Word: nineteenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy for Englishmen and Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century," continued Professor Walz, "to do justice to this phenomenon in the world of letters; it had been difficult for Goethe's own countrymen. Whatever has been urged against Goethe,--his supposed lack of moralty, his irreligious, his coldness and selfishness, his disregard of others, his inconstancy,--you may find it all in the works of Borne and Wolfgang Menxel and in other German writers preceding them...
...nineteenth century, the Hapsburgs, in burgs, in procession of northern Italy, were engaged in putting down the political aspirations of the rest of the peninsula. In 1903 Francis Joseph vetoed a papal election, exercising the prerogative which his predecessors, the Holy-Roman emperors had claimed a thousand years before...
Professor C. T. Copeland '82, now Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, for the first time has joined the roll of the teaching staff of University Extension, and this year will give his lectures, readings, and conferences on "Nineteenth Century English Literature...
...large number of significant books. Notable among these works is a translation of the works of Saxo Grammaticus, a study of Michael Drayton, and particularly a distinguished work in four volumes on the history of English literature from the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth...
...that the combined proofs of the expedition will satisfy the most skeptical or most prejudiced minds. The chemists have left no stone untreated and have found that the deposits and corrosions of several centuries clearly differentiate the stonework of the monastery from the later structures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which were built around the venerable tower of the great mother-pile. Corroborative evidence, if it were necessary, can be produced from Cambridge, which was probably at that time an important centre of learning, though it suffered many vicissitudes in its later history (see index under "Business School circular...