Word: outness
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"When Charles Lamb complained of the decay of beggers in the metropolis, he was surely thinking more of those who appeal for charity in the streets than of those who haunt the doors of our lodgings. These latter are the ones who besiege us, and nuisances they are. If I...
"Every tax is so contributed as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the room occupants as little as possible over and above what it brings into the contribution-box of the room.
I looked, and turned out of the window
EVERY year, or, at the most, every five years, witnesses the rise and fall of a popular poet. His coming is as certain as that of a financial panic, rather more frequent, and, in its way, almost as disastrous; but, though his end is often pitiable, he enjoys, for a...
The object of the present writing is not, however, to point out the faults, but rather the present status and prospects of the society, which warrant the most flattering hopes for its future.