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...President, Mr. Hoover in this letter to Senator Borah reaches the sublimest height of epistolary humbuggery ever attained by man. [Laughter...
...than conquerors." And yet in the history of the world's great battles he learns that there is, after all, something beyond conquest. A great military here is messured not merely by the completeness of his victory, but by the mercy and magnamity with which he uses it. The sublimest moment in Grant's career was not his victory over Lee, but the great-hearted sympathy for his fee which he showed afterward; there was conquest in the fearful wreck and destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, but there was more than conquest in the act of the captain...
...earlier poetry was written. His poetry was essentially the product of English soil, it showed the resolute, energetic spirit of the author, and his pure, simple life. However much his poetry lacked in sense of humor or proportion, it shows the most sympathetic interpretation of nature and the sublimest imagination. His ambition was to be a teacher, and that he has certainly succeeded in being. Not only is his position assigned high in the roll of English fame, but he has become the teacher of teachers, and no one more than he can open to all minds the beauties...
...also true that the modern languages have great and beautiful literatures that are well worth studying and enjoying. The classics on their part have the broader claim of being the foundation on which all that has followed has been built. They are full of the greatest beauties, the sublimest thoughts that have ever been recorded. How to choose between the classics and modern languages becomes a hard question. To abandon either entirely for the other is unquestionably wrong. To devote considerable time to the study and appreciation of them both is, it seems to us, the happy mean...
...languages seem to aim chiefly at memorizing a vast number of words, rather than becoming familiar with the thoughts of the men who used these words as vehicles. It is too much like the school-boy fashion of memorizing the words of two hundred lines per day of the sublimest passages in Virgil, too much like what the poet Juvenal speaks of, who recited his verses standing on one foot. Such dexterity at the expense of profundity is of little...