Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...training to be got from the mental gymnastics of philosophy. While men are not apt to depreciate the value of their own possessions, so also they do not strive to gain that which they hold in little estimation. The old belief that a good memory was incompatible with a sound judgment has long since been exploded as contrary, not only to common sense, but to a large number of actual examples. The depreciation of memory is, then, largely a prejudice, and in so far unreasonable. Then the habit, so common, of putting on paper every fact we wish to remember...
...murmured, "Boy, I read by sound...
Breathed no sound of aught disturbing...
...stock in trade has become exhausted, he resorts to calling good things by bad names, which does quite as well. Strengthened by these advantages, he has succeeded, within the narrow compass of some seven hundred lines, in knocking modern society quite out of time. Any praise of ours must sound feeble after the tribute of one Albert T. Bledsoe, LL. D. and editor of the Southern Review, who has discovered that "the tremendous lash of satire" was not applied "with a more vigorous hand, or with a juster discrimination," by Juvenal, than by our author...
...practical purposes; for it would be better to be strong on a few well-chosen works than superficial on a great many and ill-arranged ones. From all the authors it is possible to make such a selection, which, while not extended, will introduce enough to afford a sound knowledge of literature, both past and present; to confine one's self to the past alone is like reading an old newspaper only to live behind the times, forgetting...