Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ocean, and we must read and reread, when the simplicity will resolve itself into the true philosophical confusion. It is admirably adapted therefore for Primary and Grammar Schools, and a few hints on the proper method of shooting the young idea in this direction may be not out of place. To carry out the humorous idea of the book, the instructor should lay down his opinions as decisively and finally as the judge on the bench. He is to assume dogmatism in its most absolute phase, and establish a terrorism over the minds of his pupils...
...BRADFORD, Asst. Treasurer.MESSRS. A. and C. Black, of Edinburgh, have in press, for immediate publication, a complete edition of the works of E. A. Poe. This collection will appear in four monthly parts, containing many new pieces, and will endeavor to place this eccentric author in a more favorable light...
...Foot ball Eleven, while in Montreal, were, through the courtesy of the McGill Club, witnesses of many pleasing sights. Among these, none was more interesting than the fox-hunt at Verdun, a place five miles distant from the city, and just above the Lachine Rapids. All preparations had been made the previous evening, and Saturday morning found us on our way to the place appointed for the meeting. The ride along the bank of the St. Lawrence was very delightful, and we reached the Manor-house in time to form in the line of carriages starting for the woods...
...place me where in early spring...
...would be well to suggest that in forming a club of this kind, members should bear in mind that here, as in other cases, concessions must be made by all, and that members ought to come expecting to yield certain points of rules and decorum, which in another place might be insisted on. However, personal objections should have small weight in these discussions, as it is probable that, through the courtesy of the Telegraph Company, games could be played by two opposite factions without their speaking to or even seeing each other...