Word: seen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Good England's queen is only seen...
When the same vandal influence which assailed religion in the case or the chaplainship is seen to be at work to undermine social feeling by attacking its expression, one may well wish that his lot had been cast in that golden age (problematical, to be sure, even in Homer's time) when a warrior raised with ease a stone that in after times was to require the strength of four of the fast degenerating species...
...beyond the reach of any college student. Heliotypes are so thoroughly within the reach of everybody that, very naturally, nobody wants them. What you do want and need are good photographs and tolerable engravings of pictures or of statues or of buildings or of scenes which everybody has not seen, and which everybody does not see in every room that he enters...
...societies, which, as already organized bodies, have hitherto found it very easy and profitable to form coalitions, have voted in favor of a bona fide open election, - to throw open all the offices without any distinction to the whole class, - and we sincerely hope that the result will be seen in a wise choice of the best man for each place. Of course, this result will not be reached unless the old jealousies are entirely thrown away, and it is equally certain that the experiment of this year will not be repeated by succeeding classes unless the issue proves that...
...vital energy wasted! Such is the sentiment with which we read the Berkleyan's pulverization of Carlyle. "The War of Independence," "Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century" furnish the pellets of a charge more remarkable for vigor than originality. We scarce remember to have seen, however, a more startling sense given to the metaphor of the feast of reason than when the writer likens Harvard degrees to the nectar of the gods, Harvard University to Vulcan exciting ridicule by playing Hebe, and Mr. Carlyle to a "little European godkin...