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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with hymns and psalms to the gods, some of the psalms having passages strikingly similar to the Biblical psalms. The theological system, with its greater gods and its demons, can be pretty thoroughly made out. In the sciences, especially mathematics and astronomy, considerable progress was made. Numerous astronomical reports exist. There are also writings showing the beginning of grammar, legicograhy, medicine, botany, zoology and geology. The enormous number of books relating to the social and private life of the people is reserved for the next lecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Babylonian Books. | 3/30/1889 | See Source »

VIII. No sufficient reasons exist for declaring trusts illegal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 3/30/1889 | See Source »

...possess a peculiar interest to those interested in the development of spoken language. English, as spoken in America is not characterized by the strongly marked dialects which are observed in the speech of the people in the different parts of England, and yet, in the speech of Americans there exist differences, oftentimes as slight as the mere variation in the pronunciation of some words, which indicate the existence in a more or less advanced stage, of some development of distinct dialects in the spoken language of our country. The dialect stories which have been published in the magazines have done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American Dialect Society. | 3/18/1889 | See Source »

German literature of today is in harmony with the idea that the government should exist to perfect the individual rather than the state, and hence we may say that German literature is in opposition to German government. The lecturer then briefly sketched the history of Germany, showing how after the thirty pear's war it was seen that strong bonds of unison among the different principalities could only be maintained by allowing the individual more freedom of thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Francke's Lecture. | 3/7/1889 | See Source »

...State management has failed under more favorable conditions than would exist in the United States, i. e., in France and in Italy.- Hadley, ch. X and xiii; The Nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 2/25/1889 | See Source »

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