Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth and Coleridge. As for his style, it has often been said not to be original. For that matter what style is original? Lamb's literary manner is indeed compounded of many simples, but the composition is so individually done as to make the ultimate blending his own. And any page of his most characteristic prose is as much Lamb's as the writing of Carlyle, or Thackery, or Jane Austen belongs to each of those writers respectively...
...President's message is bad as to its manner of laying down the policy for this particular case.- (a) Risk of war is unnecessarily increased.- (1) Threat of war in advance of commission's finding served no purpose.- (x) War could have been threatened after the finding: A. Carnegie in No. Am. Rev. Vol. 162 p. 135 (Feb. 1896).- (2) Threat of war in advance made peacable accommodation more difficult.- (x) Made it harder for England to yield: C. F. Adams in Boston Herald, Jan. 12, 1896; Harper's Weekly, Dec. 28, 1895, p. 1232; ibid...
...Mills, who are rowing at four and three respectively. Mills weighs 185 pounds. His legs, however, are rather short and consequently his stroke has a tendency of being very short. Marvin at 7 is a steady man but has a tendency to use his legs in a weak manner and swing back towards...
...faults of the crew as a whole are manifold but the chief one is that the men use their legs in a very feeble manner. Their time also is very ragged. As a whole, the candidates are considered as inferior to the ordinary men of freshman crews and unless a decided improvement takes place the outlook for a good crew seems doubtful indeed. Following are the orders in which the two crews rowed yesterday afternoon...
...students and has become a near friend. Many of the members of the University who went to hear Dr. McPherson preach his first sermon here a few weeks ago, knew of him by reputation, but few had ever seen him before. His sincerity and his simple, straightforward manner of speaking appealed to his hearers, as these characteristics invariably appeal to Harvard men. When they left the Chapel on that first evening, the students felt that they had made a new friend and since then he has continued to identify himself with the students' interests. We feel that we speak...