Word: merely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...names of the various grains continue Saxon as well as the product of the inferier kinds when ground, as oatmeal, barleymeal, ryemeal, yet that which was used by the higher classes gets a foreign name-flour. Thus we find a principle of caste established in our language by the mere necessities of the case. To bury remains Saxon, because everybody must at last be put in the earth, but as only the rich and noble could afford any pomp in that sad office we get the word for it-funeral from the Norman. So also the poor...
...performance last night was all, and more than all, that could be desired. In any criticism of the actors, it must always be remembered that they are laboring under very unusual difficulties. The mere recitation of the lines so as to retain the sense and at the same time conform to the peculiarities of the metre, is no slight achievement. Even this, however, is not the greatest difficulty which has to be overcome. Through about half of the play the actors are accompanied by music, which makes it a very easy matter to fall into a sing-song manner...
...people, even college graduates, a Latin classic consists of ideas with which he has become familiar in some other form and now recognizes through a clumsy set of symbols. The words do not suggest parts of ideas that unite as they proceed into larger and larger groups, but are mere signs as much as O. K. and C. O. D. That a Latin sentence was really an instrument of thought and expression, saying something directly as it went along, hardly enters their heads. And even a play, in which people have real emotions, talk, make bargains and swear, gives, when...
...turn a teacher, a missionary of the higher culture, showing its beauty in his life no less than in the product of his mind, carrying that lamp of enthusiasm which you have kindled here into the dusky chambers of ignorance and into the drearier darkness of a belief in merely material prosperity. It is in performing this duty that "the teachers shall shine." Coming as I do from the oldest College in the country to the newest, I feel myself in some sort an accredited ambassador from the Past, the representative of tradition, the pledged advocated of those seemingly unprofitable...
...forced his theory even so far as to claim that the new method was the only right method of writing. As a novelist he was an artist, but in criticism he was narrow-minded and bigotted. He wrote too much, too many pages of mere detailed description. In this way he has fallen into the trap of Psychology, making his characters tell what they think instead of trusting to their individuality to demonstrate their thoughts. He might well have relied on this feature of his characters, for no one knew better than he how to make mere paper...