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The nation11.07.1872
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 11. Juli 1872
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    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] campaign; if I have not told you so before, I tell it to you now, for it is the truth. There are only two powers in Christendom—France and Spain; as to the others, they are mere imitators and nothing more.” [...]
[...] and polygamy or not, just as they pleased; but individual exceptions can in no wise be taken as evidence of the goodness or badness of a general system. The Puritan observance of Sabbath may have become a mere habit with us, just as our political machinery has done, without much discernment or living principle, and it may be rapidly degenerating. We in New England [...]
[...] us, just as our political machinery has done, without much discernment or living principle, and it may be rapidly degenerating. We in New England may be merely following good general habits, moral and political, as the Jews did, without applying their essential principles to the exigencies of the times, proceeding from routine rather than from ſorethought and reflection; [...]
[...] est (lit. “‘Je connais peu d'écouteurs aussi intelligents. Les bons écouteurs font les bons parleurs.”—Mére, (Euvres posthumes, i. 23. “2. Celui qui écoute par indiscrétion.” This appears to be conclusive evidence that écout ur is sometimes used as [...]
[...] ing, “listener,” and qualifies it with “bad sense,” allowing no other ? If, as we suppose, the author “Mére" is Méré (1610–1685), the tendency of French usage since his day is strongly in favor of Blackwood's line of argument; and of Méré it is asserted in Bouillet's “Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire [...]
[...] politics?” —There has been much unsatisfactory speculation as to the origin of the word “Maroon’—a fugitive slave—which seems merely an abbreviated form of the Spanish-American “Cimarron,” denoting the same thing (primarily an adjective signifying “wild, unruly,” applied to men and beasts). Whatever [...]
[...] partly think the volume would practically have been shorter had it been lengthened by more discursive comments, biographic and historic, and more of the mere poetry which keeps for Dante a place in the common heart of mankind, in spite of all that offends in him, in spite of all that puzzles, all that time has consigned to dusty death, all that transcends the possible ex [...]
[...] BOOK on Goethe is so far from being an ordinary production of the Ame rican press that the mere fact of its appearance is noteworthy, and when, moreover, we receive one that shows a generous appreciation of much that s best in this great man, and a delicate, intelligent sympathy with his life [...]
[...] any means in them alone, though it is in relation to them that the world is most nearly agreed about what goes to show this fault. If this were simply a personal fault, merely affecting one in his relations with his more intimate companions, the essayist might well omit all mention of it; for who cares for Herder's irritability or Voltaire's testiness? ISut in Goethe this egotism [...]
[...] controlling influence over national prosperity. This error may be met by showing that in the daily transaction of current business, the choice between metal and paper is merely one of convenience, and that, in fact, where busi [...]
The nation06.01.1876
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 06. Januar 1876
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] Fellahs ; Sepoys could be sent by the thousand from India. We must be prepared to see England throw aside the thin veil of her ambition, take possession of the Isthmus, and reduce the Khedive to the rank of a mere lieutenant of Great Britain. º France was at first a little dismayed on hearing that the Suez Canal, [...]
[...] century, although forgotten or discredited in this, that an insect caught on the viscid glands it has happened to alight upon is soon fixed by many more—not merely in consequence of its struggles, but by the spontaneous incurvation of the stalks of surrounding and untouched glands; and even the body of the leaf had been observed to incurve or become cup-shaped so [...]
[...] the centre of the leaf in half an hour ; but this is a case of extreme rapidity. A particle of cinder, chalk, or sand will also incite the bending if actually brought in contact with the gland, not merely resting on the drop ; but the inflection is then much less pronounced and more transient. Even a bit of thin human hair, only 1-8,000th of an inch in length, weighing only the [...]
[...] spine-like bristles merely intercross their tips, leaving intervening spaces through which one may look into the cavity beneath. A good idea may be had of it by bringing the two palms near together to represent thesides of the [...]
