Word: minding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...opposite me who helps himself twice to everything. He leans over to me and says, "I wish I could eat as much as you do; my appetite is never good on board ship." I take no notice of him, and make no reply. He does n't seem to mind it much. Such people never know when they are rebuked...
...awake. Steward asks if I will get up to breakfast. Reply, "Of course I will get up to breakfast." Smoking pork-steak! Miserable meal. Cannot eat anything. Think I would like fresh air. Go up on deck and stagger to the rail. My beaver blows overboard. Do not mind it at all. Sympathizing gentleman lends me a cap three times too large for me. I think people are laughing, but do not pay any attention to them. Am entirely indifferent to everything. Think I had better go back to bed . . . .July 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, July...
...since her mind was altered, bent...
...sons have done more to reflect honor upon our Alma Mater than this eminent and distinguished jurist. His fame was national. The early promise he gave of great power and success in the profession he had chosen was more than fulfilled by what he achieved. The characteristics of his mind were clearness of apprehension, power of analysis, and breadth of comprehension, by which he mastered every subject submitted for his examination in all its parts and relations, and was able to reach conclusions with almost unerring judgment. He had eminently legal and judicial qualities of mind which placed...
...these high-flown and often utterly ridiculous descriptions of a future state were simply indifferent as a means for good or evil, or if they combined in themselves harmlessness for the hearers and satisfaction for the abnormal state of the preacher's mind, we could contentedly refrain from even a passing remark on the waste of time and effort...