Word: losed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...arches lose their flashing gold...
...cultivating our analytical powers, and to mathematics and philosophy, to strengthen our reasoning faculties; but while so much of our attention is devoted to those pure sciences whose good results are to be sought for in the mind itself, and not in the subject-matter studied, we seem to lose our ability to retain those facts which we have once possessed, and which are of intrinsic importance...
...whiskey, so with others ambition teaches the lesson of moderation in wine. But there are a large number of men, and they make up a considerable part of the students, whose ambition is not great, nor incompatible with occasional excess. Their position is such that they lose no friends, if they are only prudent, whatever they may do. In such cases a pledge would fail, for all to a man would refuse to sign it. Nor do they need such a thing. They drink too much just as they eat too much; no particular harm results in either case except...
...hours, when, in this slushy weather, the Park does not substitute the Bois. New York by gaslight, however, is nearly equal to the standard of Parisian brilliancy, and the day can be ended as successfully as begun. A week of this sort of existence is apt to make one lose sight of the fact that he was ever trammelled by duties or cares of any kind. The reminder comes, however, as soon as one touches the soil of Cambridge, and finds with surprise that recitations have begun, and the instructor expects as full preparation as though you had been digging...
...must not for a moment lose sight of the fact that we are dealing with France, and that in France everything is perfectly organized, classified, and subordinated, like books in a library, soldiers in camp, or criminals in cells...