[...] adapted for catching living creatures; and the few incomplete investiga tions that have already been made render it highly probable that they appropriate their prey for nourishment, whether by digestion or by mere absorption of decomposing animal matter, is uncertain. It is certainly most remarkable that this family of plants, wherever met with, and under the [...]
[...] should be higher in England than in America. “We prefer," says one of his foreign critics, “the roughness of the backwoods of America to all the drawing room conventionalities of Europe.” This is a mere matter of taste; but the roughness of the backwoods, modified as it is in Mr. Miller's poetry, * * very different effect in England, where it appears as a mere phe [...]
[...] No doubt many of these pioneers were not bad men, and many of them suffered and met death bravely. But their motives were not the highest, and such talk as Mr. Miller's concerning them is mere ludicrous rant, which to an American gives the measure of his common sense, while an English man unacquainted with the facts might fancy that Mr. Miller was celebrat [...]
[...] dically the distinction, based on the presence or absence of premeditation, between murder and manslaughter. He proves by statistics that the same motives occasion both crimes, the difference merely being that some classes of motive have a more sudden and, so to speak, resistless power over the will of the criminal. Cupidity, for instance, produces more murders than man [...]
[...] land a six days' voyage, by steamer, from the nearest Australian city. . This volume will perhaps be found a trifle dry to readers who resort to it for mere amusement, but—except for a little excess of rose-color— [...]
[...] “It is fascinating as well as instructive. It throws new light on Holy Writ, and corrects much that has been imper fectly understood and incorrectly reported by mere tourists It is the work of an expert, and not of a mere surface-ob [...]
The nation11.01.1872
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 11. Januar 1872
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] nished, such a house cost $125, and 5,497 had been erected or were in process of completion, at a saving of rental to the occupants estimated at 60 per cent. of the cost of the mere building, in six months. The week's rations for a family of five (two adults and three children) have been brought down [...]
[...] tion of growth of the lower orders of cryptogamic botany. This is a domain into which I could not discover that Dr. Parry had ever entered, so far as his ractical work here gave any indication. The routine operations of a mere ſº botanist are practically unimportant.” [...]
[...] directed generally against the new men, Morris, Swinburne, Rossetti, Robert Lytton, Matthew Arnold, and, though he is hardly a “new” man, “Festus” Bailey. Buchanan is also mentioned, but slightly, and, as is evident, merely to avoid suspicion. All these writers are stigmatized as followers and imi tators of Tennyson, but as followers and imitators of what is weak and sen [...]
[...] ties. The introduction of a chorus from Halévy's “Charles VI.” in a con cert at Paris led to the censorship of all future programmes; the language of the dead—mere incomprehensible words—in one of Berlioz's choruses gave great trouble to the Roman authorities, who called in German, Eng lish, Swedish, Russian, Irish, and Bohemian interpreters to try to explain it; [...]
[...] his landscape usually retains all its bleakness, its bareness, its uncompas sionate remoteness from the warmth of human sympathies. Or, if his land scape does give us more than its mere self, more than -- . . the wind [...]
[...] “Yet mark the titmice— Smallest of the tribe, mere specks of feathers, Bits of painted quill, so delicate, a flaw From either pole would extirpate the race: [...]
[...] be much more worthless than it is but for the liberal co-operation of well known philologists, whose contributions, however, have not wholly escaped the author's propensity to blunder. As a mere catalogue, it may be consulted for words or definitions not contained in Bartlett—e.g., filibuster, in Congres- . sional usage; texas, of a boat; cavort, etc.—but, on the other hand, it can [...]
[...] frequent resort to him. If in Germany it is very different, if he still holds his place on the stage, and exerts a living influence on nearly the whole peo ple, there must be some sounder reason than mere kinship to explain this difference. A truer explanation would be the higher asthetic cultivation of the German people. That this is widespread, the popularity of Shakespeare [...]
