Word: violent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...always with us. Professor Royce's recent discussion of it is here made the occasion of two more, one on either side. The present reviewer finds the so-called reply to Professor Royce not at all to his taste. The tone of the article is unfortunate, its style violent, its though confused. The following paragraph is typical in its hopeless lack of logic: "Parenthetically as to 'loyalty', it is one of the moral values that I least admire. It usually implies a subjection of your own sentiments and convictions. A high enterprise needs no appeal to loyalty, and an unworthy...
Cokes, a country squire, comes up to London to the fair, to get his marriage license, attended by Waspe, his testy guardian, who calls for the license at John Littlewit's. Mrs. Littlewit conceives a violent craving for roast pig, and Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, both hypocritical Puritans, agree to escort her to the fair, where it may be obtained, although they protest loudly against the vanity of such shows. The Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo...
...Football was not in any sense an organized sport, and rowing was only followed for three or four weeks. The animal spirits were manifested in bonfires in the Yard, and in other pranks. This is now worked off in organized athletics, though there is no necessity for the "rough, violent, fierce sports commonly thought necessary to the development of martial qualities." The fact that over 1200 Harvard men served honorably in the Civil War, over 160 of them giving up their lives, is ample proof that the "martial spirit" was alive in the Harvard of fifty years...
...Grind and the Sport," with which the number closes, either Mr. Erwin is a deliberate caricaturist or for once has fallen into a sin of overstatement and violent figure of which his clear insight and good judgements have not before been guilty
...inhabited by a rapidly decreasing half-civilized race with many virtues, but the usual aboriginal weaknesses. On the island of Omimak is a ruin of a large town, the inhabitants of which were slain by Russian sailors in 1830. There are 150 islands in the group, each exhibiting violent internal commotion, volcanoes still active, and numerous hot volcanic springs...