Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which I hold with others. I make no attempt to reply to that article, because the writer, against whom it was particularly directed, has already answered it; and, indeed, the statement might seem to contain fit replies in themselves. My purpose is only to confess myself a believer in sentiment, and to give a few reasons for clinging to something which has at least the approval of some former times, and which, I had thought, was beginning to prevail in our own. Indeed, it is for this reason that I have never before obtruded upon you my opinions in regard...
...pluck the eyes of Sentiment...
...above lines occurred to my mind after reading the article entitled "Sentiment in the Magenta," which appeared in the last Advocate. The impression first made upon me was that of astonishment, which soon gave way to feelings of regret that the sentiments expressed in the above-mentioned article should exist among Harvard men. How can we wonder at the rapid progress of irreverence among young Americans! With what justice can we complain of the ignorant foreign population, by whose voice our great cities are governed, when our educated young men give utterance to such thoughts...
...Sentiment is one of the strongest incentives to patriotism. A nation that has no past is to be much pitied, but a nation that has great men and glorious deeds to look back to, and yet wilfully turns its face the other way, - that nation, indeed, is in want of speedy assistance. Athens and Rome neglected the examples and memory of their ancestors, and fell. Let us hope that the American republic, upon which so much depends, and to which so many look with anxious hope, will not follow in their footsteps; for, if she does, the result is certain...
...decision of the colleges, assembled in convention at Hartford, to hold their first annual literary contest in the city of New York will strike the moral sentiment of the country with surprise. Good men everywhere will view the decision with sorrow and mortification. There is but one conclusion possible in the case. The college convention was captured by the vile emissaries of Tammany. We need not name the methods that were probably employed to procure the bringing of innocent college boys within reach of those unmentionable influences in the great metropolis. The ways of Tammany are dark, and its appliances...