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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Which are but silly stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GUFF. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

Putting together the Stagirite, the Saint, and Politico, we arrive at the following process and result. The Material Cause is the stuff of which the paper is made, and the Formal Cause is the paper-mill. So far we have kept in the region of pure optimism. "And now here comes" the trouble. The Efficient Cause is the one who makes out the examination-paper, and the Final Cause is the intention in his mind, a priori, to condition the examined, while the condition itself is the Lost Cause, but does not take effect until it receives the stamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CONDITIONED. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...college." " Nothin's forbidden, 'cept young men," replied she; "and I don't take much stock in novels, anyhow. There ain't enough meat to 'em, - lot of girls and men that don't know anything, nor can't talk about anything 'cept each other and love; oh! awful stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STANDARD AT WELLESLEY. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

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