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AdeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
account
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
all
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
allude
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Amateur
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
AndeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
any
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
appear
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
Aram
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
attention
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
attributed
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
author
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
awful
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Bar
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
beingauxiliary verbUS /ˈbiːɪŋ/
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Bible
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
bill
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
biographical
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From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.
book
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
Booth
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
branch
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
Burns
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
columns
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
comic
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
comments
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
compelled
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
conducted
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
constitute
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
correct
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
correspondent
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
country
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
coursenounUS /course/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
critic
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
critical
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From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.
critics
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
Crossing
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
d'esprit
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
daily
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Dane
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
day
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
death
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
departments
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
derided
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
devotion
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
dialect
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died
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From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.
dissemination
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
doauxiliary verbUS /duː/
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Douglas
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
down
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
drollest
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
Du
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
easily
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
editor
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Edwin
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
engine
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
enthusiast
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
enthusiasts
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entirety
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
Erroneous
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
esteemed
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
Eugene
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
exempted
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
exist
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
experience
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
expose
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
extravagant
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
far-reaching
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
finance
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five
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From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
form
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
forming
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
foundnounUS /found/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
four
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
French
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Gemini
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
George
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
give
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
given
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
Gladstone
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
grievances
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
hilarious
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
horse-racing
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
hotel
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
how
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
hundreds
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
imaginenounUS /ˈimagine/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
imprinted
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
interest
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Irving
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
issue
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
J'écrirai
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Jerrold
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
jeu
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
just
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
labour
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
lamb
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
lands
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
late
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
laughter
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
le
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
legitimate
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
letters
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
list
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
literary
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
local
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Lord
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
making
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
management
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
many
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
Maurier
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
men
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
missionary
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
mistakes
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
moment
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
morality
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
mouth
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Mr
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
MydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
navigation
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
newspaper
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
newspapers
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
Official
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
OurdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
out
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
pay
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
people
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
perhaps
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
philanthropy
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
phrase
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Pilot
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
play
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
poem
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
poems
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poet
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From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.
pointnounUS /pɔɪnt/
the main matter or purpose being discussed
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
pointing
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
presumably
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
printednounUS /printed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
profession
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
proof
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
put
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
questionnounUS /ˈquestion/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
quotation
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
really
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
regarded
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
religion
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
results
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
rightly
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Royal
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
sane
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
sent
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
shorn
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
shouldmodal verbUS /ʃʊd/
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
sincere
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
sincerest
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
sitting
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
sketch
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From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.
Smith
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
soliloquies
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
some
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
spend
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
sphere
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Sterne
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
subject
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
sufficient
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
suggesting
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
suggestions
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
Sydney
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
tempered
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Tennyson
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From this reading When Lord Tennyson died, I printed five columns of a biographical and critical sketch of the great poet.
Tennyson's
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
text
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
there
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
thoughtnounUS /thought/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
thousands
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
Times
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
type
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
up
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
very
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
vexed
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
vexing
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
Virgo
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
voyage
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
WhopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
whompronounUS /huːm/
the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
Why
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
Wife
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
windnounUS /wind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
women
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
work
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From this reading _Our esteemed correspondent--The great imprinted--Lord Tennyson’s death--“Crossing the Bar”--Why was it never printed in its entirety?--The comments on the poem--Who could the Pilot have been?--Pilot or pilot engine?--A vexed and vexing question--Erroneous navigation--Tennyson’s voyage with Mr. Gladstone--Its far-reaching results--Tennyson’s interest in every form of literary work--“My Official Wife”--Amateur critics--The Royal Dane--Edwin Booth and his critic--A really comic play--An Irving enthusiast--“Gemini and Virgo”--“Our sincerest laughter”--The drollest of soliloquies--“Eugene Aram” for the hilarious--The proof of a sincere devotion._
works
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
writing
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From this reading THE people who spend their time writing letters to newspapers pointing out mistakes, or what they imagine to be mistakes, and making many suggestions as to how the newspaper should be conducted in all its departments, constitute a branch of the profession of philanthropy, to which sufficient attention has never been given.
written
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From this reading A book might easily be written by any one who had some experience, not of the letters that appear in a newspaper, but of those that are sent to the editor by enthusiasts on the subject of finance, morality, religion, and the correct text of some of Burns dialect poems.
yesterday's
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
à
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From this reading I do not, of course, allude to the type whom Mr. George Du Maurier derided when he put the phrase _J’écrirai à le Times_ into his mouth on being compelled to pay an extravagant bill at a French hotel; there are people who have just grievances to expose, and there are newspapers that exist for the dissemination of those grievances; but it is an awful thought that at this very moment there are some hundreds--perhaps thousands--of presumably sane men and women sitting down and writing letters to their local newspapers to point out to the management that the jeu d’esprit attributed in yesterday’s issue to Sydney Smith, was one of which Douglas Jerrold was really the author; or that the quotation about the wind being tempered to the shorn lamb is not to be found in the Bible, but in “the works of the late Mr. Sterne”; or perhaps suggesting that no country could rightly be regarded as exempted from the list of lands forming a legitimate sphere for missionary labour, whose newspapers give up four columns daily to an account of the horse-racing of the day before.
