Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gosse's Gray, Goethe's Works, Representative German Poems, Bascom's Ethics, or Science of Duty, Oliver's Dean Stanley, Timayenis' Greece in the Time of Homer, The Statesman's Year-Book, Porter's Elements of Modern Science, Warren's Paradise Found, Arnold's Secret of Death, Hovey's Mind Reading, Leonowen's Life and Travel in India, The Open Door. John Marshall, Wilson's Congressional Government, Taussig's Present Tariff, George's Progress and Poverty...
...Gosse's Gray, Goethe's Works, Representative German Poems, Bascom's Ethics, or Science of Duty, Oliver's Dean Stanley, Timayenis' Greece in the Time of Homer, The Stateman's Year-Book, Porter's Elements of Modern Science, Warren's Paradise Found, Arnold's Secret of Death, Hovey's Mind Reading, Leonowen's Life and Travel in India, The Open Door, John Marshall, Wilson's Congressional Government, Taussig's Present Tariff, George's Progress and Poverty...
...dies. Then he is plunged into bitter grief-a grief so honest that we are forced to respect it, for grief, somehow, throws a mantle of dignity around even a fool. Yet his sorrows are much aggravated by various causes-among others a natural fear taking root in his mind that perhaps he would be condemned to Hell on his death. He speaks of "the want of absolute certainly of being happy after death, the sure prospect of which is frightful." And for a year he is the picture of woe and gloom...
...subito furore obreptus, commence Don Quixote for his adorable Dulcinea. I have reason to believe she has a very good opinion of me; and indeed a youth of my turn has a better chance to gain the affections of a lady of her character than any other: but my mind is in such an agreeable situation, that being refused would not be so fatal as to drive me to despair, as your hot-brained romantic lovers talk. Oh, Willie; how happy should I be if she consented, some years after this, to make me blest." It is almost unnecessary...
...circumstances the task set is a hard one. To lead, as gently as is consistent with firmness, the mistaken elders along a path which is difficult to their unaccustomed feet, to repeat again and again with kind insistence the doctrines which are so easy to the more enlightened mind, never forgetting that consideration which is due to a blood relation,-this is a duty calling into play all the self-assurance and confident superiority which even a careful training of four years can bestow...