Word: owning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Cowper was not inventive in the way of choosing subjects for his own works. His friends always suggested them, as was the way with Fontaine, who required a guide to direct his course. In 1782 appeared his Table Talk, which attracted some attention. His Moral Satires, although they have little...
Our life here is a succession of visitations, some good, some evil; and it is for us to turn them all to good, to see our time and take advantage of it. The object of all teaching is to make people do this, but it is a hard lesson to...
III. It would be undesirable to allow a private corporation to own and control the canal. - (a) It would give foreign nations an opportunity to secure control. - (b) The policy of the U. S. in making its own internal improvements should be extended to apply to this case. - (c) In...
It is evident that the winter must have passed his life in the seclusion of his own conceit, if he thinks that such a sentiment has a glimmer of truth in it. The people with whom such flippant and inane flashes of wit have any weight at all, are those...
It would hardly be worth while to notice so spiteful an attack if there not many others whose ignorance and narrowness are cropping out every once in a while in some such as way this. They read sensational headlines of what two or three men do, or perhaps even more...