[...] and the sentimental poet, between the realist and the idealist—or, to take the example most frequently used by him, Shakespeare and Schiller. No mere enumeration, however, can do justice to the variety and ingenuity of his remarks. Then, too, their brevity and lack of connection, the fact that this is more a note-book than a book, make it more difficult of analysis. He [...]
[...] fill a void in New York journalism. It is filled with a se lection of the more noticeable articles of the various daily papers—not editorial merely, but extracts also ſrom news and correspondence. 'ihus at a glance the busy man who has had no leisure to see more than one, if any, [...]
The nation21.09.1871
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 21. September 1871
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    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] and inadequate view of municipal life”; but, as might have been expected, takes itself a narrower view of municipal life than its German contemporary, and merely mentions the schools, the public health, the water supply, and the police as matters with which a city government must deal, but in which residents, though not house-owners, have just [...]
[...] ancient Rome, either made great additions to the population, or de stroyed its homogeneousness, the municipality lost its political charac ter wholly, and became merely an administrative machine. Neverthe less, the histories of Athens, and Thebes, and Sparta, and Florence, and Bruges, and Ghent, and Strasburg were so splendid and picturesque, [...]
[...] of a municipal government “based on real estate”; but we used the term house-owners as merely a synonym for taxpayers, for few others in New York now pay direct taxes. But the collection of direct taxes from as large a number of persons as possible, say all householders and [...]
[...] inclined to refer to his arbitration all those important questions for the decision of which even politicians feel other qualities are wanted than mere zeal for party. Thus some years ago, when the suppression of the riots in Jamaica made an enquiry into the steps taken by Governor Eyre absolutely essential, the Liberal Government, then in power, appointed [...]
[...] immoral, but merely because France was not ready, nor strong enough. This opposition to the war, founded simply on expediency, was enough to convince the country of M. Thiers's wisdom, and twenty-nine departments [...]
[...] of past and modern ages; he looks upon the lamentable peace at Frank fort with admiration. Why should he bear the control of seven hundred gentlemen, who are merely squires, merchants, proprietors, magistrates, country gentlemen º Do they understand war better than he does? They thought it necessary to disarm the National Guards where they are not [...]
[...] the Frenchman has throughout to be subordinated to the historian, whose opinion upon events which concern the whole civilized world must be based on other elements than merely the interests of his own country. He is not satisfied with pointing out what a worse than worthless compensation for her moral degradation the military glory and boundless conquests of [...]
[...] thoroughly informed about the relations between Bonaparte and the Ro bespierres, and it is certainly not enough to refute the opinions of several of the most eminent historians by mere mention that the Robespierres once called Bonaparte “their man.” [...]
[...] prisal which his (Bonaparte's) policy provoked on the part of Venice has always () been made to appear as the principle and motive of his conduct, instead of being merely its consequence. The preliminaries of Iseoben, for example, have always (!) appeared to have been prepared and justified by the pºwes réronaises, whereas in reality Bonaparte had fully made up [...]
[...] “One of the most striking pieces of historical composition of which France, rich as she is in that order, has its boast. Assuredly, M. Lanfrey's book is important not merely for the illustration which it supplies of pure theories of gov ernment, but for the light which it throws on the charac [...]
The nation09.11.1876
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 09. November 1876
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] ume before us affords abundant indications of thorough re search, such as assure the reader that it is not to be in any sense a mere compilation.” T//E AW. Y. W.V/) FPEAVA) E.V. Z' character [...]
[...] different ballots, containing in all fifty-three names. Whether the fact that of these thirty-five were candidates for membership of an Electoral College—which merely votes ministerially, and whose de liberations produce exactly the same result, no matter what names are on it—makes the system more or less objectionable, is perhaps [...]
[...] continuous incarceration is by executive pardon. There is, in fact, no more beautiful proof of the elasticity of free institutions than the development of the pardoning power from a merely corrective and infrequently-used prerogative into a great bulwark of liberty and guarantee of civil rights, like habeas corpus or quo warranto. [...]
