Word: personally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there was to have come off an interesting game of cricket between the cricket clubs of Lisbon and Oporto. The object of the formation of these societies is the playing of the game of cricket-match, an active, running, driving, jumping game, which only can be played by a person having a good pair of legs and in a climate where warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up the animal heat. Does the reader know how to play a game at cricket-match? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The player, close...
...better to say, small boy, of patriotic spirit has written in the margin of the volume, at various places, comments of which the following are specimens: "Good, very good!" "Oh, of course," "A good one," "Right you are," "A trifle exaggerated, friend," "How astonishing," etc., etc, Moreover, this patriotic person has taken pains to prevent his comments from being erased, by writing them in ink. This sort of thing is to be expected in the books of a public library, used by a miscellaneous class of readers; but it is humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot...
...First, the main facts of history, which include names and dates; second, the illustrative facts and anecdotes; third, the principles involved, or the philosophy of history. To master the principles and become familiarly conversant with the leading historical events, especially of his own country, is the duty of every person, and should be taught so as to become the pleasure of every student of history...
...work there, he invariably locked the door behind him. His return was sometimes delayed; once he kept her locked up over an hour. One goody took care of his room many years, receiving a handsome weekly fee for her extra trouble. The janitor of the building was the only person whom he would trust alone in his room. Some years since, a student who roomed over him come home in that stage of vinous fermentation known as "gloriously tight." The elated, if misguided young man stumbled up the steep and crooked stairs of Holworthy and at length tumbled...
...strain, and if you try this you will be sore and stiff for at least a week. If you are as I say, corpulent, take Turkish baths and long walks for about a week or ten days, by which time you will be ready to begin work. When a person strips for the first time in the season, he naturally feels light and strong, and equal to almost anything. If you allow this feeling to carry you away and do too much you will be thrown back in your work. How often have I heard men remark after the first...