Things by their right names; by a person without a name. By the author of 'Plain sense'.

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Page 78 - ... pig-headed. AMELIA Mary Belle! KNOX I shall take my leave of you. MARY You are sulking now. KNOX (to AMELIA) Madam, have I your permission to withdraw? AMELIA Nothing of the sort. You will stay here till Walter comes back. KNOX Ladies. I will not consent to be treated like a naughty schoolboy. Do you know who I am? Do you know that I am the apostolic successor of Cuvier, the great naturalist? Do you know that, although I am a comparatively young man, much of my work is already immortal? Do you...
Page 136 - ... Violet," said he, gently ; " what is to be, is to be ; you have not lost your old courage ! Only let us be together while we can." " Oh, my love, my love ! " she suddenly cried, taking his hand in both of hers, and looking up to him with her piteous, tear-dimmed eyes, " we will always be together ! What is it that you say ? — what is it that you mean ? Not that you are going away without me ? I have courage for anything but that. It does not matter what comes, only that I must go with you —...
Page 148 - ... will be an education, by the process of accumulating a sufficient number of semester hours of credit to entitle him to the Bachelor's degree. He did not originate our quantitative theory of culture. He takes it as he finds it, and often gets more out of it than its architects had any right to expect. He is not so much to be blamed as to be pitied, if he makes bad choices under the elective system, and frequently falls a victim to the specious philosophy of "getting by.
Page 3 - I could do this in periodical essays, in weekly sermons, in evening lectures, in a poem, a play, a pamphlet, all...

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