Word: originality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appearance of the volume is much improved by the use of clearer type, and furthermore, each paragraph has now a distinct number, in place of the previous confusing subdivisions by numbers and letters. At the end important appendices are inserted, on the "Origin of the Construction "Ou Me,'" in the use of "Final Particles" etc. A valuable index is also given of all the quotations in the book. The preface is Dated Pallanzo, Lago Maggiore, September...
...early days of the Lowell Institute he was one of the most popular lecturers in the country. In 1848-9 he lectured before the Institute on the application of metaphysical and ethical science to the evidences of religion; in 1850 on political economy; in 1852, on the origin and development of the English and American constitutions; and subsequently on English philosophers from Bacon to Sir William Hamilton. The most of these lectures were subsequently published. He also published an annotated edition of Virgil, Critical Essays on the History and Present Condition of Speculative Philosophy, Principles of Political Economy, a text...
...Hannis Taylor, of Mobile, Ala., has made one of the most important recent contributions to constitutional history, in the form of a treatise on the Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, in which is drawn out, by the light of the most recent researches, the gradual development of the English constitutional system and the growth out of that system of the federal republic of the United States. Mr. Taylor is a writer of the school of Freeman and Fiske, who find in constitutional history a gradual evolution of the principles of government. To students of American history the introductory...
...Origin and Growth of the English Constitution. By Hannis Taylor. In two parts. Part 1. The Making of the Constitution. Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1889. pp. 616. Price...
...modern culture can be properly understood without a careful estimate of the Semitic element. The significance of Semitic religious ideas is familiar to us; however we may explain it, the fact remains remarkable that the three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they today (if we except Confucianism in China). control the progressive nations of the earth. To understand the beginnings of Greek art we must go in part to Babylonia and Assyria. Our alphabet came from a Semitic community. The Phoenicians were the intermediaries between the peoples of the ancient...