Word: domain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...becoming more and more the fashion for play wrights to publish their works in book form, and thus to protest against being regarded as outside the domain of pure literature. Mr. Pinero and Mr. Henry Arthur Jones have already vindicated their claims, and the latest comer to their ranks is Mr. ComynsCarr in his play, King Arthur, just published by Macmillan and Co. An additional interest centres about this play from the fact that it is one of Henry Irving's favorites and it being produced with the utmost success in his present American tour...
...ELLIOTT and S. W. PHILLIPS.Best general references: Statement of Maj. Powell, House Ex. Doc. 51st Cong. 2nd Sess. (1890-91) No. 15; H. M. Wilson, Irrigation in India, House Ex. Doc. 52nd Cong. 1st Sess. (1891-92) No. 18; J. W. Irwin, A great Domain by Irrigation in Forum XII, 740 (Sept. 1891); Reports of Secs. of the Interior, House Ex. Docs. 51st Cong. 1st Sess. (1889-90) No. 13, and 51st Cong. 2nd Sess...
...Indirect taxes are preferable to an Income Tax in the U. S. - (a) Income Tax unsuited for U. S. - (1) Poor Civil Service: J. A. Hill in Quarterly Journal of Economics, VIII, 92 (Oct. 1893). - (2) Unstable incomes. - (b) National government should not interfere in the domain of State and Municipal taxation: Public Opinion...
...have long ago lost my sight, but I love to sit here and recall it, and think that it is all there." It lies in our own choice with what pictures we may fill our minds, whether our inward eye shall command noble prospects over the whole domain of human thoughts, or shall be bounded by the narrow alley of a merely utilitarian training...
...limits, and permitting little real play to diversities of intelectual interest,- has become what it now is through the wise and courageous policy, which assumed great risks in order to widen the field of study on every side, to multiply courses and instructors in every part of the broad domain of modern inquiry, to promote in each department, without regard to traditional rules, the methods of study and teaching found best for that department, and at last to obliterate nearly every relic of a required curriculum, and give to all study in Harvard College the essential characters of a freely...