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...fiction, the finest passages are seldom selected by the ordinary vandal; here, at least, he marks the best known parts, avoiding love passages lest he may seem sentimental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARKING BOOKS. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXERCISES AT THE TREE. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

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