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...actively in England at that time - in the younger days of Byron and Wordsworth - had made its influence felt in America also, and was bringing about intellectually the same new renascence which occurred in England in the first half of this century. But the literary style of the eighteenth century still lingered about our college, and traces of the pedantic influence of its scholarship are observable throughout the volume. I find the French Revolution here spoken of several times with a sense of nearness that is strange to us, but always with an expression of that same horror that...
There is a very noticeable flavor in these Register articles of the style and habits of thought of the English eighteenth century. Perhaps Dr. Holmes acquired his alleged Pope-like style from the practice of his college days in this sort of writing. If we were to quote certain passages from this book credited to their true authors, we fear we should be held for high treason; for what a ludicrous lowering of dignities there would be! If it were to be known that an overseer of Harvard once penned Horatian stanzas of the following sort, where would all authority...
...third and fourth volumes of Lecky's "History of England in the Eighteenth Century" will appear in the spring...
...College. He was very well known, during the latter part of the last century, by several works on astronomy, which may be found among the publications of the Royal Society, of which he was a Fellow. He made the best observation of the transit of Venus taken during the eighteenth century. He also published some books on earthquakes. A short time ago a certain professor had the curiosity to ask all the professors here whether they knew anything of this once celebrated John Winthrop. Only two had ever heard...
THERE are now nine universities in Russia. They cannot boast of great antiquity, for in Russia proper there was no university until the middle of the eighteenth century, when one was founded at Moscow by the Empress Elizabeth...