Word: speak
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gentlemen of the troupe we cannot speak with such unqualified praise. Herr Hablemann is a fair actor, and has many good tones in his voice, when he happens to hit them; but his old weakness for singing false has become chronic, and sometimes exhibits itself in a most exasperating manner: witness, the sextette in "Lucia," on Monday night. Mr. Joseph Maas is not a good actor as yet, but has a serviceable tenor voice, fresh, strong, and reasonably well cultivated. Mr. Clarke, the third tenor or falsetto or whatever he is to be called, acts poorly and walks...
...College Journal, like the owl, has taken up the cudgels in defence of Jesuit teaching. In speaking of the "groundless insinuations which every author who has to speak of the Jesuits mingles with his commendations," says: "Among American authors, Parkman is notably culpable in this respect. The minds of the younger scions of Parkman's circle of readers, or of such of them as read the Harvard Magenta, are in like manner carefully poisoned by such writings as those of 'V. J. R.' on Education in France, in that paper." We shudder at the thought of the moral responsibility...
...Romance offers us this feature, and is therefore of no little importance in the history of speech. Its study is, so to speak, the A B C of the philologist. It offers a criterion, a test, for other and more difficult studies, and is a living type on which we may build our theories. Its application is practical enough. The habit of comparison and inquiry which it forms finds daily exercise, and cannot be too highly cultivated; and in our age, when a man of culture cannot exist without the knowledge of at least two languages besides...
Both were attracted (so to speak...
...next letter I shall speak of Secondary Instruction of colleges and lyceums...