Word: singularities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this coupled with an explicit threat of war. To warn the men of this University that any discussion or criticism of this position of our government can spring only from the lowest motives, and must instantly stop, involves such a novel idea of popular government and such a singular conception of patriotism that serious argument about it is almost impossible. For three weeks thinking men have talked of nothing else, and there has been no stint of outspoken criticism. Unless Mr. Roosevelt has it also on hand to go on and shut up the press, the pulpit, the market-place...
From the same publishers we have also received "A Singular Life" by Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. It is an interesting account of the courtship of Mr. and Mrs. Ward at Andover. As an autobiography it is excellent but as a novel it is decidedly stupid...
...inhabitants of the northwestern section along the Pacific were the Aleuts and the western Esquimaux. They are characterized by their carvings of bone, ivory and stone, in which there is often a singular combination of human heads and animal bodies. They had no pottery and used instead vessels of wood, stone or basket work...
architectural remains in many parts of Greece. His singular ability has repeatedly been recognized by appointments to positions of authority...
...period. The beauty of the classic and religious motives appear to perfection in his paintings. His characters were sensuous but never sensual. Correggio was litte affected by the great movements of his time. He was one of the very greatest of the Renaissance painters, and it is a singular thing that he painted and died almost in obscurity...