Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...could stand it no longer. My mind was tired, my memory overtaxed. With one last attempt to master my author's dullness, I yielded to him and retired from the contest exhausted. To invigorate myself I turned to De Quincey. I chanced to take up the volume on Murder, and tried the story of the murderer Johnson. The first few pages were interesting. The interest developed. Before I had read much farther I was conscious of nothing but the meaning of the printed words before...
...this we may get a very good and quite an extensive view of the surrounding country. Beyond the cemetery we have a choice of two pleasures, of which it may be said that "either is preferable," If we go straight ahead we soon pass the scene of the Carlton murder, which is on the left, about a quarter or half a mile past one cemetery. Thence we pass on to Watertown and beyond Watertown to the famous and beautiful Newtons. If, after leaving the cemetery, we take our first opportunity of making a slight turn to the right, we will...
...said Mr. Walker. "If the argument that common school education is a preventive of crime and poverty is a good one, will some one tell me why a college education is not better? The expensive crimes to a community are what may be termed crimes of intelligence; not murder and beastliness, but forgery and burglary on sound chemical, mechanical, and scientific principles. It is a clear proposition of republican government that the greater the number of the inhabitants who are intellectually cultivated the greater the safety of the State. I believe that promotion should be not the reward of industry...
...will be due in Sever 3 today at 2 o'clock. Subjects: A Summary of one of the following works; Romeo and Juliet; Othello; King Lear; Lvanhoe; Matthew Arnold's Essay on the Function of Criticism; Burke's speech on Conciliation with America; Webster's speech in the White Murder Trial. Members of the advanced section need not hand in this theme before Dec. 20. They will kindly leave it at 30 Grays Hall...
...Sever 3 on Thursday, Dec. 13, at 2 o'clock. Subjects: A Summary of one of the follow-works: Romeo and Juliet; Othello; King Lear; Ivanhoe; Matthew Arnold's Essay on the Function of Criticism; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Webster's Speech in the White Murder Trial...