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"In an old town on the coast of New England there is a fine avenue of elms reaching from the shore in the centre of the town, back to a hill which lies on the outskirts of the town. In the slope of this hill, practically on the axis of...
There can be little doubt of the fact that the original mistake was made in organizing the Batteries as a part of the Connecticut National Guard; there can be little doubt of the futility of the whole mobilization of the militia, and of the total inadequacy of the militia system...
The use of one's memory as a means instead of an end is a faculty--that is rarely used to qualify the accuracy of a person's memory per se. We are wont to esteem highly and without discrimination those whose powers of recollection are well nigh faultless, and...
Isolated bits of knowledge constitute our fuel for thought, but the product of our thinking capacity will have little individual worth unless we learn to generalize our specific experiences and consign to memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak...
Mrs. Gardner's residence, as is well known, is built in the style of the Venetian Renaissance palace, and incorporates many original structural details which have been brought over from Italy. The central court, protected by a sky-light, is a marvellous complex of floral color and fragrance.