Word: facts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...importance, will lose much of its hold on human nature. The Mahometan and the Puritan, it is true, would be little affected, but those large portions of what is known as the Christian world, who build much upon ritual and the reverence due to antiquity, will suffer grievously, - a fact which deserves to be considered by all sentiment-destroyers. We must lose, too, or rather throw away, as useless and not money-making, that large part of history which teaches us so little, being mainly occupied in pandering to our taste for sentiment of a venerable sort, which has come...
...Courant of this week compliments our Harvard poets in a style their modesty will not suffer us to quote; but we are surprised our Yale friends can have any doubt as to the locality of the Pierian Spring from which they draw their inspiration. It is a well-known fact that the great poets of all ages have been poor; and have been driven to the Muses by starvation. Nothing is so conducive to poetic thoughts as an empty stomach; genius becomes more active and more ethereal at the absence of bodily nutriment. In after ages men will point...
...leave your all-attractive Parker's and take a stroll with me. Yes, it is rainy, and muddy, and the narrow sidewalks of the "cow-paths" so blocked up with umbrellas, that the possibility of navigating your own through them looks dubious; but no matter, - all the better, in fact. The contrast of the beauties I am about to disclose to you will be all the more striking. At any rate, you can emulate Mark Tapley for once, and get some credit for being jolly. Let us step in here a moment. Ah! yes, this a picture store; but there...
...foreign schools. Then, too, there is the Boston Art Club, where frequent exhibitions are held during the winter months, to which admittance can with little trouble be obtained. To a real enjoyment of good pictures the technical knowledge of an art critic is by no means essential. In fact, the cardinal quality of a work of true genius is, that it commends itself to the appreciation of those ignorant of artistic rules. There is nothing that will so draw a man out of himself, and make him forget the petty annoyances of a work-a-day world, as the society...
...cannot say, but I can state that a large sum of money was paid by the Metropolitan Railroad to have the elms removed. The majority of the small traders and mechanics do not vote. If the writer in the Advocate wishes to convince himself of the fact, let him stand near the polls for an hour or two some day when an election is going...