[...] mony of a distinguished juggler or spirit-exposer, Mr. Maskelyne, to show how the writing on the slate might be produced, as Slade produced it, by mere sleight of hand, and he went through his tricks in court to the great entertainment of the audience. The question is now raised whether this was legitimate testimony, and whether [...]
[...] aid that another man is able to produce the same phenomena by mere manual dexterity. Such testimony, besides being unusual, is certainly in the present state of our knowledge hard on spiritualists, but we seem to be threatened with a good deal of it, for several [...]
[...] acter of American inventiveness—a trait grown so general as to be a national characteristic, and which becomes, like painting in France or music in Germany, a school—a state of development in which not merely a great genius here and there comes to the light, but a certain amount of mechanical knowledge and capacity enables the generality of Yankee men [...]
[...] self to lateral attacks on the side of Italy—perhaps of Northern Germany. The Austrian army was in fine condition. A campaign in Bosnia would be a mere promenade ; a campaign against Russia would be the end of Austria. Thus spoke the last military Hapsburg. Count Andrássy was not of the same mind. Hungary, said he, would never give her consent to [...]
[...] any such materialistic view of man as confounds intellectual thought with the molecular action of the brain which accompanies it, or reduces conscience to the mere nervous irritation which it occasions. They not only hold that to liken the action of man's moral nature to the pro duction of electricity from metals, or the secretion of bile from the liver, [...]
[...] Germany, France, Switzerland, or Scandinavia any scientific weight is at tached to popular magazine articles or lectures. It is eminently character istic of the United States and England to find a mere magazine writer or popular lecturer aspire to be classed among the ranks of scientific men, be cause he has been a popular expounder of scientific subjects or has taken [...]
[...] forests or swamps, for the sole purpose of de scribing the native birds.”—Lord Brougham. “By the mere force of native genius, and of delight in nature, he became, without knowing it, a good, a great writer."—Blackwood's Maga [...]
The nation13.02.1873
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 13. Februar 1873
  • Erschienen
    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] what he thinks best for the welfare of the country, irrespective of all other men. On the contrary, it divides itself into two political parties—and a political party is not a mere assemblage of indivi duals, but a singular entity, having its history, traditions, instincts, and prejudices as well as principles and objects. Its members do [...]
[...] new grievance, and ask to remove the restrictions which are designed to give it an unsectarian character; and then it will appear that we have, in fact, been merely taking the first step towards a direct endowment of a Catholic university. This last opinion seems to be gaining ground amongst the Radicals; but, though objecting to the scheme more decidedly than at [...]
[...] My mention of the fact that I had revised but not corrected the passage expressing my respect for the tone and aim of the Nation was not meant to be in the least “minatory.” Its purpose was merely to bring to mind that, notwithstanding the many provocations to small wrath which had been given me, I had not thought even of such a retaliation as the mere omission [...]
[...] ments, is a very serious matter for merchants to contemplate; but this is not all they would have to bear, for, unless the condition of trade happened te be in a peculiarly fortunate state, the mere prospect of declining markets would be sufficient to so reduce the demands of consumers that a stagna tion in business, culminating in a financial panic, would be the inevitable [...]
[...] praises the motto, on the grounds that the aims of the Washingtons were lofty and sought by legitimate means. It was enough for them, however, merely to assert their own independence of character, trusting to the result to vindicate actions regarded before the event as rash, impolitic, or singular. [...]
[...] of reference. Read merely for entertainment, it will disappoint in the his torical portion by a want of clearness, and in the narrative by a certain awkwardness of style and grammatical carelessness, of which the following [...]
[...] nationality to a company of traders, speculators, and philanthropists, who are doubtless particularly impressed by his uprightness. If Mr. Hazard were a mere advocate, which he is very far from being, he would have suppressed those passages in Dominican history which exhibit the periodic attempts, during the past quarter of a century, to attach the [...]
