Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"From a pretty careful examination of this volume we are inclined to think it one of the best brief accounts of our constitutional system that have been published. It has the sort of merit that is usually found in the comments of a competent foreign observer upon the institutions of...
It is because so great a part of the book is written in a narrative form, also, that there is only now and then occasion for anything more than the plain, straightforward, vigorous style than counts for so much in the admirableness of the whole work; but when there is...
"The Advocate" appeared on Saturday and contains much good reading matter. "Auf Widersehen" is a well-turned translation of Heine's lovely poem. "The Morality of Tom Jones" makes one or two good points but is not very much of a literary production. Considerable skill is shown in the treatment...
He followed the bill from the estimates of the engineers and the Secretary of War through the committee on rivers and harbors, and then into the House. He described the debate and the filibustering, and the trick by which the bill passed without amendment. It was largely increased in the...
Mr. Green followed for the affirmative. England has a choice between a measure of coercion, and a policy of much milder character. The latter would not prevent crime, or prove of any use whatever. Coercion is absolutely necessary. The present bill is neither unjust, nor unnecessarily harsh in its provisions...