Word: blending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have two ideas in our minds, the stronger one will expel the weaker; but if they be of the same strength, they will blend, and when we recall one we can recall the other. The ease with which we can, after remembering one idea, recall the other, depends on the strength of the blending, and the strength of the blending depends on the strength of the ideas. Strong impressions make strong ideas, and all we can do to facilitate remembrance is, therefore, to strengthen the impressions. This can be done in two ways, first, by concentrating the attention...
...reference to the study of Homer, Professor Wright urged that the student approach him with the feeling that he is nearing a monument in literature; not to blend futile research into minor matters with the effort to appreciate the poem. This is not necessary. If the student will read the poems of Homer as a literature he will be brought into direct and vivid contact with the poet and will see and understand as by instinct...
...second, when He was found disputing with the doctors; the third, when He cleansed the temple. These visits represent three periods of man's life: childhood, the desire for knowledge, and the desire to use this knowledge for the best purposes. No one is perfect unless all these periods blend together. The service closed with the singing of an anthem by Narsing, entitled "Come now, let us reason," followed by Hymn xxiv...
...modesty, grace, and wit that blend...