Word: withals
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...intention during the present winter to publish a text-book for the use of the undergraduates who take Natural History as an elective; this book was to contain simply a description of animals, leaving the student to draw his own inferences from their organization. He had, withal, contemplated writing a work which should show the affinities existing between the various animals of natural history...
...Packer Quarterly comes to us with its dashing blue covers and neatly printed pages, so enticing withal (we know it is edited by young ladies), that we fain would praise it. But our conscience scarcely permits us to do that, so we content ourselves with criticising what seem to us faults in its articles. The first part is heavily critical and religious; the poems are, to say the least, tame, and after every essay there seem to be printed the words, "Haec fabula docet." What articles are not of this nature are the merest society twaddle. Servant-girls and babies...