Word: oughtness
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...some book on etiquette it is laid down as a canon that one ought never to invite to a dinner-party gentlemen of only one profession. If there are none but clergymen present, conversation will turn on theology; if lawyers make up the party, their chat will be of a professional character; and if the dry-goods business is the only one represented, it is safe to say the guests will talk "shop...
...eyes are large and lustrous, and the complexion like alabaster. In fact, we should prefer to see a few freckles, if only to show that she is but "an earthly paragon," and no angel. If the scene is to be laid on this earth, then even the heroine ought to be endowed with a few of our imperfections, for through them her character appeals most strongly to the reader. If he has not her good qualities, he at least wants to sympathize with her shortcomings. In novel-reading our pleasure is confined wholly to the finite. If any future author...
...stringed instruments, prayer by the class-chaplain followed, and then the orator was introduced. His theme was the connection between education and agriculture, and he proved conclusively, to himself at least, that the prosperity of a country depends upon the farmers, and that the cultivation of the soil ought to go hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind. He did not close without censuring the corruption of the times. The children of the so-called old families, he said, inherit more vices than virtues, and he wished to have it clearly understood that while some more favored collegians...
...when first made was so feeble (seven only complying with it) that it was not thought advisable to carry out the plan. But should a sufficient number apply to make this worth while, there would be opened to the students who take the Fine Arts Electives some advantages that ought not to be rejected...
...truth is, men are hanging back to see who their antagonists are going to be. This is, of course, nonsense; if a man is capable of entering into an athletic contest at all, he ought not to be afraid to have it known that he considers himself a fair match for any other man of the same weight who may happen to be his opponent. We understand the feeling that prompts this procrastination, but cannot do otherwise than condemn it; somebody must make the first advances, and so long as a man has made up his mind to spar...