[...] Ages.” One cannot be cruel to angels aud their brother, the Frate, with impunity, and the faces, even in this lithographed copy, strike a terror into the spirit, making a man aſſaid lest he be in their sight merely cul tured and blasé and literary. - We may not indicate with even a word the riches of the book in mere [...]
[...] the Church he might properly defend amid the profound courtesy of such Pro testant readers as will use his work for reference. But if he could have taken the philosophical, rather than the merely orthodox, aspect of his theme, his chance of living as a reputable authority to the end of the century would be better. Opinions, even balanced and studied opinions, are dying around [...]
[...] bell & Son. 1872. 8vo, pp. 300.)—Ex-Senator Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, is one of the very few among our public men who look upon politics as a science which needs to be studied--not a mere scramble of empirical usages; and, what is better, who has not merely studied carefully, but actually suc ceeded, by his own personal influence, in introducing political reforms—on a [...]
The nation12.10.1876
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 1876
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    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] involved for the past week arose, no doubt, in great measure from the determination of both parties to affect the minds of voters in Ohio and Indiana. The result of the election does not merely show the “drift of opinion,” but it gives three electoral votes to the party which carries the legislature. The population is not of [...]
[...] a Know-Nothing, which is probably the height of absurdity. Mr. Schurz has found it necessary to take up the subject on the stump and explain that the letter was probably a mere “routine” letter, such as every politician writes to people who say they are ready to support him, and meant nothing. In our opinion, the moral to be drawn [...]
[...] work in forcing all the candidates for congressional seats to declare their intentions as to civil-service reform. This is the only way to make sure of them. But no mere declaration of intention on their part will be sufficient. The civil service will never be reformed until positive legislation secures in some way those in the employ of [...]
[...] and character which the stern task of genuine reform requires; for the American people cannot now afford to risk the future of the Republic in experiments on merely supposed virtue or rumored ability, to be trusted on the strength of private recommendations.” But then he acknowledges that the nominations on both sides, though [...]
[...] it, therefore, “the partial examination of 1876,” as contrasted with “the careful survey of 1875,” made in advance of Mr. Eads's operations, and says that it was “merely incidental, and not projected for comparison with the first survey, nor sufficient for such purpose.” On this Mr. Eads re marks that “unless made for such comparison, it would have been without [...]
[...] —Mr. Hamerton's serial on Turner has been the attractive part of the Portfolio for months past. The merely lyrical treatment of this unique artist's genius to which we have heretofore been accustomed gives way in these papers to one a great deal less Pindaric and much more reasonable [...]
[...] and analytic. In criticising the “Dolbudern Castle,” which represents Turner at the Centennial Exhibition, the critic is half contemptuous “Turner’s ‘Dolbadern’ is merely a brown picture of the Wilson class, with some feeling for the sublimity of an isolated tower amidst mountain scenery, but no delight in nor observation of the especial character of landscape [...]
[...] tributed amongst three households under three wives, ſive or six slave mothers having apartments in the houses of one or other of the wives, and being virtually under their supervision.” The rest were merely slaves in various degrees. The etiquette and decorum of the harem, which the Pasha could not walk across without the attendance of a eunuch ; the rela [...]
[...] To Klesmer and his wife, indeed, particular attention should be di Their story is a mere fragmentary episode, not telling directly on the main plot of the novel. It is apparently intro duced to set off, by way of contrast, the baseness committed bf [...]
[...] their impressiveness to our author's works wanting in her last production. The profound influence for good or bad of one character over another is in a sense the theme of the whole book. Deronda's mere glance checks Gwen dolen's career at the gambling-table, and brings her conscience to life. Grandcourt's absolute selfishness depresses the moral nature of every person [...]
The nation19.10.1871
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 1871
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    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] CQLCATE & CO.'S & H MERE BOUQUET SOAP has 4 novel but very delightful perfume, tºº is in every respect wºt?»erior for [...]
[...] what might have been if slavery had never troubled the waters of American politics would be as sad an occupation as a patriotic man could sit down to. The mere sight of what moth and rust have done to our political fabric during the last thirty years is enough to excuse the despondency with which many of our best and purest minds look into [...]
