Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...inspired a man to indite odes to his mother-in-law, and almost as rarely does the gentle muse of poetry venture over into the stern and barren fields of philosophy. It has been said that Locke only needed rhyme to become a poet. We submit respectfully to the author the propriety of turning his work into a metrical form. To revel in a lyric on the "Complex Modes of Extension or Duration and Expansion as measured by Number"! His metaphors are abundant, and show that he had a constant struggle to keep his poetical nature in restraint. His comparison...
...BRADFORD, Asst. Treasurer.MESSRS. A. and C. Black, of Edinburgh, have in press, for immediate publication, a complete edition of the works of E. A. Poe. This collection will appear in four monthly parts, containing many new pieces, and will endeavor to place this eccentric author in a more favorable light...
...ordinary lifetime, and, reaching it, be satisfied. One word, in the preceding, is ambiguous, "happiness"; but it is not necessary to enter into the discussion whether duty is a motive as distinct from the desire for pleasure, for it is easy to see from his article that the author makes a wide distinction between duty and pleasure, and considers happiness the result of the latter alone, which is very wise, if we recognize something higher and more to be desired than happiness in this narrow sense, but not so wise when we find that what the author means is that...
...here the author justifies a true use of the word "teleology," opposing an utter denial of final causes, as he has already censured those who regard everything merely as an end. Both views are true when taken together; the relation of one part of the universe to another is that of the parts of a great painting which are true in themselves, but lack something unless united. Upon this view rests the belief in the "ideal element which is the life of all things," and which, "taking up into itself all the results of our analysis, assumes a grandeur...
Much also can be said concerning the manner of reading. Strict attention and a kindly feeling toward the author enhance our interest in a book otherwise unattractive; while a cynical and faultfinding person can never be thoroughly entertained...