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...PERRY'S last lecture was on Dr. Samuel Johnson. The works he spoke of were the Dictionary, the "Vanity of Human Wishes," the "Rambler," and the "Lives of the Poets...
...human passions: light them, and they burn...
...human life and actions turn to ashes...
Does any one suppose that the person reading a marked book is impressed by the deep insight into human nature manifested by the marker! "O, no!" says Jones, who habitually marks the fine (?) parts of a book because he never wrote anything readable in his life, "but it calls attention to the beautiful passages." So it does, but only for a moment; and the reader wonders "what idiot marked that, as if I could n't find out the fine bits for myself...
THERE of the successful competitors for Bowdoin prizes have read their dissertations in public, to audiences which were large for Harvard College. Mr. W. A. Smith's essay on "The Essential Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes" was more interesting than would be expected from the nature of the subject; yet those very qualities which made it interesting detracted from its merit as an essay; it contained too many illustrations and anecdotes. On the other hand, its form was too scientific for the general reader, and its theory was too palpably modelled after that of Mr. Herbert...