Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...them. To tap your adversary lightly on the forehead, or playfully swing your right hand against his ribs and see his look of injured innocence, gives a sense of calm satisfaction, - 't is an animal pleasure, if you please, but none the less real on that account, nor is delight in the manly feeling of being able to defend one's self to be condemned...
...first which occurred to me was that of the ordinary method, namely, of giving notice that those interested in playing chess were requested to meet at a certain time, and then electing officers, framing a constitution, and performing all that paraphernalia and pomp so dear to those students who delight in seals and the sight of their names recorded on the lists of as many clubs as possible...
...true admiration for a teacher, a glow of enthusiasm for work, a thrill of pleasure at some excellent saying, give it expression. Do not be ashamed of these emotions. Cherish the natural sentiment of personal devotion to the teacher who calls out your better powers. It is a great delight to serve an intellectual master. We Americans are but too apt to lose this happiness. German and French students get it. If ever in after years you come to smile at the youthful reverence you paid, believe me, it will be with tears in your eyes...
...With them I take delight in weal...
THEN, I could wish that besides this sort of instruction which would be the delight of the delicate, and the passe-temps of the indolent and the rich, as letters were at Rome, there should be other courses of study. When a government takes upon itself the national education of a people, it should adopt some system allowing full scope to diverse aptitudes, and should try to give satisfaction to all tastes. Above all, it should guard against giving instruction of a too recondite nature, too little adapted to practical things...