Word: owning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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If, before reading a course of lectures, one should wait until he felt that he had mastered the subject in all its details, a sudden dumbness would fall over the professor's chair and the desk of the lyceum. At three score one would still be studying; at three score...
for wisdom is not the having learned any particular thing, but the result of many knowledge mutually acting upon and modifying each other. Michael Angelo chose for his emblem the figure of an old man in a child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am still learning...
At this moment, when the narrow Philistinism, which has long had things its own way in England, is showing its natural fruits, and we are beginning to feel ashamed and uneasy, and alarmed at it; now, when we are becoming aware that we have sacrificed to Philistinism culture, and insight...
"What a great opportunity manque was the Harvard Night of the Irving engagement ! Why in the world couldn't the boys have been boys, and given their natural, happy enthusiasm boyish vent ! What an hour it would have been, if when Terry stood there, a radiant vision, kissing her hand...
Professor Norton well characterized Howells at an authors' meeting which was held in Boston some seven years ago when he said "And as I came up I met Lemuel Barker on the stairs." In Howells we see one of the few representatives of what is called the new method, who...