Word: lee
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor of the Romans, translated by GEORGE LONG. New and complete edition. Boston: Lee and Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham. Price...
...Browsing in its libraries, - that of the city of Boston and the Boston Athenaeum, incomparable in management and size, - improving its opportunities for study of the sciences unsurpassed by any American city; cruising around the harbor, saluting the "Marathon" off Boston Light, just from Europe, or scudding (with the lee scuppers under water and every inch of canvas set) under the brow of formidable forts, past the Halcyon, the Romance, or the Brenda, form an agreeable diversion to the ordinary routine of strict application to a stated task...
...easy fly. For Brown, Nickerson reached first by Thatcher's missing the third strike, Salisbury retired on a foul fly to Thayer, Tyler struck to Sawyer and was put out at first. Comstock batted a hot grounder through Leeds and took his second, Nickerson in the mean while scoring. Lee followed with a base hit bringing in Comstock. Griffin reached first on an error of Thayer, but was left there, as the next man struck to short stop and was retired at first...
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...great degree a question of feeling, and we must remember feeling has changed since then. We have gone along with marvellous strides in the last two years. Celebrations like that on the 17th of last June, and speeches like those of General Sherman and Fitzhugh Lee, have materially altered our feelings towards the South. The Nation's language was, therefore, the language of 1874, prompted by feeling rather than by reason, as it confesses. Now, in 1876, feeling as well as reason would sustain it in speaking otherwise...