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Word: nobler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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There is no delusion produced by the nobler title of professor; we know the difference both in the manner of giving and the instruction given. The relations between instructor and learner are different, are less restrained and more sociable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMPARISON. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

...Punch of a little girl, discovering that her doll is stuffed with sawdust, exclaiming that the world is hollow and that she wants to be a nun. So Kenelm Chillingly very early in life discovers that everything is vanity or humbug, and falls into that cynicism of the nobler sort, - possible only in a generous disposition, - which despises not men, but only what is mean and false in men. His character is consistent throughout, and a great though peculiar one. While he is as noble a man as is to be met with once in an age, still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

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