Word: proof
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...minute details of an author's style. The trouble often lies in the fault-finders themselves. Most men do not care, or are too indolent to take the trouble, to "grasp the action as a whole"; it is even often considered "a low trick," and not a proof of some knowledge of his duties, when an instructor gives notice that a synopsis of the argument may be required for examination. You will rarely find a good scholar who grumbles at being forced to pay attention to "the details of grammar, of philology, of history, of geography," etc.; in fact...
...struggle after this are more to be coveted than all temporal prosperity, must not that success, in the narrow sense that this author uses the word, be just the thing not to be desired, and a feeling of failure, notwithstanding the work of a lifetime, be the best proof of a faith worth having? To quote once more from the author of "Success" "There can be no more melancholy object than an unsuccessful man, one who confesses that his life has been a failure." Is it not more melancholy to see a man who has so far forgotten the boundless...
PERHAPS it would be well to look at the 3d proof of the Annuals before saying that Junior Annuals begin Saturday...
...proof on my table, U. 2 sees once more...
Great Jove! It's all changed! There's a new proof come...