Word: blackwoods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Greek"; second, the popular impression that Keats was unmanly and effeminate; and third, the doubt expressed by some critics as to whether Keats would have advanced greatly in his art. Keats was in certain ways a Greek in spirit but undoubtedly a romantic in form. As to his weakness, Blackwood's "Johnny Keats," the stanza in Don Juan, and even Shelley's Adonais have after their varying fashions given the world a false impression; and George Keats's saying that his brother was about as much like "Johnny Keats" as he was like the Holy Ghost is needed-with...
Best general references: Baden Powell, Truth about Home Rule; Dicey, England's case against Home Rule; Balfour's Speech in London Times, April 22, 1893; Home Rule Bubble in Blackwood's CLIII (March '93); The Bill of Wrongs in Nat. Rev. XXI. 124 (March '93); Nineteenth Cent. XXXIII. 545-559 (April '93); Chamberlain in London Times, April...
...Home Rule would be had for Great Britain. - (a) A federation requires good feeling to be successful: Dicey, Introduction. - (b) The Irish Parliament cannot be trusted to settle the land question, for England is bound in honor to the landlords: Fortn. XLV, 861; Sat. Rev., CLIV 291; Blackwood vol. 139, p. 684. - (c) It would set a bad example...
...idealism an incredible manner of conceiving the world? (J. Collyns Simon's edition of Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge; J. C. Fraser's Berkeley in Blackwood's Philosophical Classics; G. A. Lewes's History of Philosophy, Article Berkeley; Encyclopedia Britannica, Article Idealism...
...then professor at Heidelberg, and afterwards at Berlin, and died in 1831. His "Logic" was published in the years 1812-1816. His works were collected and printed, after his death, in eighteen volumes. In English the best account of his life is that of Edward Caird, in Blackwood's "Philosophical Classics." Of Dr. Hutchinson Sterling's famous and historically important book, "The Secret of Hegel" (2 vols. 8 vo., Edinburgh, 1865), much both good and evil can well be said, but the work is at all events useless to the elementary student. More valuable for a fairly equipped beginner...