Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leading article in the Century for December is the Selections from Wellington's Letters, by Mrs. Davies-Evans. The extracts are from his correspondence with Mrs. Jones of Pantglas in 1851-2 and reveal a side of the Iron Duke which his biographers have hitherto left unnoticed. The second part of Mr. Jefferson's autobiography contains chiefly an account of his experience starring in the south in connection with Burton, Burke, Owen, Wallack and other actors of the forties. The history of Abraham Lincoln by Hay and Nicolay is drawing to a close, the topic for this number being...
...origin and history, as well as local peculiarities and dialects, where peculiarities have developed into dialects, will be studied by the society. This study of the natural and unconsidered speech of people in different localities must prove a fruitful one, and will doubtless be productive of results that will reveal much that is interesting in the growth of the language. But a comparative study of this nature demands the co-operative work of many persons if thorough results are to be secured Glossaries of the dialectical forms current in limited sections must be secured, and a careful study...
...leading article of the number, "George Washington," by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, is highly entertaining and instructive, as it treats of that period in Washington's life, of which the public know least, his career as president and his later life. Extracts taken from his diary reveal the simplicity and dignity of our first president, and from a vivid description of his official life in New York. There are several plates accompanying the article, among which are copies of portraits of Washington by distinguished artists of that time...
...means few, we have good reason to believe. Last year discoveries were made by students in the course, and with the growth of a better knowledge of the use of historical sources which comes with time, we may confidently expect that the work this year will reveal some heretofore sealed pages of American history...
...writer says: "I am a native of another part of the country, and have for half-a-dozen years been living in one of the suburbs of Philadelphia; and, having become much attached to this ugly city and its delightful people, I have longed for some authoritative voice to reveal to them that the world was not bounded by the Delaware and the Schuylkill. It is too much to hope that your able article, or even the awakened consciences of the Times and the Press, will effect a conversion, but they may make the question to be asked in Philadelphia...