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Dates: during 1870-1879
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I WONDER if anybody nowadays reads Pascal's Provincial Letters? Much comfort may be drawn therefrom for the worldly-minded. Here the writer of other men's themes finds spiritual comfort, nor is any one so gifted with a talent for lying that he may not here find a sufficient...
I saw, with other eyes than mine, a better world than ours,
THE other day, as I was improving a shining hour in a recitation which, by some strange mischance, lacked that absorbing interest which our recitations so generally possess, I happened to be looking at our elegant friend Augustus just as our instructor called upon Smudge. Now Smudge is not an...
Knowing this, and knowing what a good-natured, good-hearted fellow Augustus really is, I was rather surprised to see a sneer on his face when he heard Smudge's name. Looking at Smudge to see the reason, I could see that he is no beauty; his hands are large...
There is, too, strange and sad as it may seem, a feeling among the more intellectual circles that the coming man will not be a Cartesian. A gentleman connected with the College said to me the other day that Descartes's writings would be regarded in a few years as...