Word: casually
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...article. The writer is so evidently behind the times, and his spiteful motive is so thinly disguised, that it would hardly be worth while to reply to him if he had not manipulated the figures from the catalogue in such a way as easily to mislead the casual reader. What his letter is worth as intelligent criticism may be shown by his glaring mistakes in saying: "C. J. was and still is the Register of the Faculty;" the Everett "Athenaeum is the rival of the Institute. it flourishes and attracts many of the men;" and other equally evident blunders...
That Carlyle ever came to be a disciple to Goethe has appeared strange to many for they seemed to the casual observer to be widely separated; Goethe was a patrician, the favorite of a count, whileCarlyle was more a plebeian. The most serious obstacle to Carlyle's worshipping Goethe, was found not in the writings of Goethe but in Goethe's life itself...
...words from the epistle to the Galatians, "Your life is hid with Christ in God." He said that Christ's whole life was bound up in his thoughts of God rather than in his work with His disciples. His perfect sympathy had behind. It something not revealed to the casual observer, for there is often a modesty of holiness, a concealment of virtue which, more than the open avowal of sanctity, is pleasing to God. We should cultivate a reverence for quiet honesty, for the different phases of heroism the heroism of poverty, of those noble students who offer upon...
...casual student of United States history, Jefferson appears to be an advocate of republican theories, the leader of the states-rights party, the third republican president. But to the student who searches more deeply into the annals of American history, who looks carefully into the chronicles and letters of the revolutionary period, Jefferson's life is more that of a farmer and a country gentleman, than of the politician. From his boyhood up he exhibited a fondness for nature, for horses of all sorts, etc. Like Webster, too, he was fond of hunting and fishing, and in the season, Monticello...