Word: laments
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...does of the "Religion of the Mound-Builders," would probably find his sense of humor gratified by a table of logarithms, while there are others whose chief delight is to build a tower of moral rectitude whence they may alternately gloat over their own superiority and lament the vulgarity of the crowd. As I said, tastes differ, and it is well that each should have its representative, but when one sets up bounds outside of which a college student is supposed not to know enough to write, and not to care enough to read, I can only say, "Please...
...touching account of the guileless simplicity of the Freshman concludes with the eloquent lament, "How soon do they learn to look at it [total depravity] through a different medium...
Resolved, That, while recognizing the infinite wisdom of Providence in removing from us one whose abilities have done so much to advance the cause of science in this country, and whose unassuming character has so endeared him to all those connected with him, we deeply lament the loss of one whose devotion to science excited the enthusiasm of all, and whose noble qualities can never be forgotten by those who knew...
...whom so many, both here and abroad, are now in mourning. From those who knew him only by his wonderful achievements in the science which to us seems almost to have been his own, to those in humbler ranks who loved him only for himself, - all lament, as a personal sorrow, the death of Professor Agassiz. In other columns will be found a sketch of his life, intended more for future use than as a supply of any present need; an account of the funeral, the simplicity of which was in accordance with his wishes; and the resolutions adopted...
...which Socrates was the first to expose. It is of the first that Kenelm Chillingly is a type. It is the second that he takes pains to deride. We have no room to speak of the other characters of the book, - of Lilly, for whose death no one can lament, for by such a woman the hero would have been influenced in the direction of his weakness rather than in that of his strength; of Mivers, and his Londoner, so like in principle to a periodical nearer home. The incidents with which the book abounds are all very interesting, though...