Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced to sit for several hours upon the gallows, of course at the county jail in Cambridge; and he occupied his time in composing rhymes of which the following is a specimen...
...wrath to come, if they persist in their greedy ways. However, we have not the heart to deprive them altogether of a pleasure apparently so much sought by them. We would suggest that they petition for the use of the tubs all night; and then they may sit and soak in peace, undisturbed by the maledictions of the men waiting without...
...says that "it is easier to lounge in an easy chair and read a book or two in connection with a certain course, than to sit at a desk in the library, or in your own room and learn from consultation from a number of writers and books what the real ethics of a question is." We heartily agree with him. It is much easier to sit in an easy chair, but if we sit at our desk - in our own room to - and discard the easy chair, isn't it rather hard on "'88" if we get the very...
...History 13, and let us suppose that there are twenty-five that "'88" will not term "lazy." How is that pile of books to be distributed at the close of the day? "'88" secures three out of five, let us say, and '89 takes the rest, and then they sit down at their desks - in their own room - and when the unfortunate twenty three men cry out for general reading they say: - 'Lo! you are lazy - look at us - we work - why don't you?" "'88" now says with the utmost truth that Dr. Hart has perfected his list...
...matter of reproach that we do not wish to do our work in a fragmentary manner - and fragmentary it must be, if we cannot find the reserved books, or if some other man finds them before us? It is a matter of reproach that we sit in our rooms - aye, in an easy chair, and read our history as a connected whole, working from the beginning - cause and result - and not as ninety nine cases out of a hundred we must have done with the topic reading: - working up the result and leaving the cause till next week...