Word: weep
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been begun early in the twelfth century with the study of Roman law. But it was not until two centuries later that Petrarch revived the study of the Latin classics. The promised land, however, of Greek antiquity he was only permitted to see from Pisgah. He could only weep over the Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe was Boccaccio, and he was never more than a student. But at the close of the fourteenth century a really competent teacher of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras, found his way to Italy, and then the work began...
...weep w'en de men don' slide...
...make the angels weep...
...question is not to be settled by any such considerations as that. The protectionists get lachrymose. They are grieved that there is not more respect for autiquity. They sigh to think that young men are growing up who assail the theories of old political saints and economic quacks. They weep over the unworthiness of a young professor who will not respect old humbugs. They run to protect Evarts with the names of Lincoln and Sumner. I am old enough to wish that I was younger. In the course of my life I have picked up one or two observations...
...York papers have commented on the recent disturbances at Princeton in a way that must have made poor Dr. McCosh weep. In spite of the attempts of the doctor to make the Princeton students good and orthodox, the New York Times probably has some good reason for saying that "the Princeton College boys have never won special glory for weak-mindedness and pretty deportment. There is much more whole-heartedness in the way they make investments in beer than in their contributions to the Sunday school cause, and vile rumor has insinuated that poker parties are more to the Princetonian...