Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from this rule tends to reduce murder to butchery. It is only a vulgar mind which can delight in blood or in mutilation; we may compare a piece of work treated in a bloody, filthy, or mutilating manner to the ranting of a poor tragedian. There is also another reason for this first principle: if the work is not done cleanly it presents an appearance of bungling or hesitation, and nothing is more fatal than that to the impressiveness of the murder. If the artist does not make it plain that he has treated his subject coolly, deliberately, and carefully...
Thirdly, the artist must escape undetected after he has given the last touch to his work. The reason for this principle is like the second of the ten given in support of the first principle. If the artist, leaving his work complete, escapes entirely undetected, then his deed is a mysterious horror, and no man can be sure that the fate of the subject will not be his own. The murderer has done his work cleanly and skilfully (we will say), and is gone. No one knows who he is, what are his motives, what are his resources of courage...
...priori grounds, at least, it is safe to say that seldom during the year has Harvard been represented by such an elegant assemblage of wit, or, at any rate, of wisdom, as, meeting round the festive board at Parker's on Friday evening, April 16, prolonged its feast of reason, without artificial aid from the flowing bowl, almost into Saturday morning. There were present about thirty of the more prominent scholars of the upper classes, who had there met together for mutual amusement. The injunctions of the menu had been carefully and fully observed by half past nine, and then...
...respectable contemporary, the Boston Advertiser, condemns a French sentence in the Danbury News, and says, Qu'est que cela, Mons. Danbury Newsman? It is with reason that the Advertiser dislikes the practice of using French so common among fashion reporters...
...largest real University in the country, for she seems never to tire of increasing and improving the opportunities she offers for intellectual development, and is doing her best to rank high, in more than mere numbers, among the educational institutions of the world. We have good reason from the past and present to predict a great advance for her in the future...