[...] possess a de facto government dominating civilly over the territory and people, acting by and through its civil arm as counterdistinguished from its mere military power, in a manner and to an extent sufficient to satisfy the rule 2 This we say is a question of fact. Its answer is to be found in the constitution of affairs within the Confederacy, in the [...]
[...] rather made to rest upon a contingency—upon the happening of an event which has never happened—namely, its final success. These securities, therefore, may have been, in fact as well as in figure, mere [...]
[...] further along the island-shore, it seems indeed a watery world. Before you stretches the huge expanse of the upper river, with its belittled cliffs, now mere black lines of forest, dull as with the sadness of gazing at eternal storm. Anything more horribly desolate than this boundless livid welter of the rapids it is impossible to conceive, and you very soon begin [...]
[...] perpendicular excrescences of rock ; and, above all, near the summit, the fantastic figures of sundry audacious minor cliffs, grafted upon the greater by a mere lateral attachment and based in the empty air, with great lone trees rooted on their verges, like the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio at Florence. The actual whirlpool is a third of a mile further down the [...]
[...] certain comparisons and lively images based upon his painful sensations, of which medicine and surgery (too confident in their science) did not take sufficient account, coming as they did from the mouth of a mere man-of letters. Sainte-Beuve said, one day, ‘You will see; they will never know what is the matter with me until they have opened me.’” [...]
[...] during her life, and unhappy at times afterwards because the honors won by his restless ambition brought little consolation to a childless man. And it is not less to be regretted that this record of his mere political activity excludes any but the slightest mention of his labors for popular education, which are, after all, his best title to fame. Earl Grey congratulates him [...]
[...] larship which distinguished the “Outlines of History,” and will be found very desirable companions to that work. The “Questions” are not by any means merely questions upon the “Outlines,” as the title would lead one to suppose. They refer equally to “Outlines” and “Atlas”; but besides this, as many as half of the questions, if we are not mistaken, have the [...]
[...] for the question-and-answer style of school-book, although we admit that, when skilfully prepared, it is perhaps possible to bring out points with more definiteness and compactness by this method than by mere statement. At any rate, one must recognize the great merit of the questions and an swers before us. It would, however, be impossible to carry any ordinary [...]
The nation23.06.1870
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 23. Juni 1870
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    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] he must have disobliged many men who deem themselves omnipotent in laying wires and “controlling their precincts.” When to this was added the indignation naturally aroused by his refusal to be a mere machine for the distribution of Federal “patronage,” one can readily understand that the canvass against him must have been long and [...]
[...] the rest of the community. This circumstance alone is sufficient to characterize the movement as an entirely different one from all those that culminate in strikes, or that aim merely at “getting twenty-five per cent. more wages for the same work.” If this latter were all that is aimed at, nothing would be easier than to demand it, and in case of [...]
[...] no monstrosity, that is not permitted, or, even more, applauded, acclaimed. A parrot, with outspread wings and beak bent down over the wearer's nose, surmounting a bonnet of scarlet crape, would be merely looked upon as an “idea" of happy audacity; and the insertion of a beetle, or a frog, or (who knows?) a fish between the black fangs of the beak would be [...]
[...] But one will suffice, for it could only exist in a country where to over. throw all rule had become a virtue. I allude to the “Salomé" of M. Re gnault. If it were the mere proof of a wager won, this extraordinary pic ture would certainly have a meaning, for it does prove that a man with [...]
[...] facturer, a brave and hardy soldier, a conscientious, though red-tapish offi cial. He likes discipline and order, and almost loves his king. Loyalty, with him, is not a mere principle, but a sentiment—an undemonstrative, old-fashioned sentinent. His kinsman and neighbor on the Ligurian coast is more of a republican, and is intellectually superior to his subalpine [...]
