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SCENE: FORENSICS. - PERMIXTUS (reading). And it is to be observed that in this country large fortunes seldom remain in the hands of one person for more than a single generation. (Division coincide with their feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...person can hardly walk through the older part of Boston without passing some spot or building which is closely associated with Revolutionary times. Commerce has destroyed many other places of equal note, and even these are passing away before the demands of trade. The utilitarian spirit of the times, not content with destroying the houses in which some of our forefathers lived, reaches out with an eager hand even toward their last resting-place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT HOME. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...description of a place, imagination pictures it much more correctly if it has been seen. So when we endeavor to recollect what the causes of any particular event are, we are much more successful if the spot where the event occurred has been visited; and there are no person who has better opportunities for this or who would derive more benefit from it than the student. A few hours spent in such a way is certainly more profitable than a continual "dropping in" at some popular resort. Foreigners are wont to remark that America has no places of historic interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT HOME. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...person referred to - not by name - has since made it clear to us that we did him an injustice in charging him with being the author of the objectionable paragraph in the Advertiser, on which we commented. We are sorry for our mistake, and can only say, in excuse, that we had strong reasons to suppose we were right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...almost impossible to make sure of there being smooth ice, but might not this trouble be removed by the energetic C. T. C. by means of a wire run up to a convenient station near the Pond from which information might be sent by some competent person? and did we all know how near good skating is to be found I think more of us would improve the opportunity; for what is much pleasanter, after all, than skating (not alone) by moonlight when the stars are reflected in the ice at our feet and the distant house-lights suggest warm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COMING SEASON. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

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