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I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed....

Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy,....

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government....

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to....

Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments....

Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence! — fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting....

Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they....

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or....

In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great....