Word: rare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Where I plucked these flowers so preciously rare...
...time when dispassionate or unrecompensed criticism of the works of our authors is rare enough, there exists for us, as students, a need in criticism that yet more urgently demands to be supplied. I refer to that variety of criticism which has occasionally found a place in our college papers, and which we are sometimes permitted to enjoy in our best American monthlies. It partakes less of the nature of the ordinary iceberg criticism than of the friendly, genial nature of scholarly admiration. It is a result attainable by those who can felicitously express exactly what constitutes the peculiar charm...
...life. Reading, writing, a little notion of French grammar, of arithmetic, French history, and geography, of church history and religion, - such are the elements of the instruction. Every commune must have its schools, - one for boys and one for girls, but generally entirely distinct. Mixed schools are very rare in France, while with you young men and girls to the age of fourteen or fifteen, and sometimes older, go to the same school. That is a custom that the French, whether rightly or wrongly, do not understand, and would not permit. A schoolmaster has charge of a boys' school...
...eleventh century is famous as having been the time of two men, of whom the one was conqueror of England, and the other was savior of the Church. Duke William is popularly believed to have had the qualities of a strategist and of a statesman, in addition to rare ability in conducting a pitched fight. Hildebrand is universally admitted to have been the ideal of an ecclesiastical hero: he had one purpose directing all the actions of his life, which was to make the Papal Church the supreme principality; he laid his plots deep, and was quick to seize every...
THIS peculiar trait of human nature, which leads some to withdraw themselves from a friendly association with the rest of mankind, is rare, and we are thankful for it. It is so seldom seen, that to a majority it is a thing of the past, and supposed by them to have perished with the writers who so fully described some remarkable examples of it long years ago. But in a mild form it exists at the present time, and has found its way into the sanctum of the student. We have in our little world well-marked examples of this...