Word: matter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other side, Buchner and the materialists seem not to have progressed beyond the Chinese, of three thousand years before Christ, who recognized in the universe two elements, one active, one inert, - force and matter; but perhaps came nearer the truth than our German contemporaries in recognizing these elements as divine intelligences rather than dead and aimless. The business of science is, indeed, analysis. It returns us elements for the wholes we give it. The danger is lest we lose the former, so much the more important. "The sense of the glory of the heavens is worth more than the physicist...
...University is rapidly progressing. It is to contain one hundred and twenty large heliotypes of the college, etc.; many are now ready, and are very successful. Some of the old engravings of the last century are very interesting, and the four hundred and fifty pages or more of reading matter it is to contain, as poems, essays, historical and otherwise, on the College, will render it a valuable work...
...this day Carl has never discovered what was the matter with the agitated Senior who rushed in one Class-Day evening, and, after wildly ordering a claret julep and a mint squills, drank seven glasses of brandy in succession, and forgot to, wait for the change. But I was soon startled by hearing a tremendous clicking, and there came over the line of the C. T. Co. the following message, with remarkably little space between the dots...
...scene opens in Venice, of which he has before written so beautifully. Bret Harte is redivivus in a kind of poetry new to him, but his style is unmistakable. The little poem, "Fair and Fifteen," is short and sensuous, but good. Robert Dale Owen contributes some good reading matter, while the other parts of the magazine are ably sustained...
...friend is certainly taking too tragic a view of the matter. He apparently fears that Decoration Day will rouse bitter and revengeful thoughts in the minds of the people who throng the streets to witness its yearly celebration. It needs very little knowledge of human nature to perceive that the majority of the people who appear on the streets that day come out simply and solely to enjoy themselves...