Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...legislative, and judicial departments of the State government, and had been, from his early manhood, a successful and honored member of the legal profession. He was a man of excellent ability, of the most strenuous diligence, of an integrity absolutely impenetrable, and of a benevolence which made his whole life an unceasing ministry of kindness. Those who knew him best knew not that he had a fault, and no man had more fully than he the profound respect and warm affection of all within the circle of his acquaintance and the sphere of his influence. The community can ill spare...
...number of years ago on the plain of Shinar, there has been an ever-increasing tendency among mortals to divergency in idiom and pronunciation of speech, even among those people whom we should expect to have the greatest points of similarity. One of the many curious features of college life is the bovine persistency with which some of our students stick to errors in pronunciation acquired in early youth: Among the poor and uneducated, considering the few opportunities for improvement, slovenly and vulgar pronunciation is to be expected; but the fact that men of three or four years' standing...
...meals with that "repose of manner" which characterizes a diner-out and benefits one's digestion, nor is our after-dinner conversation of that prudish kind which is heard in some circles of society. Still there are some suggestions, even in a book on the ceremonies of polite life, that are worth following, and one of these is the banishment of "shop" from table conversation...
...play their simple and natural airs, - and it is wonderful what a variety it furnishes, far greater than was ever produced by the complicated mechanism from which the old romance-writers ground out their dreary tunes. If the seventeenth-century novels give a true picture of the life of that day, one cannot help thinking how differently life, as regards conversation, was arranged then from what it is now. In those times every one had a good deal to say, and had plenty of time to say it without interruption; but now, although we are just as talkative...
...accused of too open adulation. Mr. Morse's two songs, "Embarrassment," by Abt, and, in response to an encore, J. K. Paine's "Matin Song," were sung with clearness, sweetness, and at times true pathos, though a captious critic would have desired to see a little more life and energy...