Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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However graceful and musical such poetry may be, the amount of dictionary work involved is more than sufficient to deter the general reader from dipping very deep into it.
The Annalist (Albion College, Mich.) contains this week much that is interesting and instructive. Its article upon the Edenic Intellect, equally brilliant and entertaining, begins with the startling announcement, "Human language hath personal as well as ethnic and cosmical relations." Let us ponder upon this, and when we have duly...
WE have received the March number of Lippincott's, which is as good as ever. It has a well-written and well-illustrated article on the "Roumi in Kabylia"; one by Professor T. B. Maury upon the Trans-Alleghany Water-Way; the opening chapters of Mr. William Black's new...
"In ghostly penance sounds of fiendish laughter
ADVERTISERS sometimes have a peculiar sense of the fitness of things. A glance at the columns of some of our exchanges prompts this remark. We find offered therein for the undergraduate's inspection almost everything, which we had supposed the undergraduate could never, under any circumstances, want, and if he...