Word: toning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is an entirely wrong conception; the moral idea must be sovereign in every sphere. One profession especially in which the ethical impulse is noticeably lacking is that of journalism. It is said that the tone is low because that is what the people want; but this excuse would justify any crime, from the Crucifixion to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The voice of the people is the voice of God only when it accords with the conscience of a good man, and those who preach divorce between business and righteousness are not friends of the republic...
...SALE.- Miller piano, in first class condition, good tone, good action, on reasonable terms. Address, W. D. Cotton, Jr. 44 Hastings...
...SALE.- Miller piano, in first class condition, good tone, good action, on reasonable terms. Address, W. D. Cotton, Jr. 44 Hastings...
Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer, delivered a popular rather than a scientific lecture on "Greenland, the Arctic Island Continent," in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening. The lecture was illustrated throughout by stereopticon views of photographs which Lieutenant Peary took on his last Arctic trip. The personal tone given by the lecturer added much to the interest of the subject...
...among artists and amateurs. It is so far ahead of any mandolin ever heretofore constructed that it never fails to awaken the most enthusiastic enconiums, and expressions of surprise mingle with the praise, for the new Washburn mandolin fairly oversteps the line of expectation, and with its rich mellow tone marks out a field of its own. For the time it has been before the public its sales are phenomenal. A beautiful new catalogue (fully illustrated) telling more about this mandolin, and also giving full particulars of the 1897 models of Washburn guitars, banjos and zithers...