Word: presentatives
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...morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present, - I am rising to the work of a human being. .... Have I been made for this, to lie in the bedclothes and keep myself warm? But this is more pleasant. Dost thou exist, then, to take thy pleasure, and not at all for action or exertion...
...beaten track of tourists, and describes more his own impressions of what he saw, than the places and objects themselves. It makes, however, an interesting volume, written generally in a lively and entertaining style. The fault in the style seems to us the constant use of the present tense, which in short narratives adds life, but continued in a book of over three hundred pages produces the effect of sweetness "long drawn...
...catalogue for 1876-77 made its appearance on Wednesday evening with its usual amount of valuable information. It is printed more closely than former catalogues, and some of the changes in form are hardly improvements. Compared with former years the present showing is a good one. The undergraduate department has been made up, during the last four years, as follows...
...unconscious of the presence of noisy Freshmen and noisier Sophomores, as I gave myself up to the delights of a tete-a-tete with a tall glass of foamy beer; and, thinking myself back to many social evenings spent in the same hospitable apartment, and not unmindful of my present solitary condition, I fell into one of those trains of reflection that not unnaturally come to a white-haired Senior...
...this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been no one present to share my laugh, have considered it in the least amusing that my liberality had been followed by an effect so different from the one intended...