Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...coat-pocket. Several sailors pull at a rope and a sail goes up. The men utter such discordant cries during the process that I go to the captain and complain. He tells me to telegraph to New York and have them dismissed. I ask him in what part of the ship the telegraph-office is. He stares at me, and says, "Just abaft the donkey engine," and goes away laughing. Wonder what he is laughing at. I see a good many different things that look like engines, but none with a donkey. Think the captain might have been more explicit...
...mile running race, consolation race of one half mile, three-legged race, and three mile walking race. The Committee also decided that five minutes shall intervene between each contest, that all contestants must be on hand when their race is called, that only members of the association can take part in the contests, and that entries must be made before the twenty-third, by applying to the President at Weld 10. We are also requested to say that all members will receive from the Secretary, on paying the initiation fee of one dollar, a printed certificate of membership, with...
...college. It is a remarkable fact, however, that when a country school sends one man, say in a decade, to college, he almost invariably obtains and maintains a high place in his class, even if entering under a full card of conditions. Exceptions occur, and yet perhaps the larger part of the leading fifth of most classes are from schools of no general reputation. The reason for this lies in the fault of many of the most popular schools in the country. Too many men who enter with honor rely entirely on their fit, and, feeling for the first...
...failing to see in them anything that was not gross and terrible. No. 26, the city on the hill with snow-capped mountains rising over it, serves indeed as the recorded defect of mediaeval landscape; but it is vain to seek for any expression of refined perception, on the part of the painter, or of either beauty or character in the rendering of mountain, cloud, or tree. The great cartoon of Kaulbach, almost impressive at first sight, appears, after but a brief examination, too mechanical for the work of a really imaginative artist; the equality of the pains expended...
...begins his work by pointing us down into the abyss of the unknowable. Alpine travellers tell us that sometimes a terrible abyss is bridged over by a reach of hard drifted snow, so solid that one can walk over it, for the most part, in security; so thin that a stroke of the alpenstock will pierce it, leaving an opening through which may be discerned the blue vacancy beneath. Herbert Spencer drives his staff through the thin stratum of drifted words, of consolidated forms of thought, of congealed tradition which we have felt to be so solid beneath our feet...