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...became prosperous, he became also a reader and collector of precious books, until his library numbered five thousand volumes, and was described by Mr. Robert C. Winthrop as the most valuable library of English books with which he was acquainted. Before the death of Mr. Dowse, he conveyed this library, gathered with infinite care, to the Massachusetts Historical Society, thus becoming at that time its chief benefactor. His executors, authorized by his will to distribute the residue of his estate for "literary, scientific, and charitable purposes", conveyed to the City of Cambridge $10,000 on condition that $600 a year...
...branch of science, there to wallow for a year and to drag down by his incompetence--for who is not incompetent when set to that most hopeless of all tasks, working at something which for him is utterly futile?--to drag down by his incompetence, I say, the few precious students who would else do well because that subject is their special interest and acknowledged vocation...
...negro is inferior, and we must give him all the education that he can take. We must suppress lynching, because it is an acknowledgment that we, with all our machinery of government, are not ready to apply to the negroes those principles of justice which are our most precious heritage...
...Greek legend, too, might be reconstructed on this surmise. A stray gate or barn door, with its precious freight, might have traveled even further, and carried to the land of the Hellenes their fabled ancestors. Deucalion and Pyrrha...
...action catches the fire from the flame of a royalist plot, which having been stamped out in France has thrown a few sparks across the Atlantic. These may have smouldered for some time but when we take up the story they have started a fence blaze around a precious paper held by a gentleman as perfectly eccentric as any we have met with in many moons. It is he, this "unspeakable gentleman", who for a day and a night fights the world, his son, Fate, and the reader, with the meagre assistance of rum, Madeirs, and a negro servant...