Word: wont
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...intimate friends. He added to these qualities a remarkable saneness of judgement. No theory, however plausible, could run away with him, and his advice, which was freely given, was marked by a steady and comprehensive soundness. His friends of every age, as well as his pupils, were wont to consult him on all sorts of subjects, with the certainty of getting illuminating and safe suggestions...
...plain, it must not continue. The prospects for turning out a good team are excellent, and they must not be dwarfed by a lack of enthusiasm on the part of the students. Want of loyalty to a team must never be charged to Harvard men, whose enthusiasm is not wont to flag even in the face of defeat. The Athletic Association is in need of help, and if Harvard is to have a fair chance in the intercollegiate contest next spring, student interest must revive. The men training for the team owe it to the University to do their best...
VI.Montalgne.Essay writers of the old fashioned Tatler school were wont to catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this method, though he commonly found in his library the peg on which to hang his inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement...
Besides these more important aspects of the play there is another not uninteresting to Latin students. The whole is given with the comparatively lately adopted 'Roman pronunciation.' Many persons are wont to ridicule this method, simply because their ears are unaccustomed to it. They prefer the mumpsimus of the ignorant priest to the sumpsimus of the Latin ritual. The sooner such persons, or any persons for that matter, become accustomed to the right way, the sooner they will find that there is no more difficulty and no less enjoyment in this than in the old barbarous jargon. For the English...
...made by it. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thoughts and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner company that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves...