Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...They contain a mint of information, and show the many-sidedness of Mr. Story's intellect; he is as much at home with the Greek drama as with the English poet, with history as with philosophy, with mesmerism as with criticism. He quotes frequently and aptly from well known authors from all ages, from Cicero and Appollodorus, from Schiller and Goethe, from Coleridge and Wordsworth. The sixth conversation is by far the most interesting as it gives us Mr. Story's idea of true art and shows that he does not believe with ruskin that a perfect reproduction...
Turning to Arnold's writings on the Bible, the speaker said that the reception of "Literature and Dogma" was the old story of Faust and Marguerite over again. The book was one which would never make converts, but which would strengthen and delight those inclined to think with its author...
Edward Bellamy, the author of "Looking Backward," will contribute to the March number of the North American Review a reply to General Francis A. Walker's criticism of his theories in the February Atlantic...
...book there is an appendix giving a summary of the tariff schedule of the United States. Professor MacVane's system, as is proper in a book of such moderate size, is to state all laws and arguments clearly and with justice to each side without intimation of the author's private opinion. For in stance, in the chapter on Free Trade, the principles are enumerated, after which follows a simple statement of the arguments brought up by the Protectionists in favor of the present tariff system in favor of the present tariff system in the United States. This is followed...
...moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great and noble men without a knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey. "A beautiful mirror of human life at its best," says some one of the Odyssey, and surely no better epithet can be applied to the great author than that which Hallam applied to Shakespeare, "thousand-souled," the thousand-souled Homer...