Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Furness is probably the greatest American Shakespearian scholar and ranks among the greatest in the world today. After graduating from Harvard in 1854, he spent two years studying abroad and then returned to Philadelphia. His "Variorum Edition of Shakespeare" is accepted by students of all nationalities as the standard work of its kind and has received warm appreciation from the leading literary critics of England and America...
...change from writing for art's sake alone, to writing for a purpose. Instead of placing their scenes in Paris these writers removed their stories from the capital. Barres for example preaches country life and M. Le Roux, believing that the French should know more about the outside world, especially wished in his own works to make his people familiar with foreign lands. He spoke of the virtues of patriotism, and in closing paid a grateful tribute to the great vigor of American ideas...
...Signet, O. K., and the Hasty Pudding Club. At the beginning of the Spanish war he went south with the Rough Riders, and afterwards was appointed lieutenant in the fortieth volunteer infantry in the Philippines. After serving the time of his enlistment he made a trip around the world, and soon after returning home went to spend a few weeks on the ranch in New Mexico where he was killed...
...peoples to pronounce the word hypocrisy, when they judge the scruples of their neighbors. It is the privilege of culture to replace these prejudices which establish a barrier between races, by an intellectual superiority enabling them to appreciate the variety of the manifestations of thought and feeling throughout the world...
...State of Christendom," by Sir Henry Wotton, published in London in 1657; "Dramatic Sketches of Ancient Northern Mythology," by Frank Sayres, published in London in 1790;" "The World," by Adam Fits-Adam, published in London in 1753-56; and the "Anthologia Hibernia, or Collections of Science Belles-Letters and History," published in Dublin...