Word: globe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CONANT and F. S. ELLIOT.Best general references: A. L. Lowell's Essays on Government, Cabinet Responsibility; Nation, XVI, 234-235; Speeches of Morrill, Cox, and Thayer, Cong. Globe, 38 Cong., 2 Sess., 420-24, 437-444, 446-448; Speech of Sen. Morrill, Cong. Record, 46 Cong. 1 Sess., 971-74; Freeman Snow, Cabinet Government...
...confess that it is with more and more diffidence that I rise every year to have my little talk with you about books and the men that have written them. If I remember my terrestrial globe rightly, one gets into his temperate zone after passing the parallel of forty, and arrives at that shall I call it Sheltered Haven of Middle Age, when, in proportion as one is more careful of the conclusions he arrives at, he is less zealous in his desire that all mankind should agree with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does...
...climatic diversity of the eastern and western sides of continents. In just the same way, as the range of our study of literature widens, and the terra incognita diminishes to a few obscure points here and there, we are enabled to construct a tolerably perfect map of the globe of intellectual achievement and adventure and to color its boundaries, if only theoretically, yet with some approach to accuracy in the distinction of certain primary characteristics. In these lectures, it has been my desire, however inadequately in the nature of things I have been able to fulfil it, to keep these...
Best general references: Nation, XVI, pp. 234-5; Morrill, Cox and Thayer in Cong. Globe, 38th Cong. 2nd Sess, pp, 420-24, 437-44, 446-48; Senator Morrill in Cong. Rec., 46th Cong. 1st Sess...
...Cong. Globe, 1864-65 second session, part 1; Canadian Monthly, XVIII, part...