Word: descending
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American patriots revolted from England, but it had been overlooked that it was by party organization alone that the patriots were enabled to carry out their purpose. Washington assembled an army, he did not tell every man to take his musket and fight independently. If the independents would descend from the heights of sentiment and enter vigorously into the life of some party, their work would be of much more merit...
...show that as a rule dancing is a sure sign of frivolity; he finally quotes the rather cynical advice "If you dance well, dance seldom; if you do not dance well, do not dance at all." Speaking of the vanities of animals the author says, "The lower we descend in animal life, the more of a coxcomb does the male become." He then gives a detailed and interesting account of our bird dancers, chief among which are the members of the goose family. 'Sport with Canada Geese" is very good. "Miss Caruther's Partner is interesting though not a novel...
...rise entirely out of one's self. Sometimes it is due to a great sorrow, sometimes to a great joy. Such a feeling occurs so seldom that men smile when it is referred to: but I pity the man who has never felt this divine emotion. However, one must descend to earth to accomplish anything, and one must have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm carries respect with it. However much we laugh at Henry George and his schemes for abolishing poverty, at General Booth and his plan for helping the poor of England, this enthusiasm compels us to listen to them. But enthusiasm...