Word: mereness
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...calls forth an effort of the mind that might be better applied to something more valuable and of more literary worth. Detached passages are given whose few paragraphs in no wise represent a connected thought or anything in particular. No good or pleasure results; the process degenerates into a mere effort of memory, and the mind soon relinquishes its hold of what was learned with so little interest. Let any one take the selections given to be committed in our French courses and he will readily see how profitless they are, and how far from serving as representative passages...
...almost every one is dissatisfied with the result accomplished on an examination paper, or with the mark returned, there is usually no method of finding out in what one was right or wrong. This is especially true of those more indefinite subjects in which mental reasoning, and not the mere effort of memory, enters largely into the consideration of work done. But when a man reads his book over to his professor, he seizes that opportunity of personal intercourse by which he may gain a definite idea of how well or how badly he has done in the examination. Many...
...turn the doorknob; so he stood outside and looked through the glass into the warm room, rapping once or twice to draw the attention of its inmates. No one paid the slightest attention to his signals: perhaps they were not heard, for he was a little fellow, a mere baby to be out at such a time. Besides, everybody in the store was looking the other way, apparently listening to Captain Peregrine Batt, who, to judge from his gestures, was narrating a story of breathless interest Nahum Metcalf, the storekeeper, had forgotten his only customer in the interest...
...vigorous youth, the others prattlers mere...
...whispered Tue passionately, and fled. Her brain was in a tumult. Joy, passion, hope, foreboding, were mingled in a chaotic mass of thought. But as she approached her father's hut she could think more clearly. What had she done? She had expressed her preference for a mere stranger; one of whose very name she was ignorant. In vain she assured herself that his conduct at the glen proved him good and noble. "A single act is no basis for determining character," her judgment replied; "it may be quite in keeping with the actor's character; it may be merely...