Word: strength
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...things impossible. The little bird, seeing its parent flying from bough to bough, thinks it can do the same. Having found itself strong enough for the slight use of its limbs required within the narrow bounds of the nest, it confidently makes trial of its strength in the air. But, alas! the failure. Not till then does it learn its own weakness. The retirement of the study is well enough so far as it goes, but there is nothing like the rostrum for taking the conceit out of a man. The sooner and oftener he gets upon...
...pronouncing it the best exchange which has come to our table this year. Its articles are written upon subjects to which its fair contributors show themselves able to do justice; there is no attempt made to soar upon wings which the greatest men of the times have lacked strength to propel, while at the same time, that other extreme, so suggestive of elementary spelling-books and "puss-in-the-corner," is nowhere to be met with in its pages. It is very interesting, extremely sensible, and thoroughly feminine. As comparisons are odious, we will not draw any; but when...
...union there is strength, the social muscles of the University are developing finely. A number of new societies have been announced recently, and now two more are on the carpet. (The English Club has forsworn all foreign tongues...
...takes pains to deride. We have no room to speak of the other characters of the book, - of Lilly, for whose death no one can lament, for by such a woman the hero would have been influenced in the direction of his weakness rather than in that of his strength; of Mivers, and his Londoner, so like in principle to a periodical nearer home. The incidents with which the book abounds are all very interesting, though many of them are improbable. Even want of space cannot prevent our referring to the fete-day speech of the hero; when he wished...
...need be said in regard to any particular one than that it was like all preceding. Last year there were the usual happy reunions of the Graduates in different rooms of the dormitories; the usual affecting meetings in the Yard of friends who for years had not felt the strength of one another's arms, and upon the rather noisy demonstration of whose emotions the partial proctor gazed without a thought of publics or of suspensions, but with a sigh that by his unnatural employment he had cut himself adrift from all who had any right to fall upon...