Word: worthely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...competition with masters of the art is not unlike (if the comparison is pardonable) the opportunity afforded to a divinity student in having Phillips Brooks criticize one of his sermons, or lecture to him for an hour upon the duties of his chosen profession. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well...
...Harvard students and by the reading public reached by a New York literary weekly, was so small makes any choice of names liable to the suspicion of local preferences. If is but natural that men who are about to select a list of names which whey consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced by personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York are apt to differ from those of the reading public of Boston, the errors made by a New Yorker will naturally be counter...
...American Authors" have lately been published. Those selected are by living authors, and are such as have appeared in the best magazines of this country. Among them the name of Stimpson appears. With such a large field for the editor to choose from, it is very creditable to his worth as a recent writer that the author of "Geurndale" should appear in this short list for it contains only twelve names in all. Among the young Harvard graduates who are advancing in literature, Mr. Stimpson is a leader, and he is thus acknowledged as one of the first of living...
...relative in value. In animals which are dull in sensibility compared with man the sensation of pain is comparatively less. Many of the actions and cries which they make are out of proportion to the pain they bear, and are consequently misleading. The whole question is whether it is worth while to make animals suffer for the benefit of all mankind. Dr. Bowditch proved that it is. There is no moral objection, because we often expose those we love to some pain that they may gain from the results obtained. Why should animals so much duller be spared...
...April number can not fail to satisfy the most exacting. Mr. Closson offers to us the first result of his trip to Europe in his reproduction of part of Murillo's "Immaculate Conception;" all lovers of engraving in wood can not but feel that this picture alone is worth more than the price of the magazing. The other features among the illustrations are the drawings of Mr. Gibson, illustrating Mr. Roe's novel. Mr. Dielman's drawing for the same novel, and the drawing of Howard Pyle on the "Impressment of American Seamen." Mr. Gibson's "Jack Frost's Captive...