Word: referse
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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Happiness, therefore, - such, at least, as this author refers to, - is not to be obtained. Is there anything, then, to save us from utter misery? Let me quote once more from Carlyle.
After dinner I sit down by a mast and study Herbert Spencer on Style. (N. B. I was conditioned in Rhetoric.) Presently a very common-looking man shouts out, "Stand by to hoist that Spencer." Thinking he refers to my book, I secrete it in my coat-pocket. Several sailors...