Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Unluckily, one finds no incentive, from his own circumstances, to pay any regard to what the rest of mankind is doing, or to make himself acquainted with the general news of the day.
Still we should keep in mind our true position, lest by being free from care while in college we should forget that success in after-life depends upon self-reliance, and that whatever is accomplished will be accomplished independently of others.
WE feel at liberty, or rather we feel it our duty, to allude in a very decided manner to certain statements relating to college matters which have lately appeared in the Boston Advertiser. We refer especially to the Advertiser of last Wednesday, in which, among other statements, - none of which...
In regard to this we have two remarks to make: first, that in the most important particular the statement was absolutely wrong; and, second, that the whole matter was one which did not concern the general public in the least, and which, it is obvious to all, could not be...
PROBABLY no one has ever attempted prose writing wherein he has endeavored to convey his ideas by metaphors, without feeling the force of Voltaire's complaint "En l'ecrivant meme l'idee m'echappe." And if this is true of prose writing, where words are not restricted, how much more...