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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...scarcely yet laid out its work, and he arrived just in time to claim his heritage. Seizing upon the ideas then working in the revolutionary furnace, he formed them to his own liking, assimilated them to his own, and finally ran them into his own mould, - a mould of iron, which it has hitherto been found impossible to break. This was the birth of our Civil Code, and national system of education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...exception, - fifty in all. These are specimens of Durer arranged chronologically. That is, the woodcuts ranging from 1505 - 1511 are together, and then follow the engravings commencing with the "Prodigal Son," placed with six others "before 1495," and ending with the portrait of Erasmus, 1526. The two etchings on iron were done in the same year, and hence are introduced together among the engravings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGRAVINGS. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

That puffed the iron ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORMING OF MISSION RIDGE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...that character in climes so distant from their own. My valuables were with difficulty crammed into the limited space, and I followed the official to a small dressing-room, which likewise looked amazingly like a prison-cell; for the walls were made half of wood and half of stout iron bars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TURKISH BATH. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

Such cases are common in every class, and are a sad commentary upon the culture of this institution. In fact, this is the present state of things, that no one but a man of iron will can hope to come here and resist the multitude of influences that quickly shall be set to work to lead him astray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGION AT HARVARD. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

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