Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Puritans believed that the man who had no regular profession was doomed to perdition. To them leisure looked like the larceny of other people's time. Mr. Quincy was one of the first gentlemen of leisure. His stories are most charming; his letters are models in their way; he stood in the fore-front of the desperately unpopular cause of Abolition; was a finished scholar, a delightful man, and a thorough patriot. How many men of business have left a better record? Yet the old Puritan prejudice had as most Puritan notions had, a principle beneath that is fundamentally right...
Please let me add that I do not have in mind a rough burlesque like the antiques and horribles who make our Fourth hideous. There could be any number of ludicrous take-offs and droll fancies, yet well, and picturesquely arranged...
...reminds us of that German home philosopher who never tired of praising his wife's domestic executive abilities. At last the old woman, nourished by the warmth of continual praise, endeavored to run both house and husband. Our German turned to her admiringly and said: 'See here, frau, I like importance, but I will be contemned if I like contemned imputance.' Our German friend used abbreviated expressions, but we can't, you know. The Crimson should know that the difference between a poet and poetaster is that the poet has the imagination, and the poetaster the sense. Further, a Western...
...first group is small. A very few flowers like our Violet, are completely fertilized before the bud opens, - the stamen and pistil coming into contact...
...gnats taking some of the long tubular ones, and being restrained by a kind of a trap till their work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends by colors and odors, and guide them by a beaten path to their goal; they discourage intruders by ingenious safeguards...