Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...connection with the essay on Mr. Gladstone, the following from Mr. Emerson's "English Traits" is interesting. He is speaking of English university men: "When born with good constitutions they make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box-Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys; and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture...
...snow about the north entry of Thayer was covered yesterday morning with the charred leaves of a burnt text book. One leaf, whose edges only had been burned, showed that the book was a Latin dictionary. On one side was the word moneo with its definitions. This leaf took the hint and escaped the flames...
They found and bare her home: and in whose arms...
...that sweet innocence whose dead smile crept
That past whose face disfigur'd looks...