Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these sketches Mr. Beal has shown that he has a true artist's instinct, he knows a picture when he sees it, and he has been most happy in his rendering of the chosen themes. The set is published by L. Prang and Co. and sold at $1.50. It is a series of exquisite holiday pictures that ought to prove attractive to all who care for old Cambridge and good...
...walk is about all there is left. It is cruelty to compel him to do work which he loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there are those to whom proficiency in games is an instinct, and the gaudium certaminis a stimulant-almost an intoxicating one. To advise these men to take sober walks that they may avoid over-exertion and broken bones, is an absurdity, but they may accept and profit by advice as to how best to develop their powers. Still, to these...
...evils of introducing the professional element into amateur athletics are so great - they are so obvious to those who have dipped into matters of the kind without losing their faculty of criticism in the enthusiasm natural to the pursuit - that the first, the healthful instinct is to cry, Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial...
...Mendelsohn's "Hymn of Praise." Dr. Gordon read a few verses from the first chapter of Second Corinthians. He chose as his text the therein occurring expression, "Sincerity to God." "Sincerity, unlike many other virtues, is a quality for the appreciation of which no cultivation is necessary. A natural instinct calls out for it. Just as a famous singer like Jenny Lind has some songs which appeal only to the musically educated, but at the same time others which go to the heart of everybody. Sincerity is transparency to a higher light; that as a vase, when held against...
...Scribner's Magazine" for March will contain a vigorous and thoughtful paper from the pen of Prof. William James, with the title, "What is an Instinct?" in which he discusses especially the instincts of man, their nature and the laws which govern them...