Word: chisel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...department which makes a man preeminent in that department. Certainly no man has been more suggestive than Emerson. Moreover we Americans ought not to like to see Emerson's intellectual proportions measured by a British foot-rule, or to see his literary reputation hacked by a British cold-chisel, even in the hands of the great apostle of "sweetness and light...