Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Indeed, the question is hardly a debatable one at all. Reason does not need to be convinced; it is only popular prejudice that is to be refuted and driven from the field, and in this all fair statistics are a certain and invincible ally. It is the statement of Matthew Arnold, in his book on "Higher Schools in Germany," that it is coming to be a recognized fact in England that the educated business men of Germany are beating the English "countinghouse" merchants in the field of foreign trade, in spite of English capital, and are every year encroaching upon...
...poem on Dean Stanley has been written by Matthew Arnold...
Andrew Lang has written a judicious and delicately worded criticism upon Poe's poetry for the "Parchment Library." It is in general somewhat after the Matthew Arnold school of criticism, which is on the whole high commendation...
...grand pianos; to furnish paragraphs and jokes to the provincial papers, and to be adored by Yale Freshmen. The old man Vassar made a big mistake when he founded that Poughkeepsie ranch, for the ungrateful young dames who go there persistently ignore the very best thing that Matthew ever produced in his life - his beer. - Acta Columbiana...