Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they do not begin to sum up in their pages all the philosophical thought of Eighteenth Century England. Their importance is beyond question, but could one get anything like a complete picture of that era without some consideration of Addison, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Adam Smith? Man has always expressed his noblest thoughts in the noblest literature of which he was capable; for several hundred years he has been equally careful to preserve for posterity a record of his intimate life, his amusements and his ambitions in the form of letters and journals. These records help...
...Chicago a pair of twins were christened Adam...
...ADAM'S RIB - An expensive, elaborate hash of cavemen, foreign revolutions, ex-kings, the Chicago wheat-pit in a state of acute neurasthenia, flappers, wayward mothers, and hokum...
...When Adam delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman" was thought of, is the most distinguished on earth...
...also several fine Schongauers, and a number of prints by the greatest German master, Durer. Among the latter are woodcuts from the great series--the Apocalypse, Great Passion and Small passion--one of his six etchings, one of his four dry-points, and a number of the copper-plate: Adam and Eve, St. Terome in his Cell, Nelancholia and the Knight, Death and the Devil...