Word: appearance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...resemblance to a beast than you do. And very likely you find yourself in a predicament. You do not know whether to hold to your old prejudices and keep away from the degraded sinners, or to waive these prejudices altogether and take part in the bacchanalian festivities which they appear to enjoy...
...when my creditors appear...
...DEAR JACK, - Your answer to my last letter is very natural. You say that I am inconsistent; that, while urging you to appear to be a rich man, I have furnished your room in such a manner that, to say the least, it is not superior to those of many of your classmates; and you wind up with a glowing description of the Eastlake glories of the furniture of that eminent Freshman, Smith. In your discontent with the commonplace character of your household gods, you have forgotten one of my express recommendations, - to avoid extravagance; and you have forgotten another...
...that of ordinary mortals, - it is in regard to the streets. Next he laments (as Dr. Holmes did only last year) "that the scheme of forming public squares should have been almost universally forgotten." The houses he calls "superior to those of every American city," and says they "appear with peculiar advantage on Mount Vernon (which used to be called Beacon Hill)." He characterizes the people as being "noted for intelligence, love of liberty, generosity, and civility." They are, he says, "distinguished by a lively imagination, having characters more resembling that of the Greeks than that of the Romans"; "from...
...account of Boston ends with some reflections on fashionable education; children, he deplores, are taught that "what they are is of little consequence, but what they appear to-be is of importance inestimable." Young men read novels, and the "sight of a classic author gives them a chill, a lesson in Locke or Euclid a mental ague." Young ladies "sink down to songs, novels, and plays." The reverend President is particularly severe towards the young ladies, and solemnly warns them that "between the Bible and novels there is a gulf fixed which few novel-readers are willing to pass...