Word: merely
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Their waters, both from peaceful mere...
...some misnamed "artist," who attempts to depict scenes of which he seems not to have the faintest conception. To illustrate a book to help the understanding is a useful field for the pencil, but to illustrate for the sake or helping the imagination, or, what is worse, for the mere sake of advertising, is in most cases a miserable failure. I say in most cases, because a few novelists - Dickens, for example - have been so happy as to find artists, like Cruikshank, who can really help instead of hinder the story...
...numbers of last year. It contains one or two good "heavy articles," interesting extracts from the diary of a young surveyor, some slight abuse of the Faculty, and a copy of verses called "Dished," which would indisputably prove - if there were no other evidence - that the study of the mere exact science is not favorable to the spirit of poetry. In the course of eight verses the poet informs us that he has been dropped from '75 to '76. "Would that the Faculty had been more merciful!" say the readers of the Spectrum...
...name of the Popes, and that its proceedings were very horrible indeed. We are innocent enough to believe this; can the Owl instruct our innocence? Some one else declares that "the exercise of common-sense but for a minute" reduces the difference between Romanists and Protestants to a mere doubt respecting the profitableness of invoking the Virgin. The writer would surely have said otherwise had he exercised his own common-sense a minute longer. If not, his instructors could have corrected him. These expressions, in a magazine containing much commendable matter, are all that challenge our critical attention...
Oratory is the other field of usefulness, in training for which our places of education are wanting. The mere faculty of expressing one's thoughts with facility and grace is not uncommon among us; but behind and above all this there are certain conditions, indispensable to the making of the real orator, consisting, as the treatment of this subject by Cicero has admirably shown, in a general and detailed acquaintance with all departments of knowledge. To satisfy these conditions, by commencing the training here and marking out a distinct practical road for the student to follow afterward, should...