Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been President Seelye's idea that the constitution of the senate, like the English Constitution, so called, should grow up with time; and so it happens that at present the constitution covers scarcely a page in the secretary's book. The jurisdiction of the senate is by no means sharply defined as yet. Broadly stated, however, in substantially President Seelye's words, the faculty have to do, or should have to do, simply with the literary life of the college; while to the students, through the senate, is left the control of all matters in general, other than literary, with...
...more supercilious than their father. They are still more cold and haughty. They smile at the people as they pass by to the church and say 'How foolish! We are the only wise ones of the earth.' They have no regard for any but the few that are like them, and they are few indeed...
...love is like a man who has got the toothache; he feels most acute pain, while nobody pities him.-BOSWELL...
...held her dear hand; her eyes were full of passion; I took her in my arms; I told her what made me miserable; she was pleased to find it was no worse. We renewed our fondness." Supporting somebody else's wife, however, was expensive-it looked "too much like licentiousness," Boswell complained, and growing tired of her, his conscience began to trouble him. "How strangely do we color our own vices." he writes in horror, "I startle when you talk of keeping another man's wife, yet that was literally my scheme, though imagination represented it just as being fond...
...wanted to marry, the other didn't, so nothing came of it. The beginning of this courtship was most romantic. "She was so good," he says, "as to prevail with her mother to come to Auchinleck, where they stayed four days; and in our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity." I fear that although his courting was carried on in such a poetical way Boswell was not shaped enough on the Greek model to make such wooing a complete artistic success, for he straightway begins to feel that his suit is not prospering, and summons a friend...