Word: mans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Where goes man? Why, his heart he'll follow...
...last paper, on the subject of lawn-tennis. Not only did the writer disapprove of the game, but he seemed to advocate violent measures for compelling those who like it to devote themselves to rowing instead! Granting that playing lawn-tennis is not violent exercise, and is not a manly sport, which seems to be your correspondent's opinion, only makes it more improbable that it diverts any men from rowing, as those who play it would be weak and effeminate; but we do not grant that it is unmanly, unless unmanliness consists in using skill as well as strength...
Lest the fair fruit that wrought the woe of man...
GOING yesterday to dine with an old acquaintance, a distant relation, I was pleased to find that there were only a few friends and neighbors present, and that it was a simple family party. There is nothing so agreeable to a man of strong family feeling as an assembly of his kinsmen and kinswomen around a well-filled board. The intercourse between those who are bound together by the ties of friendship as well as of blood affords one of the rarest pleasures I am acquainted with...
...legends of that Bowdoin man have travelled near...