Word: reader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...folly of attempting to do in this way just what the newspapers are every day doing. The lecturer must depend upon the paper for his knowledge, and his work would be little more than a culling of news from its columns, something, it might be argued, which every intelligent reader does for himself. But unfortunately, unless men are thoroughly read in history they are often unable to realize the true incidence of events. It is not sufficient to have read the newspapers for a number of years past, nor to have made a desultory study of history, in order that...
...CONSTANT READER...
...dislike to be forever harping on the old subjects, and their constant rewriting is as troublesome to us as the perusal of them can possibly be to the reader; yet we must once more raise our voices in protest against the temperature of the Chapel. Of late there has been no pretense made of heating the place, and yesterday morning the temperature was very near the zero point. It is positively inhuman in the persons who are responsible for this condition of affairs to let things go on as they have been going. A few more experiences like that...
...foregoing papers of this discussion, will apply. A light, or humorous poem is sometimes tolerable, even if it lacks the greatest finish. A good joke may often carry off a poor rhyme. Yet an equally weak attempt to express something very thoughtful, produces an uncommonly depressing effect upon the reader. The language is so inadequate to the idea that the work is in no way successful. So, on this score alone, it is less hazardous to try light verse...
...historical essay, or biographical sketch, shows neither thought nor originality. Yet such a statement is far from true. For it is no light matter to take a given number of facts about an affair of ordinary interest and so arrange them as to hold the attention of a reader. In one way, such is the task of an artist in making colors into a picture. The writer must see what is to be in the foreground, and what in the background, how his state-statements are to be grouped to show his meaning most forcibly. In short, he must have...