Word: age
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Miss Jackson had come to England to visit her aunt, Salvation Rogers. Aunt Salvation - called Salvy by her intimate friends - had had the misfortune to be born in Bangor. No one, however, was more ashamed of this fact than she herself. At the age of ten she had come to England, and had lived there ever since. She had never married; she had tried hard to become an English-woman, and had succeeded to a certain extent; but her birth was against...
...burning questions of his time, and whatever he said, he said well. But the peculiar value of his writings for young men is his intense earnestness, his sincerity. He may well be called the apostle of sincerity. With Carlyle was carried to the grave the patriarch of a new age, - an age of activity, not of morbid self-consciousness; of sincerity, not of ceremony. He renounced the faith which only babbles after what another said, which repeats without reflection; he first taught men to look into the great Book for themselves, and see whether there be any voice in nature...
...much for the poetry, from which its columns are however, mainly free; but the Nassau Lit. publishes verses execrably and intolerably bad . . . The 'Varsity, of Toronto, is one of our newer papers; and, if it shows no traces of youthful faults, certainly is free from the weaknesses of age. . . Of the Argus (Wesleyan), we say nothing, because, as of the Trinity Tablet, there is nothing to say, good...
...find in clerkly hand his age...
...age was eighty...