Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...average draws fifteen books in a term year,-almost two each month,-is rather high than low, for, if the contents of each book are impressed on the mind so vividly that they immediately present themselves when wanted, this is surely the nucleus of an ever-increasing stock of valuable knowledge,-a requisite to all of any real literary attainments...
Every one begins life with a certain capital, to last through life; some have more, some less, but all have their individual stock in trade; the quicker it is disposed of, the sooner one finds himself bankrupt in mind and body, and, what is of more importance, without the means of recovery...
...Globe.At this theatre Mr. Florence has lately given us some good renderings of the leading parts of "The Ticket-of-Leave Man," and "No Thoroughfare." The support given him by the Stock Company of the Globe was probably as strong as he ever had the good fortune to receive; and by their means the several plays in which he appeared were relieved from the stigma of absolute dulness...