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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...none in this teeming, self-occupied throng...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMPER EADEM. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...None? said I. Yes, one; with delight I espy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMPER EADEM. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...accomplishes the first of these things, it is able to do some good at least; for, in all probability, our old ideas are wrong. And why should we not study art systematically? If I place a picture of Albert Durer's before an ignorant person, he will doubtless feel none of the beauty which is certainly there. Nor will my saying to him, "This is a beautiful picture," do good. We must all have education in art, as well as in everything else requiring knowledge and judgment; and, in my opinion, this education is best secured by the analytical system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ANSWER. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...meaning of these. It will do little good for the instructor to point out the beauties in idea and expression. As to the beauty of ideas, any one who should put a decent amount of work upon Horace, and find no beauty in it, would, in my opinion, find none were it pointed out to him with ever so much care and repetition. And as to the beauty of expression, some of this must be seen in the anatomical dissection spoken of. But are we so in want of instruction in the beauty of expression of the old writers? Methinks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ANSWER. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...Even those who never write demand, as a consequence of their practice in this criticism, a higher style of excellence in books and magazines and papers. Not suddenly, of course, do they come to look upon what is mediocre with loathing; but because the process is slow it is none the less sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRITING FOR COLLEGE PAPERS. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

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