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Page 280 - I must say that in my opinion, the vernacular tongue of the country has become greatly vitiated, depraved, and corrupted by the style of our Congressional debates ; and if it were possible for those debates to vitiate the principles of the people as much as they have depraved their tastes, I should cry out: ' God save the Republic.
Page 311 - on the 6th, 7th, and 8th days of August, 1872. The forenoon and evening of each day will be occupied by the General Association, and the afternoon of each day by the four Departments. The exercises will be held in the Lowell Institute Hall, and the Hall of the Institute of Technology. GENERAL ASSOCIATION.
Page 320 - Every word pronounced by one of his characters enables us to see, besides the idea which it contains and the emotion which prompted it, the aggregate of the qualities and the entire character which produced it, — the mood, physical attitude, bearing, look of the man, all instantaneously, with a clearness and force approached by no one.
Page 268 - SHAKESPEARE : His LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS. WITH AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND. By the Rev. HN Hudson,
Page 39 - And no child under ten years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment. No child between the ages of ten and fifteen shall be so employed who has not attended some
Page 319 - them, the need of independence, the disposition for serious and strict manners, the inclination for devotion and veneration, the worship of heroism." " Here are the foundations and the elements of a civilization slower but sounder, less careful of what is agreeable and elegant, more based on justice and truth.
Page 320 - Macaulay brings to the moral sciences that spirit of circumspection, that desire for certainty, and that instinct for truth which make up the practical mind, and which from the time of Bacon have constituted the scientific merit and power of his nation. If art and beauty are lost, truth and certainty are gained.
Page 479 - On the 1st of Dec 1871, he paid the balance. How much did he pay? 5. How to find the rate when the principal, interest, and time are given, or either one of these when the others are given. 6. I owed
Page 364 - early life of Theseus, the narrative continues thus : — " Theseus displaying not only great strength of body, but equal bravery, and a quickness alike of force and understanding, his mother, ^Ethra, conducting him to the stone, and informing him who was his true father, commanded him to take from thence the tokens that
Page 266 - every city and town, having more than ten thousand inhabitants, to make provision for giving free instruction in industrial or mechanical drawing to persons over fifteen years of age;