Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...convert an author into his own language as into himself. How utterly unlike their originals are Pope's Homer, and Hoole's Tasso, Murphy's Tacitus and Francis's Horace? The greater the author, the more he suffers, because power of expression is always a chief part of the outfit of a great author. Certain phrases may be translated, like the famous: "They make a solitude and call it peace" of Tacitus, but who ever saw a satisfactory version of the concluding paragraphs of the Life of Agricola...
...above outfit, with two or three pairs of extra trousers, will fit one out for the winter in good shape, and if selected carefully, will prove truly economical. Being in the business, it would be in bad taste to recommend my own firm. But put yourself in the hands of any one of the five or six first-class city tailors, one in whom you have confidence as to what is proper, artistic, and in good proportions...
...above outfit, with two or three pairs of extra trousers, will fit one out for the winter in good shape, and if selected carefully, will prove truly economical. Being in the business, it would be in bad taste to recommend my own firm. But put yourself in the hands of any one of the five or six first-class city tailors, one in whom you have confidence as to what is proper, artistic, and in good proportions...
...able to hire the same contractors for the business work in connection with all the teams. Instead of various contractors for making stands, roping off grounds +++ for various games, one contractor can be hired to do all the work for a fixed sum. Still further, the purchase of athletic outfit can be made of one firm or store instead of with several, as it is at present. In this way, current expenses can be kept lower than they are now. We may expect also a solution of the training-table problem and the establishment of one which will prove more...
...Outfit...