation is done in such a hurry and so mechanically that the food is likely to be unpalatable. The present steward, who has done so much to improve Memorial board, has not been able to overcome...
...privilege of being loosed, at its best moments, into that perfectly simple, limpid style, which is the supreme style of all, but the simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose. The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity of prose, and is the same kind of simplicity as that which Goethe's style, in the passage which I have quoted, exhibits; but Menander does not belong to a great poetical moment, he comes too late for it; it is the simple passages in poets like Pindar or Dante which are perfect, being masterpieces of poetical simplicity...
...majority of books are of that exemplary kind which no gentleman's library can be without, but there is another and rarer kind without which no man's education is complete. These are the representative books in which epochs culminated like Homer, Dante, Shakespeare,- or which mark the transitions of the human mind like Cervantes and Gothe. But here Nature deals kindly and mercifully with us, and it is seldom that she gives more than one great speaker or singer to one race. There is a New England proverb which says of a fastidious person-"the best is not good...
Born in 1853, Dorpfeld received an education as an architect. He was destined, however, to study old buildings, not to construct new. At the age of twenty-four he was sent to Olympia, and since that time he has been constantly engaged in archaeological investigation of every kind. He has conducted numerous excavations and has made careful and valuable examinations...
...leading place in the Monthly for March. It will prove interesting to individuals doubtless, but the majority will turn more readily to the fiction of the number. The same might be said of "Thomas Hardy's Fatalism as Art," by W. T. Denison. Both articles are of the kind of which each Monthly contains one or more specimens,- serious subjects well treated, but without doubt intended to appeal to the individual or specialist rather than to the general class of readers...