Word: famed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...body for fame, is a wearisome trial...
...those who would climb the great hill of thy fame...
...thorny paths to fame...
Thou wouldst avenge the once unspotted fame...
This volume on "Social Science," as it stands alone, is itself a monument to the honor and fame of two humorists, the author and the editor. For, certainly, no one can have read the editor's preface without the keenest appreciation of Kate McKean's trenchant wit and delicate sense of humor. Employing that same careless freedom with matters of history which Mr. Carey only anticipated her in doing, she shows a novel, if not refreshing, independence of educated opinion, and even of the ordinary processes of reason, in her estimate of the few great men who were so unfortunate...