Word: man
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Have I his picture ? Yes, I have; but 't is n't very good. The man that took it did it, though, as nicely as he could. It was a pleasant-spoken man, that turned up years ago, Who cut folks out in paper, and put black behind to show. But Grandsir Peavy 'd lost his nose, and so the picture's queer...
When her wants. Madame Nature bids man satisfy...
...realize what a fund of pleasure can be obtained by the unobtrusive use of the eyes, joined to an average share of imagination. To pass through Boston Common, even, on a pleasant, summer evening about dusk, when so many hearts are lost and won, will give an observing man much food for reflection on the proportion maintained between the three factors,-the social status of the lovers, the strength of their affection, and the publicity of its manifestation; and at Niagara! -truly the air is so love-laden that a poor bachelor mortal can hardly breathe...
...second necessary reform is to allow a man to be a candidate for the same prize but once. It is reasonable for a man who has taken a second prize one year to try for a first prize the next year. But for a man to take the first prize for two successive years, seems to us unfair...
...fifty graduates, every closing of the college term in June sets free six hundred students, who are soon scattered to every part of this country, and, we may almost say, to every corner of the world. If we could obtain a leaf from the mental note-book of each man, we might form a cosmopolitan scrap-book of experience that would be amusing, not to say instructive. O for a telescope of unlimited power, to see our friends of the midnight oil "clothed in purple and fine linen," displaying their charms of face and figure at Swampscott or Newport, looking...