Word: leftness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...accusations, in which the plainest thing is the author's bitterness, do not get or deserve much attention. But to a carefully considered, temperate article nobody ought to object; for, though its ideas are unsound, they are less likely to be harmful if stated fully and clearly than if left to spread through the college in the disjointed form of conversation. The error will be detected sooner, and, as a rule, college men are too honorable to side with what they see to be unfair, even if it chimes with their prejudices...
...diameter; one of a set of twenty-four, described in books as bought in Florence over a hundred years ago, and which were for many years the glory of the Otto collection in Leipzig. When this collection was broken up there were but eighteen of the original twenty-four left; these were sold, and the finest one in many respects was purchased for Mr. Gray at a great price, while the British Museum got the rest...