Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...think of attending any religious duty at the suggestion of another. That would foster in him 'a school-boy spirit,' and, moreover, make him unworthy of his sires. Did they not settle Boston that they might have freedom to worship God, and can he aim at anything less than freedom not to worship him?" Is not this slightly tainted with a school-boy spirit? We think Mr. Kirwan's question, "Really, Bishop Hughes, how old are you?" applicable to the present case...
...have given his support if he had wished; for it would have involved him in the inconsistency of urging the Non-Conforming Scotch and English to disestablish the Episcopal Church in Ireland, and at the same time to recognize the Catholic Hierarchy. So Cardinal Cullen, resolved to accept nothing less than the full measure of his demands, orders the Catholic members of Parliament to side with the Tories to defeat the bill of the Ministers. Gladstone falls by the ingratitude of those whose chief benefactor for five years he has been; nor are the students of Dublin sufficiently free from...
...college circles, owing to this very prevalence of roughing, a person is guarded in his expressions, and assures himself of the correctness of statements before venturing to make them. It renders him more careful and less apt to blunder through fear of jesting at his expense. But it is the power which it gives one to turn the laugh upon the attacking party, to parry the pointed allusion and to return one equally or more forcible, the facility with which it enables us to flash back a repartee or retort, that especially recommends, instead of condemns, roughing. My intention...
...modest charity. Whatever a man's faults may be, or however contemptible, in the common sense, he may appear, if he has a kindly or unselfish trait in his character, it is that which Thackeray dwells upon, which excites his enthusiasm. Perhaps there is no quality which we should less expect to find in a cynic than that of pathos, certainly there is none in which Thackeray more excels. And, moreover, his pathos is extremely simple and unartificial. A good instance of it is the description of Colonel Newcome's death. In this there is no introduction of surroundings...
...excellence of reproduction, the portrait from Van Dyck's Iconographia must be mentioned. It is wonderful that such success has been attained with an etching. Here we have what Van Dyck alone can give us, - the real nobleman. Durer's portrait of his old patron, Pirkheimer, is hardly less valuable than the foregoing...