Word: effort
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...effort ebbs and flows...
...hear that initiatory steps have been taken in Boston for the formation of an Alpine Club, whose central field of labor will be the White Mountains. Among the benefits to be derived from organized effort, it was suggested that much might be done in determining the altitudes and positions of various mountains, ascertaining facts relating to the animals and fauna of the high regions, in tracing glacial action, in arriving at some definite results in regard to the nomenclature of mountains where the same eminences were known by different names or one or more mountains by the same name...
...those that can't stand it; but they are going to put me through at all risks." I was roused from my stupor by silent attendant's shaking me, and pointing to a door. Tried to go through the door, but backed out instantly. After another effort, succeeded, and found myself again in a chair; thermometer here was 30 higher, - 160 in the shade...
...homely in the presence of the philosophy heretofore paraded. I mean the wealth of our College, its size, and neighborhood to a centre of social, dramatic, and musical attractions. Is it far to seek that men with affinities of this description become indolent of thought and incapable of sustained effort? They do not labor up the Mountain because they choose to entertain themselves with dulcimer and harp in the valley below...
...constant warfare with the received optimism. I might quote the extraordinary activity of the German Schopenhauer; and as to the general futility of any philosophical theory in stopping the processes of thought, the name of Spinoza is instructive as a believer in the doctrine, of all others, to stop effort, - I refer to the theory of Universal Necessity. I should, however, scarce think of seriously refuting such ludicrous reasoning as the writer in the last Advocate indulges himself in upon this subject, but subjoin it as a specimen of the inaccurate and hasty writing of that martinet in logic: "Such...