Word: likely
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...fire-flies, like lost stars, like Pleiades...
...like youth, in oblivion slip...
MANY warnings have failed to convince the careless student that it is no longer safe to live aperlo domo. Three years ago the burglaries were indeed few in number, but, like the murders which De Quincey has celebrated, of so artistic a character that they could not fail to command the respect of all true lovers of the aesthetic. Windows furnished the favorite mode of entrance and exit, daylight or darkness suited the interlopers, and, in one instance at least, a hand-to-hand fight settled the ownership of valuable articles of clothing. The next year we dwelt in greater...
...Clara College, differs in many respects from the other exchanges of the Magenta. We have before us the September number, and, as some of the articles read like the productions of very youthful writers, we must be careful to treat it gently...
...time, and are greatly chagrined at the result. You wish to give the charge intrusted you a Christian character? By all means; there is abundant room for such. But do not persuade yourselves that it can be made strong enough to endure the battle of life, by training it like the young vine, shielding it from every temptation and every danger. When temptation and danger do come in early manhood, sudden and powerful as they will, self-reliance and a knowledge of good and evil must be present or the structure, so carefully reared, falls. I cannot blame...