Word: know
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...KNOW'ST thou the hall where many a rafter...
...Know'st thou the feeling - akin to perdition...
...know how grate a shamm...
...seems to have been a trial of strength with lifting-machines, and Eng 6, a test of the capacity of the lungs. Phil 7 was hazardous tight rope walking, Phil 2 a performance upon the flying trapeze, and Phil 3 apparently was a balloon ascension. (This last statement, I know, supposes that balloons were invented at an earlier date than is commonly given; but probably the ascensions so plainly described here were only to a small height and in a captive balloon. Some, however, maintain that this amusement was not a balloon ascension at all but was diving after stones...
...when most of the people in the States accuse us of being conservative snobs, that they come over here and copy these very snobs in loud clothes and detestable habits? Naturally enough, they don't take our nicest people for models; just as we who may not know any first class Parisians, form our opinions of the French nation from what we see of "cabbies" and shop-girls. You see I am trying not to be prejudiced either against you Yankees or for us. I send by this post some Oxford newspapers that may interest you, and remain...