Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sane and sure a judge. Ruskin has been accused of inconsistency only because he has made us partakers of his separate processes of study instead of waiting till he could give us the precipitate of assured wisdom which would deposit itself from the combination of all. Perhaps a certain amount of such inconsistency is inevitable in a mind like his. He is the Demosthenes of criticism, who always has a client to defend or a criminal to attack, and he is perfectly right in saying that he is never illogical, if by that he means that his individual syllogisms...
...common belief among a certain class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...
...Copeland lectured last evening on "Certain Contemporary Novelists," choosing Howells, Blackmore and George Meredith as examples...
...Lorna Doone we have a book which charms us all at first reading but which we would not care to read through a second time. It is beautiful but to a certain extent dull...
Lecture. Certain Contemporary Novelists. Mr. Copeland. Sever...