Word: teach
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry...
...crossed my mind; would they not need a guide? Doubtless! I would offer my services. I wished that I was better posted in the history of the College; but I could easily fill up the gaps by a little invention besides, the breeze laden with sweet-scented hay would teach me eloquence. I drew nearer to the party...
...finds his thoughts distracted and wandering away from the subject, which should absorb his whole attention. Instead of brief, simple, terse statements, easily grasped and understood, we have attempts at profound, high-sounding expositions, whose object is to exhibit the learning of the author or utterer, rather than to teach the reader or hearer. Trite sayings, which might be found endurable when succinctly stated, are spun out into a labyrinth of empty phrases, and shallow ideas are harped upon through infinite paragraphs, to give them an importance which they do not deserve...
Sent his son for me to teach...
...FRANCIS P. KNIGHT, an old resident of China and one of the Chinese Commissioners to the Philadelphia Exhibition, has collected $10,000 to support for three years two Chinese instructors at Harvard College, who are to teach young men the Chinese language, so as to fit them for positions in China, either under the government or as business agents. He will select two Chinese gentlemen as teachers. - New York Evening Post...