Word: sagely
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...retract the insult to that great novelist, saying that to slander his (F.'s) friend was to slander him (F.). The discussion was finally ended by the chairman's remarking that he wanted the money for building an L to the Concord school; and then he called upon the Sage of that place to explain the object of the present meeting. The Sage explained, and then was asked to explain his explanation...
...nature is art otherwhere," declared the Sage. "Man has found this inextricably true. It is the omnipresence of the Over-soul, the gauge of the hereafter. And there is no other. Wherefore let us wait...
From that encircling mire. "Back, sage," I cried...
...meaning of this change. The sage replied...
...SCRIPTURAL Senior comes down repeating half mournfully, half reproachfully: 'O Sage. O Sage, thou that crusheth the Junior and aweth the Fresh, how oft would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.' A conscience some what seared suggests, 'Was, nimmer?' And the laboring spirit answers, 'Not since the matron came.' - Cornell...