Word: silently
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...disfigurement of the Fogg Art Museum, which was dicovered yesterday morning is one of the most contemptible acts that has been perpetrated in this University for years. It is a piece of cowardly bravado that merits no further comment, and we should have passed it over in silent disgust, had we not felt that as the daily paper of the University, it was our duty to voice the strong spirit of indignation that has been felt throughout the University...
...today devote almost all their attention to business, politics or society; all their thought is to attain success in some particular line; when they are asked their opinion of Christ they are silent. They 'have not given much thought to that.' Some have a kind of shallow belief; some completely ignore Him. Few antagonize Him, because it is vulgar and contrary to public opinion. It is the Heronian view of Christ and His religion...
Among consonant sounds we find similar variations. The English sounds of ch and g, as found in church and gentle, although they do not exist in modern French, are found in the French of the eleventh century. There are fewer silent consonants, too, in the older tongure. Final d in modern French is pronounced like t when followed by a word beginning with a vowel. In old French the spelling was made to conform with the pronunciation...
Best general references: G. W. Cable, The Negro Question, The Silent South; A. W. Tourgee, An Appeal to Caesar; L. H. Blair, Prosperity of the South dependent on the Elevation of the Negro; J. T. Pomeroy, Constitutional Law, p. 213; North Am. Review, Vol. 153, pp. 641-660 (Dec. 1891); Contemporary Review, LXV., pp. 818-827 (June, 1894); Political Sci. Quarterly, IX. 671-701 (Dec., 1894); Popular Sci. Monthly, XXVIII. 24-37 (Nov., 1895); Nation. Vol. 53, pp. 208-209 (Sept. 17, 1891); Forum...
...disfranchisement of the negro would be an injustice.- (a) It is a discrimination on account of color.- (b) It is unjust to discriminate between an ignorant negro and an ignorant white man.- (c) It springs from prejudice: The Negro question, 3; The Silent South, 1.- (d) It would cause taxation without representation.- (e) It would make the government of some of the Southern States an obligarchy...