Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cried the Professor, "It is impossible for him to resist that attack!" It was, indeed. These exhibitions of brutality were made two or three times every lecture, until Professor Reid's features were wholly undistinguishable, and he was inclined to doubt the testimony of his own consciousness. Mr. Stewart, too, whom Professor Hamilton had also used for purpose of illustration, but much more tenderly, had received severe punishment; while Dr. Brown had been knocked senseless the first time he appeared, and had been seen no more...
...have kept awake voluntarily; but even that feeble excitement was denied us. Dread of an examination was all that kept us from going to sleep. And the dread was fully justified by the examination when it came: "In a certain case, what is the defence advocated by Reid and Stewart, and what are Hamilton's objections to it, - explaining, also, his defence?" "Give in full the rules of the P. R." Six questions like these were certainly enough for one hour. Happy he who could draw, who understood perspective and foreshortening! I tried diagrammatic representations, and got the ring...
Possibly I contemplate a business life. Here, too, a knowledge of the ancient tongues is indispensable. Who ever heard of an unclassical man succeeding in business? Are you aware that Stewart and Vanderbilt are as familiar with the laws of augments and reduplications connected with the Greek root as they are with the workings of the same laws upon the root of evil...