Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Let me not blame you to your face...
...proceed to the practical application of them. Take the first principle, - that of appropriation. If you see any thing in dress or manner that strikes your fancy, make it your own; but always cum grano mutationis. Flatter your model by a resemblance; do not offend him by an identity. Let him think that the variation means superior excellence on his side; be satisfied with knowing, yourself, that you have changed only to improve. Enough on this score. Your inborn qualities will either make or mar you here. No education, no counsel - even of the sagest - can help you. You must...
...work so much as the energy with which he sees an instructor carry on his elective; his enthusiasm seldom fails to kindle his pupils. It would, of course, be too much to expect every instructor to furnish periodicals at his own expense. But Professor Bartlett's action, let us hope, may suggest to the Corporation the steps by which such pleasant collateral means of study might be added to other departments...
WILL I take a ticket to the Philosophical Club's Chamber Concerts on Physiology, - "a subject at once useful and interesting"? No! I won't take a ticket, and I won't let any one else, and I'm going to prosecute you and the Philosophical Club and the Rum Club and the Society of Naturals. It's shameful that such organizations should exist! They drive me crazy! I've been to readings, concerts, lectures, and consultations in Sever, Harvard, Boylston, and University for five months now, and the end must be near. What man has done...
...conversation on various subjects; the first mention of either society; the lowering of the brow and darkening of the eye when at last they saw each other in their true light; the ill-suppressed wrath; the last fearful outburst of ungovernable anger; and the final death-struggle when - But let us draw the veil...