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...succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again satirizes their ignorance, and also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally a French fashion is plain enough in the word itself-first corrupted from perruque to periwig, and then contracted for convenience to wig. Chouse, in the sense of to cheat, carries us back to the days of James First, when an impostor palmed himself off upon the people of London as a Turkish ambassador...
...ever-surging, yet bridled, excitement in the poet, giving a special intensity to his way of delivering himself. In poetical races and epochs this turn for style is peculiarly observable; and perhaps it is only on condition of having this somewhat heightened and difficult manner, so different from the plain manner of prose, that poetry gets the privilege of being loosed, at its best moments, into that perfectly simple, limpid style, which is the supreme style of all, but the simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose. The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity...
...been used; and, further, to have an increased number of waiters behind the screens to distribute the food. The first of these plans has been tried at the general tables with good result, and the second would obviate a large amount of lost time. Indeed, it is quite plain that, at crowded hours, more time is spent by a waiter in obtaining food than in carrying it to his table...
...good, and will furnish a satisfactory view of the play. The undersirable seats, those in the end sections of the balcony and the gallery, will not be used. With this arrangement we believe undergraduates will be content. To yield the most desirable seats is, under the circumstances, the plain bidding of courtesy...
...statement in regard to the Law School made by the Dean brings out more clearly still the line of development upon which the school is moving. It has been made plain to us all before that to raise the standard must increase the permanent, as against the transitory, welfare of the school. Reputation for ability of graduates and not notoriety for number of students is always to be sought...