Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...system of weights and measures; to classify two hundred men and say not only that this one knows more than another, but that he knows just so much more, is to claim that the human intellect is capable of making an infinitely fine distinction. It is no wonder therefore that those who arrange for us such matters as marks, degrees, etc., have called something to their aid which is perfectly definite. It is easy to say that this man has given so many hours to this subject while another has devoted to the same thing either half the time...
...drop in a moment upon that remarkable native of the classic land of Greece, Professor Sophocles, whose worthy timeworn face is surrounded with a monstrous pile of snow-white hair, and who advances toward you with such a looseness of manner and dreamy intelligence of expression, that you wonder whether the veritable old Greek poet and the more modern Rip Van Winkle have not in some strange manner been merged into one, and are standing before you." He goes into English I. and hears "the learned comments of the fat professor"; does up Memorial Hall, and departs, to criticise other...
...Wonder and that delight which comes from truth...
...WONDER if anybody nowadays reads Pascal's Provincial Letters? Much comfort may be drawn therefrom for the worldly-minded. Here the writer of other men's themes finds spiritual comfort, nor is any one so gifted with a talent for lying that he may not here find a sufficient excuse. I mean, of course, in the arguments of the Jesuits therein quoted, which are certainly irrefragable, unless you choose to believe the contrary...
...spite of the amount of weight he must carry in his shoes, in spite of his ungainly gait, and in spite of the lead and better position Augustus had at the start, - in spite of all these, - will be more than even with him, and I should not wonder if Augustus were "nowhere" on the home-stretch...