Word: characterized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A modest young lady guards the portal of that famous basement in Beacon Street, and receives your fee before you enter the shades beyond. Besides this pecuniary transaction she requests you to inscribe your name in a ponderous volume. Could it be that I was thus leaving a last record...
OCT. 1. Whereas it becometh a Sophomore to "lay aside childish things," and with his cane and beaver to assume a more manly and dignified character, not aping the manner of a street-car driver; Resolved, that I buy a copy of The Science of a New Life and a...
Therefore, if you wish to retain the good opinions of your companions, be reserved and quiet, be never moved to laughter by a pun or joke; for the man who perpetrates it is half ashamed of himself, half convinced that he is doing something unseemly, and if you retain your...
But let one beware how he ventures to assume this character, if it is not inborn. It is not an easy part to assume, and all labor will be in vain unless there exist a priori some natural adaptation for it. One must learn to have perfect control of himself...
Some, perhaps, will deny the value of this thorough mastery of a few branches of knowledge instead of an acquaintance with all; in answer, two considerations might be brought up, - one the effect on character of becoming perfectly certain in some department of learning, feeling that in one thing at...