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...ministry may have charms for me. In either case, dead Latin and Greek are better than living English, German, and French to inspire me for future work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...press of business prevents us from ever completing. One of the most hybrid and unsatisfactory of these - to take an instance - is our short o, as in hot. It is quite interesting to speculate as to what the full sound can be which is swallowed before uttered in this case: is it a bark, a whoop, or a growl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH VOWEL-SOUNDS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

Fire-escapes placed at each end of the building would afford a ready exit in case of fire, and are, we think, an imperative necessity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

This being the case, he will find that walking offers nearly all to be desired. Not the aimless saunter, but the brisk energetic pace of the man who is in earnest in business or pleasure. It was thus that Dickens walked and performed, for half a century, the most laborious literary work. Thus Tyndall has become a famous mountain-climber, and in his admirable volumes gives us the result of toilsome hours in the laboratory along with the enlivening stories of his Alpine experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALKING. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...others. On the contrary, the chest is one of the parts most benefited, and by the quickly succeeding contractions and expansions necessary to sustain a rapid gait, the lungs are constantly receiving fresh invoices of purer air than any indoor exercise will admit of. We know of a case where a young man who had lost his voice so as to be unable to speak above a whisper entirely regained it by a walk to Boston from a town in the western part of the State, taking a week for the journey. The bracing oxygen of a crisp morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALKING. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »