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...have not seen much of the world, - I use this phrase in its literal sense, - a good photograph of a picture which has meaning will impress that meaning upon you. The sublime figures which the old artists of Italy have left behind them cannot fail to arouse wondering thoughts of the minds which could conceive such forms, and of the thought which must have brought them into being. The splendid limbs of the marble relics of the ancients will carry you back to the days when men saw such limbs at every turn. The striking realism of the French pictures...
...interruption at such a time is often fatal to the success of the hard worker, and a cause of entire failure to the easy-goer; and since it is mostly through this class of non-workers that the custom is made necessary, it is upon them that we would impress the fact that there are times when it is impossible for a man to study to advantage unless he feels entirely free from chance of interruption. Considered as it is at present, it would require years of use to make "sporting the oak" a custom here, but were it considered...
...taken in it warranted its extension, and the works of Dante read, together with those perhaps of Goethe and Schiller, and other great authors not previously announced. The course would be curtailed only in case the interest of the audience seemed to languish. We hardly think it necessary to impress strongly on undergraduates that with them depends the success of this undertaking, for it is impossible for us to believe that they can be so blind to their own good as to neglect such a golden opportunity for liberal culture...
...thine impress are on us, thy spirit within...
Regard Hildebrand as only an able and resolute man, who took advantage of, though he did not make his opportunities, and there is enough in his character to impress you with a sense of its unusual dignity; nor can you follow the history of the wretched Emperor with unbated breath; he shows his teeth like a hunted rat, now in one corner, now in another; at last he exposes his neck at Canossa to the spring of the cat that for twenty years has patiently waited in the Vatican. But endow him with an instinct amounting to foreknowledge, with...