Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...leave me to dream my life away...
...life was a deadly blight...
...three-months' vacation is a long time for an active man to be idle, and even many a man who fully knows the pleasures of a dolie far niente life, finds time, unless perchance in Europe, hang heavily on his hands during the last half of vacation. The problem how to enjoy one's spare time is a difficult one always, and ninety days of camping, hunting, and sight-seeing become tedious. Rest is what is wanted, and rest is as often found in change of work as in idleness. The study and contemplation of nature after poring over books...
...values knowledge for its own sake, and for the power it gives for the exercise of a good influence on mankind, to forego half of the long vacation, and take advantage of the courses in science offered this summer, varying the monotony of his life (if such it be) by an occasional trip in a yacht to Minot's Light or Nix's Mate, or by a visit to City Point; or, again, by reading some stirring novel like Guerrazzi's "Beatrice Cenci," or else some of the standard authors or the old dramatists and poets...
...study is irksome, especially in vacation; but to the earnest student this opening for cultivation of branches which he has, perhaps, unwisely decided he must forego, offers a golden opportunity. No man need fear knowing too much; rather should each man's motto be that of Goethe during his life and on his death-bed, "More Light...