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...corrected Thomas Jefferson's rhetorical Declaration of Independence, went to France as Commissioner, crowned his career by persuading France to recognize U.S. independence (March 20, 1778). In France he became the rage, his plain, shrewd honesty a cult. Turgot wrote a verse about him: Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis-"He has snatched from heaven the thunderbolt and the scepter from tyrants." Ladies kissed him. Said he: "Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embraced, that is to have their Necks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Kelley '06; "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus", by C. T. Ryder '06; "And She I Love so well Is Dead", by H. Spencer Sp.; "Serge Witte", the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize poem for 1906, by R. E. Rogers '09; "Song of Fra Basilio", by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "De Coelo", by J. H. Wheelock '08; "Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native'", by W. L. Stoddard '07; "Shalott", by C. H. Dickerman '07; "Malcolm", by c. H. Dickerman '07; "Malcolm", by r. Altrocchi '08; "Freshmania", by M. Wertheim '06; "The Stadium", by C. T. Ryder '06; Editorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contents of June Monthly | 6/1/1906 | See Source »

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