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...fierceness of temper, nourished in the wild, melancholy Calabrian hills, and failing to see in them anything that was not gross and terrible. No. 26, the city on the hill with snow-capped mountains rising over it, serves indeed as the recorded defect of mediaeval landscape; but it is vain to seek for any expression of refined perception, on the part of the painter, or of either beauty or character in the rendering of mountain, cloud, or tree. The great cartoon of Kaulbach, almost impressive at first sight, appears, after but a brief examination, too mechanical for the work...
...world were vain...
...many reasons it would be a vain hope to expect to see a majority of a legislative body composed of the wisest men in the country. Colleges, however, have a power almost as great as that of the legislatures, although it has not yet been fully exercised. Instruction might be given every year on political economy and kindred subjects, which would make its principles almost as common and as well known to the voters of the country as the changes of the moon are. To exercise this power seems to be not only a privilege but the duty of every...
...ever doomed to find his labor vain...
Alas! alas! Their wishes were in vain...