Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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We publish with pleasure a communication taking exception to one of our recent editorials. We anticipated a difference of opinion between us and some of our readers, when we inserted the editorial referred to. Giving the arguments our correspondent has cited all the weight they contain, we would state firmly...
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In regard to verse, the same general principle, sincerity, which has been used in the foregoing papers of this discussion, will apply. A light, or humorous poem is sometimes tolerable, even if it lacks the greatest finish. A good joke may often carry off a poor rhyme. Yet an equally...
If a man thinks that he has a really poetic conception, it is well for him to try to express himself in metre. But he should be chary about giving such a production to the public; for few are true poets, and he may not be of the few. College...
Although the question of pessimism has already been covered, yet it may not be out of place to make a special application of the principle of sincerity to the subject. The idea has in some way gotten abroad that a pessimist is a child of the devil, with notions accordingly...