[...] forbear to accept your alternatives, one and all, as having the least rele vancy to our discussion. They are, in fact, grossly irrelevant to it. They would be relevant, perhaps, if I were the mere “moral reformer" you are disposed to make me appear; that is to say, if I were in truth looking forward to some perfect “state" of society, as you term it, in: [...]
[...] of any other. The power exerted by the law over marriage is never crea tive, but simply declarative. It does not ordain a marriage between A and B, but merely ratifies or records one, which stands exclusively in their unforced consent, in their spontaneous act. This is the only conceivable marriage between the parties, and this manifestly is altogether spiritual. [...]
[...] spective.” Giusti is quite well known to the author in question ; but his article, as it expressly states, undertook scarcely more than to make a mere “enume ration” of distinguished Italian writers. JAS. F. MELINE. NEw York, June 17, 1870. [...]
[...] difficult to qualify without using very unconventional terms. In this respect we may compare him to Catullus. Catullus is hideous where Ovid is merely voluptuous, but you may expurgate Catullus without making one awkward break or losing a single line of good verse; you cannot ex purgate Ovid without eliminating three-fourths of his best poetry. [...]
[...] ordinary hobble—for the word run were absurd in this connection—of translations from the French. And we think that any one who tries to make translation respectable, to make it something above mere booksel [...]
The nation10.10.1872
  • Datum
    Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 1872
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    New York, NY
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    New York, NY
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] some excuse for South Carolinians who distrust the proffered re lief, and whose failure to work against Moses will mean something different from mere hatred of Yankees, though of this latter there is too much. One would have supposed that the dividing of the negro vote would alone seem a political good of such magnitude as [...]
[...] it is well understood that in making his canvass for a senatorship last autumn he had the assistance of money from the very men whom he was professing to attack. However, though this may be a mere picturesque and interesting aspect of his case, there is no aspect of it which ought not to make the idea of the Republican managers' [...]
[...] denly into a great commercial capital and run money down one eighth or one-half per cent., and send stocks up five or ten per cent., by his mere fiat, could hardly be imagined. It is a system worthy only of Ispahan or Constantinople. The present scandal is aggra vated by the rumor that the Secretary means to exercise discretion [...]
[...] diately paid out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated. The Congressional apology that has been put forth for the law is substantially this: We are not knaves, but merely an assemblage of dupes, with the exception of our brother, the Honorable Mr. Cessna, who is a knave and not a fool. We are too much engaged in [...]
[...] contract from $26,500 a year to $30,000. In a legal sense, the first and second provisions were measures looking towards the legisla tive administration of justice; the third was a mere gratuity. In his method for administering this legislative justice, Mr. Chor [...]
[...] “manoeuvres" were little else than formal and meaningless marches to and fro over a small area on a bare plain. “Sham fights,” too, when resorted to, were mere theatrical engagements, intended to amuse the spectators. About six years ago it was discovered that [...]
[...] by the remarks of our distinguished contemporary. Or, rather, this is part of it. Looking with scorn and contempt on the Woman Movement, no merely earthly power could make us publish more than the first and last [...]
[...] was required of the penitent sinner to obtain pardon of his sins. The sums set down in it were evidently only a portion of the penalty imposed, and to us it bears internal evidence of being merely a list of the ſees which the officials were authorized to charge for expediting the letters which recorded the pardon previously granted or sold. - [...]
[...] wisdom of society upon the subject: the machinery of arrest, trial, im prisonment; the methods which, as not thinking men only, but the most superficial readers of statistics perceive, exercise at the best a merely re straining influence upon the criminal, and have hardly less tendency to teach crime to the young offenders than to check it in the adult. Mr. Brace de [...]
[...] acts, yet in the previous volume it occupied 16 pages; and we are unwill ing to admit that all movements are “simple,” or sufficiently explained in anatomical works. Indeed, the mere sequence of action in ordinary locomo tion is still under investigation, both in Germany and America, while the many and varied combinations of muscular action to effect these and other [...]
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