Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...love with the Classics; for how could I otherwise lay any claim to respectability? Can he be a scholar who does not know that AEmilia Secunda, the younger daughter of Lucius AEmilius Paulus, married Marcus Porcius Cato, the son of Cato Major? or that Hermogenes Tigellius was a music-teacher, probably a Greek, and perhaps an adopted son of L. Tigellius? Assuredly not. These and similar facts constitute the very basis of an education...
Kind of water that doctors know...
...acts. Among the more abandoned students many a conspiracy is hatched; in cold blood they often settle on the best plan of working the religious ruin of some fellow-student, and ruthlessly execute it. All of us are familiar with the method of a young man's ruin. We know the lad who entered college a member of one of the strictest churches, well fortified by parental and pastoral advice. For a time all went well with him, and, having talent, he grew in culture and influence. At last, however, his strength failed, and he went down, carrying with...
...exclusion of others. On the contrary, the chest is one of the parts most benefited, and by the quickly succeeding contractions and expansions necessary to sustain a rapid gait, the lungs are constantly receiving fresh invoices of purer air than any indoor exercise will admit of. We know of a case where a young man who had lost his voice so as to be unable to speak above a whisper entirely regained it by a walk to Boston from a town in the western part of the State, taking a week for the journey. The bracing oxygen of a crisp...
However, for all we know, men may be so little acquainted with their wives in France as to make this probable, and we should be sorry to find fault with a play which, taken as a whole, is so good...