Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...visiting picture-galleries and palaces, and dreaming under the combined influence of a cigar and the Lake of Como, are very poor preparations for mathematics and logic, relieved only by the milder diversions of a Cambridge winter; and the average student is apt to return with a much clearer conception of the works of Offenbach than of those of Michael Angelo, and of Monaco than of the Matterhorn...
...that Jones said something about its not being right to allow somebody to go to bed alone; that somebody chased Jones around the room, and finally threw a boot at his head as he disappeared through the door. All this is a little misty; but what followed is much clearer. I remember I sank into an arm-chair by the fire with no definite purpose in mind, but how long I sat thus I have no idea, - it might have been hours or minutes. Without my hearing any previous step in the hall the door opened, and I felt that...