Word: utters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...silk socks and pumps, only stopping now and then to light a caporal, he will tell you long yarns of his experiences at the Mabille, the Students' Balls, the Argylle Rooms, or the Alhambra; and when you get up to go, he will close his remarks by deprecating the utter dulness of America...
...long succession of mathematical puzzles; and we are informed that the scale of marks has been so low that nearly one hundred members of the class are in imminent danger of conditions. We are bound to express our surprise that the number is so small, and to utter a remonstrance against an excess of rigor which can only be explained by the supposition of inexperience on the part of the instructor...
...must be slight in themselves, but the effects which they often produce are out of all proportion to their own importance. Who has not been driven from his books by the advent of the daily hag, more ugly than the witches in Macbeth, showing in her own person an utter contempt for cleanliness, and secretly wondering at the foolishness of a man who cares to have his carpet swept and his table dusted? Yet how can the unfortunate goody be expected to know how to take proper care of a room? Possibly in her early years she was in service...
Happiness, therefore, - such, at least, as this author refers to, - is not to be obtained. Is there anything, then, to save us from utter misery? Let me quote once more from Carlyle...
...here the author justifies a true use of the word "teleology," opposing an utter denial of final causes, as he has already censured those who regard everything merely as an end. Both views are true when taken together; the relation of one part of the universe to another is that of the parts of a great painting which are true in themselves, but lack something unless united. Upon this view rests the belief in the "ideal element which is the life of all things," and which, "taking up into itself all the results of our analysis, assumes a grandeur...