Word: telling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...circles, or spirals, and picking out two ships at a time, until the enemy's fleet was reduced to two ships, which escaped. This engagement does not teach much of a lesson, except to be ready when the time comes to fight. The Japanese were too feebly opposed to tell anything about the relative merits of different classes of ships. The effect of this battle, like that at Ping Yan, was very decisive, opening the way to an advance upon the Gulf of Pechili, as that at Ping Yan had cleared the approaches to Manchuria...
...rest by the receipt of an intimation to the O. U. A. C., stating that the American universities have resolved to send a picked team over in July. The formal challenge is expected almost directly, when the Oxford and Cambridge authorities will meet and arrange preliminaries straight away. And tell it not in Gath, further challenges in the same direction are quite within the range of probability within the next few weeks, but we must dissemble awhile...
Whatever else Christ was, said Bishop Vincent, he was the exponent of love for humanity. We cannot tell how much he bore, but we know that it must have been much, for he said: "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me," and yet with most wonderful self-sacrifice he added, "nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt...
...interpreted to our knowledge by Burbage, who could scarcely have been very pleasing, for we are told that he was fat and scant of breath. The next great Hamlets of the past that we know anything of are Betterton, Garrick and Kemble; but even though we have much to tell us how these actors looked and how they played their parts, we cannot get a very distinct impression of their impersonations. Actors are like the visions in Macbeth who "come like shadows, so depart." The best criticism n acting that has come down to us, is the one that Fielding...
GERMAN 1A, SECTION 3. - Students will bring to class copies of "Wilhelm Tell" instead of Uhland's Ballads as announced...