Word: confession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...know Sarah Barnhardt is to confess yourself unknown, and not to go to see this brilliant French actress and contortionist is to miss a most delicious dramatic feast. Verbum sapis...
...sake of candor I must confess there are all gradations between these extremes. But others beside myself have noticed that many of the examinations this year are of the kind in which we are bothered in some way that ought to be avoided...
...sixth century of the Hegira and of Omar of Naishapur, the Tent-maker or Khayaw "as men style him all over the world." It is capitally written and is a thoroughly consistent development along one line. Yet, while grauting the article due praise as an achievement, one must confess that it is rather heavy and involved-a defect inseparable perhaps from a consistent treatment...
Ought they not rather, simply in justice to themselves, immediately to avow their guilt, to confess their shame (their hearts by this time are full of it), to assume all charges, and then, with fit apology, to bear in a manly way any punishment that may be imposed...
...Hand-Organ Music: A Reverie," is an honest avowal of a fondness for hand-organ music, faintly heard at a distance, a fondness that more than one of us feels, but which we are either too insincere or too conceited to confess. The essay is light and attractive...