Word: second
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Finibus is generally allowed to be the finest specimen of philosophical Latin prose; it is as hard as any of Cicero's works except the strictly legal orations. It is proposed to read the first two books of this treatise; the first an exposition of Epicurus's ethics, the second an attack upon them. Horace in his epistles appears as a practical epicurean in middle life. Persius - universally regarded as one of the hardest of Roman authors - is a young stoic of the time of Nero. The course will not be made intentionally difficult, but it will require close attention...
...since early in the season. Weld had made some changes, which would probably have been very useful had they had ten days to row together before the race, but as it was they caused some distrust in the crew, and it was whispered that Matthews would probably come in second, and perhaps give Holworthy a hard pull for first place, for they were the stronger crew. Holyoke had made such radical changes at the last moment that none who know the necessity of uniformity of rowing doubted but that, barring accidents, she would come in last...
Holworthy led all the way back, while there was a dead set-to between Matthews and Weld for second place...
...that kind of whom we often read, but fortunately seldom meet. The days were not long enough for him to recount the wonders he had seen and done, and all with the most utter contempt of probability and disregard of grammar. He had recently been married, - for the second or third time I should judge, - and had his wife, a blooming maiden of twenty or so, with him, and as he was between fifty-five and sixty himself, he was conducting himself as absurdly as is usually the case under similar circumstances. On the morning of the third day after...
...account, to race for a cup or a work of art. M. Loubat has just officially announced to the Yacht Club of France that he has offered a cup worth $ 1,000 to the New York Yacht Club, to be sailed for, in open sea, on the second Thursday in October, 1876. The vessels are to be schooners, of 100 tons and over. The owner of the Enchantress is a member adjoint of the Conseil Maritime of the French Yacht Club...