Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...see was as fat as priest could wish...
...side with the impulse and filial love which combats and finally overcomes it. This is "higher" art, and, to us, it is more interesting. The conception is a more difficult one, and it is the skill shown in overcoming the difficulty that gives such pleasure to those who see...
...seems to pride himself, is the maps of the Saratoga, Troy, Harlem, and Springfield courses. Those of the Troy and Harlem courses are, of course, of less interest to men in College than the Saratoga map, which will most certainly be very useful this summer, both to those who see the races, and to those who merely read the newspaper accounts of them. The appearance of the Springfield course is so familiar to most of us that we have little need or desire to study the position of the famous sand-bank and the Long Meadow. In the record...
...Just to see what she will...
...chief argument against its use being the startling and brilliant discovery that it is a "filthy weed." The writer seems to think that if he throws enough mud, some will surely stick; and so, Swinburne-like, wallows in a mire of coarse invective. Confessing that we do not see anything inherently nasty in the smoke of an aromatic herb, whatever may be the mental effects, we give a few selections as samples of the style of argument employed in the poorest grade of Western journalism: "If it was n't just for the name of the thing, I'd rather...