Word: proverb
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Would Miss L. give me the pleasure of her company? Animated silence! This I translated with the help of the old proverb, as follows: of course Miss L. is only too happy to do anything rather than serve as one of those botanical specimens that on such occasions adorn the drawing-room; and it was but natural that, in the prospect of an evening with myself, a Harvard Senior, for partner, her emotions should quite overpower her utterance...
...heard the proverb old which says...
...BRETHREN: These old familiar strains have set us in easy motion. The Spaniards have a proverb that 'leaving home is half the journey,' so much do they make of the start. But you are already on the threshold, and Harvard pilgrims, like those of Canterbury of long centuries ago, are quick to entertain themselves. Different men find many different attractions in a time like this, but I think we shall all of us agree that one of them, at least, is its evenness. The scales, elsewhere ascending and descending with great abruptness, here come to a quiet poise...
...same in Greek!" I cried, altering the proverb to suit her aesthetic...
...UNTO him that hath shall be given" is a proverb of worldly, as well as heavenly, wisdom. There is a building belonging to the College, which is provided with two fire-escapes on the back, and iron balconies which can easily be connected on the front. Why Holyoke, being so well provided, should now have a new iron staircase, while the other College buildings have no protection, is an insoluble conundrum. Holyoke is a particularly dangerous building in case of fire, because of the number of "wells" which it contains. But Weld and Matthews both have elevator "wells," up which...