Word: different
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...London Athenoeum states that the international copyright negotiations between England and the United States have been suspended, because President Arthur's views on the subject differ from those held by Garfield. If this is true, it will be a most unfortunate outcome for the hopes entertained by so many in this direction from Minister Lowell's mission...
...first peculiarity will certainly be appreciated by every Harvard student; if there is anything we do not believe in, it is bigotry. There are some practices that all conscientious men believe to be wrong, but in regard to drinking, perfectly upright men may differ. The friends of the society believe that total abstinence is on the whole the best practice; but they respect the views of those who conscientiously differ, and wish it to be distinctly understood that they have no sympathy whatever with those who ground their belief in total abstinence upon anything but common-sense...
...coddled and patronized this nice young man, but the genuine public has expressed its emphatic disapproval of such proceedings. If Mr. Wilde is sincere (and there are grave and justifiable reasons for doubting this), then all that is to be said is that his ideals of right and beauty differ from those of most men; and that most men will, as usual, resist the imposition of these ideals upon themselves until convinced that they are preferable to those generally held...
...with great regret that we are compelled to differ with our esteemed and sanguinary [con]-temporary in the matter of the New Zolaian Society. But to the most casual observation it is evident that a Chinese pickpocket has an oily pigtail and a glass body. No one who knows anything about the matter will think otherwise. Therefore we are right and our co[n] temporary is wrong, Q. E. D., Ipse dixit." This exhibitorial seemed to make a very favorable impression, and was at once accepted...
...point taken by you, opinions differ. My opinion is that "the duty" of the New Shakspere Society is to mind its own business, that is, to study Shakspere, and do the work it has set itself in its Prospectus; not to gad about interfering in its members' quarrels...