Word: downe
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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When sorrow weighs our spirits down like lead;
PERHAPS there is no saying more fitted for Americans than this. We are likely to mistake bustle for business, precipitation for progress. In her struggle for equality with nations that have had the maturity of centuries, America has partially lost sight of the dignity which is one of their leading...
Every mind and every body has its maximum of energy; up to this point one can go with impunity, but to attempt further advance is to fail. As the machine lasts in proportion to the use or abuse of it, and as its power depends partly upon the care taken...
The rain beats down in torrents,
Those of us who think must therefore admit that Harvard leans towards infidelity. The Professors are much to blame for this. True, they do not directly inculcate bad principles. They are too wily to do that. They prefer to accomplish their end, in a safer and surer way, by the...