Many inquire of me about the lyceum platform as a profession. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
You know we have a system of lyceum-lecturing in our large towns. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
In 1802 he was appointed professor of botany in the new lyceum of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
With a few of the leading young men he formed a young men's lyceum. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
Sunday school and a lyceum, the pleasures of which I can never forget. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
"Oh," said Tas, looking wise, although he hadn't a clue what a lyceum was. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of a Fallen Sun]
Shortly after this, Wilson was squeezed out of the Spiritualist lyceum movement. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School] Reference
For the first two years the lad used to come home from the lyceum for the holidays. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
Through indolence she failed her courses at the lyceum, and was denied Agency status. From Wordnik.com. [Araminta Station]
Wendell Phillips, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who visited the town as lyceum lecturers. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference
Each switch of lyceum seemed to take Wilson on a search for a more progressive approach. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School] Reference
Hiram had often discussed the theatre question, both at the lyceum and on other occasions. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Wilson had long played a significant role in the Spiritualist lyceum system, beginning in 1873. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School] Reference
When at sixteen he was taken to a lyceum he was fragile-looking and pale, strangely quiet and dreamy. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
He opened our lyceum as if it had been an oyster, without any regard for the feelings of those inside. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
The morning was fresh and sunny; autumn was in the air; in a few weeks Glawen would be entering the lyceum. From Wordnik.com. [Araminta Station]
You mean you lived as milky at their lyceum, couard, while you learned, volp volp, to howl yourself wolfwise. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
The informal lyceum, debating society, and later the Chautauqua provided cultural opportunities at varying levels. From Wordnik.com. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference
The royal lyceum, formerly a Jesuit college, contains notable collections and the royal library of over 300,000 volumes. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The ostensible object of the journey was to see her only son, who was just finishing his studies at a Petersburg lyceum. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
I have been told of a parrot belonging to the steward of a lyceum which had heard the words "Come in," when any one rang the bell. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892] Reference
A bitter December evening found me tumbling through snow and ice to accommodate a certain lyceum in one of our Northwestern cities. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
A lyceum bureau once sent me back to my home town to lecture. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Hard Knocks] Reference
Let him attach himself to some respectable lyceum or debating society. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Man's Guide] Reference
His lyceum lectures were shavings from his workshop, as most lectures are. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference
I can't hear a lyceum or debating society mentioned to this day, without feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Blunders of a Bashful Man] Reference
They growl at the lyceum courses and chautauquas, because they "take money outa town.". From Wordnik.com. [The University of Hard Knocks] Reference
In lyceum work, in teaching, in very many lines, they are often useful to introduce a stranger. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Hard Knocks] Reference
I tell him "that either Francis comes to the lyceum or that I go to rejoin him at the hospital.". From Wordnik.com. [Sac-Au-Dos 1907] Reference
Or perhaps he's a lyceum bureau reader, scheduled to give an evening of humorous readings for the. From Wordnik.com. [Roast Beef, Medium] Reference
Educated in a Parisian lyceum, his teachers sometimes had occasion to complain of his want of application. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
I had to go to the mouth of a coal-mine in a little Illinois town, to find the man the bureau had given as lyceum committeeman there. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Hard Knocks] Reference
They are the faithful few who get behind the churches, the schools, the lyceum and chautauqua, and all the other movements that go upward. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Hard Knocks] Reference
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