Word: preception
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Welcome every opportunity for writing." In the discussion of this second precept, the author takes occasion to say that "since frequency of writing has more to do with ease of writing than anything else, I count newspaper men lucky because they are writing all the time, and I do not think so meanly of their product as the present popular disparagement would seem to require. It is hasty work undoubtedly, and bears the marks of haste. But in my judgment, at no period of the English language has there been so high an average of sensible, vivacious and informing sentences...
Three Generations looked to him as to a Benefactor, a Friend, a Father. His Precept was glorified by his Example...
Even as a teacher he is often too much of a pedagogue, and is apt to forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes...
...Graham's Mistake" is a light story of a foolish youth who, however, manages to teach a friend a very salutary precept...