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Word: south (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...civil war which was the occasion of this holiday. The day is to them a time for a pleasant ride or walk, flowers and peanuts. It seems rather hard to lay any part of the blame of the ill-feeling which is supposed to exist between the North and South on so innocent a holiday as this is known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MILITARY SPIRIT. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...setting of the south window of Memorial Hall began Wednesday. The paving cannot be finished before the 1st of June. The trimmings of red slate produce a very good effect, though we fear they will not wear well. The frescoing is to be completed within ten days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...Either the nature of values has been too little taught hitherto, or very incompetent men have been sent to Congress. If the legislators who favor inflation merely advocate the views of their constituents, it is earnestly to be desired that some philanthropic, or at least patriotic, men will emigrate South and West with their pockets filled with political-economy tracts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICAL ECONOMY. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...value might have been as tenable as the other before either was tested. But when one has failed to stand the test of usefulness, it is difficult to see how it can reasonably be advocated for another trial at the cost of public credit. Representatives from the West and South, apparently ignorant of the subject, and unwilling to be persuaded by their opponents, might at least listen to a few lessons from the learned and anxious pens that appeal to them from the chief cities of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICAL ECONOMY. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

...comparison is not fair, - yet Sardanapalus, his own creation, allows him a latitude of development which Manfred does not. In "Manfred" there is no woman. "Sardanapalus," on the contrary, has one of the fairest types of Byronic poetry. Here his true spirit shows itself; that warm, sunny, voluptuous South, mingled with the fidelity and truthfulness of the North. Byron's women are his guardian angels; and, whether good or bad, they leave an impression of beauty and passion which characterizes them alone. Manfred only speaks to Astarte. Sardanapalus both speaks to Myrrha and is answered with that passionate devotion which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BYRON'S DRAMATIC WRITINGS. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

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