Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pardon me for reviving that threadbare subject of lights in the library. My only excuse is that of treating the question from a new point of view. It is, I believe, admitted beyond all doubt that the project of lighting the library by electricity is feasible. Two years ago, if I mistake not, money was subscribed, and we were just on the point of gaining our longed-for lights, when the authorities for some unknown reason gave up the idea and the money was returned. I think I am not wrong in these assertions, This being the case, the only...
...that competition will work everything out in time. The poor are not suffering for their own vices and sins, but for ours. We are responsible, and it is the duty of each of us to help where we can. It is true that the statistics of Political Economy are beyond our control, but the dynamics are in our power. As Mill said, the moral forces of Political Economy are now coming to the front...
...different regions of the spectrum of the corona at the spectrum of the corona at the same time, which will be wholly in the green and yellow parts of the spectrum. Other apparatus will take photographs of the blue region and the ultra-violet, or that which it is beyond the power of the eye to perceive. The plates will not be developed at Willows but they will be brought out leisurely either at Cambridge or at Southern California where the party is to go, after the eclipse is over, to work for the benefit of the University of California...
...often entertaining, but not valuable. For no hundred best books can be picked out. Eight, or six, or four,- the books that every cultured man must know, are easily selected. They cannot be read for mere amusement; rather for delight, a delight that grows steadily with time and study. Beyond these very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest and widest culture had recently sent to him his own "hundred best." Twenty, Prof. Norton...
Each body, then, must make out his own list as he goes. But at the outset, a man may safely take those which the whole world has decisively stamped as the best. These would be Homer, Virgil, aeschylus, and Sophocles and. beyond all doubt, Aristophanes; Lucre tires, and Plato. In the middle ages, the Divine Comedy which has most perfectly expressed their thought and their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great...