Word: traced
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three great masters in the three great periods of the school's life.- Cheever in the seventeenth century, Lovell in the eighteenth, and Gardner in the nineteenth. The school was the teacher of many of the most prominent men of the country. Within its walls John Hancock learned to trace the name which stands first among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here were educated the Adamses, Paul Revere, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Emerson, Beecher, President Eliot, and a host of men who have stamped themselves on the minds of men. The speaker declared himself in favor...
...lightly turns to thoughts of love." Boswell's fancy was fixed on love during the whole twelve-month. His letters, unfortunately, do not begin until he is twenty, so that we are precluded from any view of his real life until that time; but after that age, we can trace, with a good deal of accuracy, the course of his thoughts. In the very first letter we plunge head-long into an account of one of his many attachments. It does not describe one of the important affairs, but it is so characteristically told that I quote the letter...
...make it impossible to stand them up. The balls are in insufficient quantity, there being few small ones, and those for the most part chipped or split. Add to this that the alleys are seldom lighted till five o'clock or after, that there is not a trace of a sponge in any of the cups provided for them, and that the chalk is fragmentary and scarce. These defects can be remedied at a trifling expense, and will greatly please all lovers of "the great freshman elective...
...Bradford was the annalist of the Pilgrims, and Mr. Winsor has characterized his book as the corner stone of American history. During the Revolution, when the English soldiers made the Old South Church their riding school, this book was taken from the antiquary room of the Old South. No trace of it since was discovered till towards the middle of this century, when it was found in the library of the Bishop of London, at Fulham. Mr. Motley, when he was minister to England, attempted to recover the book, but was unsuccessful. A copy of it, however, was made...
...syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever modifications in English orthography have been the result of a desire to expunge useless letters. The Englishman replies that in these cases we destroy all trace of the origin of the word. But "favor," "labor" and "honor" are pure Latin, and the insertion of the letter "u" is a bit of spurious orthography, while "check" certainly comes near the French source (echec) than when spelt "cheque...