Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...possible, in view of the ideas which then obtained, that we might have affected the antique, and formed our citizens in the mould of Sparta or of Rome, instead of making French citizens, imbued with the principles of modern civilization...
THOSE interested in the Gray Heliotypes will be glad to hear that there will be an opening of about fifty new subjects in a fortnight or less at the University Bookstore. The subjects of the heliotypes have been carefully selected by Mr. Osgood, and, though most of them are modern (Toschi's engravings after Correggio, and others after Titian and Raphael), there will be found Durer's "Life of the Virgin" and probably the whole of Blake...
...feel just now in a complaining mood, let us leave the excellences, and consider some of the defects in the modern process of book-making, - defects which in the productions of some publishers are only too prominent...
...colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of taste. Better the old-fashioned, sober, hog-skin cover than the flash and flimsy bindings of some of our modern books...
...very entertaining pamphlet, being sometimes highly ludicrous at places where "the laugh" was hardly intended to "come in" by the author. It is written from the antediluvian-proslavery point of view. Unparalleled and impossible virtues are invented for the past, and every exceptional case of transgression in modern times dragged into comparison with a shadowy ideal of Mr. Josselyn's own; when this portion of his stock in trade has become exhausted, he resorts to calling good things by bad names, which does quite as well. Strengthened by these advantages, he has succeeded, within the narrow compass of some seven...