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...Dwight's first remark on Boston is the same as that of ordinary mortals, - it is in regard to the streets. Next he laments (as Dr. Holmes did only last year) "that the scheme of forming public squares should have been almost universally forgotten." The houses he calls "superior to those of every American city," and says they "appear with peculiar advantage on Mount Vernon (which used to be called Beacon Hill)." He characterizes the people as being "noted for intelligence, love of liberty, generosity, and civility." They are, he says, "distinguished by a lively imagination, having characters more resembling...
...that instant the man we spoke of came, and was passing between me and the old and nearly forgotten well, and strongly I pressed against him and he fell. A howling gust swept the field, and, folded in the darkness of the Shape, I was hurried through the air." The apparition stopped...
Were we able to detect any signs of failing strength - but we do not - in him who has all his life guided us so well and taught us so many never-to-be-forgotten lessons in true wisdom, it would be unmanly and ungenerous to turn, as our critic does, and upbraid him for those weaknesses to which all mortal flesh is subject. Such ingratitude is unfilial, inhuman. Charles Sumner used to regretfully say, "The age of chivalry is gone." Were such dispositions and sentiments as our truculent critic's article shows common in our Senator's time, he might...
Thus scarce a trace remains of the Massachusetts Indian and his times, save here and there a broken relic; his customs and habits are almost forgotten, and his lonely burial-ground and battle-field are generally unvisited and unknown. Even landmarks of the Revolution are by no means so frequent nowadays as formerly. The "Old Powder-House," in North Cambridge, is a most interesting example of those not yet destroyed...
...that in College societies the theory of government is so entirely disregarded that any settled course of policy is impossible, and the society is led on, step by step, by mere momentary whims of the majority, or by the influence of its affairs, until the original constitution is entirely forgotten. At Memorial Hall, however, the case is even worse than this, since there no constitution is to be found; for the "Scheme for carrying on the Dining Hall" was, as "A Director" has claimed, valid only for a year, and we are now left with merely a general understanding that...