Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HAVING read in one of the daily papers that the Soldene Opera Bouffe Company intend making their appearance shortly, for the purpose of delighting the youth of Cambridge and Boston, I thought I would take it upon myself to bestow on all those young gentlemen who propose to deliver up their filthy lucre as a votive offering to Terpsichore, and yield themselves to the pleasing diversions of the aforesaid company, the following words of advice...
SEVERAL men in Philosophy are beginning to think Mill a dull boy in his youth, since Pascal at three years of age evolved a theory which Bacon cribbed in his LATER works...
More than once has a good honest American youth shaken hands with his classmates after the "Annuals," in a natural, unaffected way, and too often has three months in England or on the Continent produced wonderful changes. He returns with a studied stammer or a cockney drawl, and pronounces all his a's as broad alphas...
...five Mohawk Indians, armed each with a gun, pistol, knife, and hatchet, appeared in the town, but were immediately arrested by the constables, true to their duty then, as now, and ever bold in discharging it. In 1668 "some of the most respectable inhabitants were chosen for katechising the youth of the town...
...Some youth who yet in darkness groped...