Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GENTLEMEN, - I trust you will give room in your columns to a few words in the interest of aesthetics, which would probably be excluded by the prejudices of a less enlightened periodical. My subject arises from the murders which have been committed recently in this neighborhood, and as I have already used the word "aesthetics" in regard to it, it is therefore needless to say that I am a disciple of De Quincey. I lay no claim to originality; my sole ambition is to raise a warning voice in defence of that art which derives its dignity, nay, its very...
...priests rebelled against those unjust rulers, saying, Why would ye force on the wayfarer and wanderer and on the people within the gates that which ye yourselves do not and in which ye put no trust...
Still, I have not repented my course. The result has been beyond my expectations; and I trust that future ages, when they reap the benefits of the culture I have implanted in the wilderness, will see that my work has not been in vain...
...good hundred. Then, too, Mr. Perkins's lectures must not be neglected, and judge how my feelings were gratified by a glowing eulogy of etching as the highest field of engraving. With what light steps did I attend the next lectures in my favorite elective! But "put not your trust in professors." What is this that I hear? Do my ears deceive me? Alas, no! The note-book has it in black and white. "A few etchings of Rembrandt are good, but none of the modern etchings; and the magazine edited by Mr. Hamerton (alas! my own cherished Portfolio...
...Oberlin Review appears in a new dress, and celebrates its splendor in a long editorial. Unfortunately the local printers proved unequal to their task, and the pages of the Review appear in the following order: 4, 5, 2, 3, 12, 1, Its editors trust that the improvements made in the paper will induce their friends to renew their subscriptions immediately. We hope that this trust is not unfounded, but we venture to suggest one additional improvement. The name of the paper might be judiciously altered to the Ohio Labyrinth...