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...they mean?" Irresistibly the mind of the Victorian runs back to that first love affair of David Copperfield's, when Miss Shepherd, whom the Misses Nettingall outrageously stood in the stocks for turning in her toes, Miss Shepherd to whom as a token of affection he gave twelve Brazil nuts, "difficult to pack into a parcel of any regular shape; hard to crack even in room doors... and oily when cracked," was mistress of his heart. "At home, in my own room," David writes, "I am sometimes moved to cry out, 'Oh, Miss Shepherd!' in a transport of love...
...Manoel de Oliveira Lima, Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil to Belgium, delivered an address in Emerson D last evening on "The Independence of Latin America, and its Evolution in the Nineteenth Century." Dr. Lima discussed the two principal forms of thought and action, in which the movement for freedom has proceeded in the more southerly countries of this hemisphere. The one is reactionary, having Napoleon for its prototype, and the other is liberal, being formed after the example of Washington...
...Lima is just finishing a tour of the United States, one object of which is to obtain an intimate view of the character of our leading American universities, with the purpose of presenting this view in book from to the people of Brazil...
...Manoel de Oliveira Lima, Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil to Belgium, will lecture in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock on "The Independence of Latin America, and its Evolution in the Nineteenth Century." The lecture, which will be open to the public, will be delivered in English, and affords an unusual opportunity to hear a gifted speaker, well known in literary as well as in diplomatic circles, discuss a topic of steadily increasing interest and importance...
...Lecture. "The Independence of Latin America and its Evolution in the Nineteenth Century", by Dr. Manoel de Oliveira Lima, Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil at Brussels, in Emerson...