Word: essays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MARQUAND, the winner of the first essay prize on "Utilitarianism" at the literary contest in New York, was stroke of the Princeton crew at the last intercollegiate regatta...
...pretend to greater ability and ingenuity than I possess, let me declare at once that the conception of what I am about to present was not wholly original with me. Great men suggested the idea, and great moralists have done much to encourage it. De Quincy has written an essay on "Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts." "The Prayse of Ignorance" was one of Tom Hood's "Whims...
...want to have by us, and in our own libraries, yet are unable to pay the outrageous prices asked for them. It makes little difference if I read Lamb in full Russia, blue and gold, or the abominable yellow cover; in point of fact, one enjoys a novel or essay quite as much when the cover can be turned back and the book rather familiarly used. The imposing libraries that impart an air of wonderful erudition to the regal house of many a merchant, do their only duty in doing as much as this. Good little boys in story-books...
AMONG recent publications, we feel called upon to notice "An Essay on Human Understanding," by a certain Locke, of England. The book is evidently to be taken as an extravaganza or philosophical romance, and is designed, by a pleasing species of reductio ad absurdum, to ridicule the philosophers who were opposed to Descartes. Locke's method was probably suggested by the "Historic Doubts" of Whately, and his satire is more complete, if possible, than that of the celebrated divine. By fully presenting and amusingly overstating a system of philosophy he completely undermines the edifice he is supposed to be rearing...
PROFESSOR E. S. MORSE, of Salem, delivered the annual lecture before the Harvard Natural History Society, on Thursday evening. The subject of his entertaining essay, the "Evolution of Organic Beings," was handled in a masterly way. To the critical student his evidence and details were of great interest, while to the less scientific his graphic illustrations of birds, reptiles, and mollusks awakened pleasant associations of their earliest ancestors. Professor Morse is a wonderful artist, and the resemblance between an embryo robin and turtle, as drawn on the blackboard, called forth loud applause. The attendance was large, and the only drawback...