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...Nature dwelt in God with purest harmony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIGHT-THOUGHTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

...geographical sense, so to speak, but hardly in any rational sense, and has the effect of exaggerating and perpetuating those false issues which we now seek to avoid. The mere fact, however, that given sections of a class should hold caucus meetings has nothing in it foreign to the purest democracy, nor even that they aim at securing positions for their candidates among the class officers, provided that they secure their ends by presenting a strong ticket, and not by cracking a society whip over the heads of the recalcitrant. In point of fact, this seems to be the only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...literary; they introduce the student to the Roman comedy and the earlier Republican style; - while the Satires of Horace are so different from the odes that they may be considered practically as by an author new to the student. The opportunity to read Terence, a specimen of the very purest Latin in a form as yet new to most Sophomores, should not be neglected, without careful thought, by any who are anxious to understand either the structure or literature of the language. The Satires of Horace are the best possible picture of society in the last year of the Republic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTIVE COURSES IN LATIN. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...hardly deem it necessary to state to our lady readers, especially to those who know us, that we do not indorse the above sentiments referring to their insincerity, etc. We regard woman as the purest and most finished specimen of God's handiwork...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...drunk every night, or keep a harem, or hold every heresy that theologians have denounced, and yet be a strictly honorable man. Lady Hamilton did not make Nelson less than the pink of honor, nor did Pitt's port prevent his being one of the purest and noblest statesmen that ever lived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTILSHOMMES, BOURGEOIS, ARTISTES. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

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