Word: zest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the zest of life is gone when we know that all is fixed. Do we read a story with less interest because the last page was written long ago? Indeed, the man of clear vision, who can estimate the forces at work in him and around him, is encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast...
Granting, then, that fatalism does not take away the zest of life let us inquire how much it modifies our notions of right and wrong. It is plain that no possible answer to the problem of freewill can change the experience men have had of what is good for them. Such conduct as has proved useful in the past, cannot but be thought wise for the future. In so far, therefore, as our notion of right and wrong is founded on experience, it would not seem to be at all effected by fatalism; and we have seen that fatalism does...
...calculus lesson or making up a condition in Freshman Algelba, Careful count is kept of every motion, and when the reacquired number is reached, with frightened countenance the ropes are dropped. Such exercise is useless. Exercise to be benefit had must been treed into with anticipated pleasure and with zest. And this is just the spirit which our new assistant is trying to infuse into what, before have been to many irksome tasks. We never till now, realized Low necessary is an instructor in gymnasium work, and we only wonder how we have got along all this time without...
...Greek and Latin? The days of reasoning a language into hard, narrow rules and set ways of translating are over, and it will soon be possible for the average man of the world to take up his Homer or Cicero and read them with as much zest and as little trouble as he does the latest French novel or the most recent German pamphlet on philosophy...
...gone ; certainly his appearance is redoubtable. The apology which rose to your lips, however, dies away unuttered when you notice his insolent stare and catch the words, "Wie viele dummer jungen ?" (Literally, how many foolish children ?) Taking umbrage at the tone no less than the words, with true American zest for repartee, you reply, "Ein," and await further hostilities. To your surprise, the student merely hands you his card with freezing courtesy and inquires your address. Somewhat dazed, you inform him and continue your walk, wondering at the customs of the German student and congratulating yourself on your witty reply...