Word: continental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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His passionate sympathy with his own time won the Continent to him, while his artistic defects turned England aside. Examined critically Byron's verse is full of flaws, but has above all other verse of this century the force lent by passion. He was a passionate foe of cant.
"The argument which in the end determined my allegiance was this: The apparent and probably true ideal of the Southern people was the maintenance of States' rights. With this desire I was in sympathy; but, granting that the South should win its independence, it was evident that the Northern and...
The Story of Our Continent; a Reader in the Geography and Geology of North America for the Use of Schools, is the title o one of Professor Shaler's two new books. It is by no means an uninstructive book for any student, although meant especially for schools It is...
["The Story of Our Continent," By N. S. Shaler. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1891.]
To the isolation of the British on this continent between the coast on the east and the practically impassable Appalachians on the west may be attributed the great development of maritime pursuits. As these barriers have been broken down by modern methods, and new fields thrown open, commerce has been...