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...England as staymaker, sailor, schoolmaster, excise officer, husband, no man could have predicted the extent of the fame or the abuse that awaited him. Ranked by his contemporaries with Washington and Jefferson, he lived to see popular opinion of himself summed up by his onetime enemy, Journalist William Cobbett: "Men will learn to express all that is base, malignant, treacherous, unnatural, and blasphemous by one single monosyllable-Paine." Mothers threatened their young, "If you're not good. Tom Paine will get you." A century later Theodore Roosevelt testified that officially it was still open season on Paine when...
...disappearance from political life of all individual wills which were too strong, which could not yield to the desires of the masses." So he attacked Washington, vilified him to a fare-ye-well. Naturally Benny's enemies were legion. His rival journalist in Philadelphia, William Cobbett, expressed the settled opinion of the day when he called him "Printer to the French Directory, Distributor General of the principles of Insurrection, Anarchy and Confusion, the greatest of fools, and the most stubborn sans-culotte in the United States." He was attacked on the street, denounced as a spy, his printshop windows...
...Cobbett and Carlyle," Professor Brinton, Harvard...
...Philistine of genius. So Luther's sincere idiomatic German,- such language as this: "Hilf lieber Gott, wie manchen Jammer habe ich gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts Weiss von der christlichen Lehre:"- no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic. Power of style, properly so called, as manifested in masters of style like Dante or Milton in poetry, Cicero, Bossuet, or Holingbroke in prose, is something quite different, and has, as I have said, for its characteristic effect, this: to add dignity and distinction...
...Houston, 1. Two-base hits, Hallowell. Three-base hits, Cook, Howe, Hovey, Frothingham, Corbett. Home run, Mason. Stolen bases, Frothingham, Corbett, Leary, Quarmley (2), Casey. First base on balls, Mason, Corbett, Leary (2), Hood, Murray. First base on errors, Harvard 4, Thomson-Houston, 1. Struck out, Cobb, Casey (2), Cobbett, Gould (3), Leary, Weeman, Murray, Sullivan, Hood. Double plays, Frothingham and Cook. Wild pitches, Howe (2). Time 1 h. 40 min. Umpires, Reynolds, Lynn; Bowen, Newton...