Search Details

Word: mildered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...sure, it is a great thing to see the world, make the grand tour, etc.; but visiting picture-galleries and palaces, and dreaming under the combined influence of a cigar and the Lake of Como, are very poor preparations for mathematics and logic, relieved only by the milder diversions of a Cambridge winter; and the average student is apt to return with a much clearer conception of the works of Offenbach than of those of Michael Angelo, and of Monaco than of the Matterhorn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LONG VACATION. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next