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...fickle and impetuous: he was careless of others: he was vain beyond measure. But he was so open in his likes and dislikes, so frank in thought, and at times so generous, that we must see a certain amount of good in him after all. Boswell is a queer compound of openness, foolishness, and immorality. His whole life may be summed up in the single phrase he used when telling why he was a sceptic: "My scepticism," he wrote, "was not owing to thinking wrong but to not thinking...
...whose will, dry crusts of bread can be turned into a savory pudding, and the debris of fricasseed chicken into a warm and nourishing hash. Instead of the quail on toast or tenderloin steaks for which we had starved ourselves for several days, we were regaled with a strange compound called beef pie, a cousin German of our old enemy beef stew, and the entirely novel expedient of fried mush...
...sciences. Harvard, almost alone among American colleges, has paid attention to this science. As if by magic, one versed in this wonderful science can look through solid rock and tell what lies hidden far within. The tool of the petrographist is a polarizing microscope, that is, an ordinary compound microscope in which two Nicol's prisms of Iceland spar are placed at a certain distance apart...
...Lydia Pinkham, whose name and features are familiar to many newspaper readers as the originator of Lydia Pinkham's compound, died at Lynn on Thursday evening from paralysis...
...foot-ball game on Saturday between '85 and '86, G. Woodbury '86, captain, met with an unfortunate accident, suffering a compound dislocation of a fore-finger...