Literary World, Volumes 33-34

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1902

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Page 29 - Act, except as below provided, shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, either by hand or by the aid of any kind of typesetting machine, or from plates made within the limits of the United States...
Page 190 - O gentlemen, the time of life is short ! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Page 97 - No person shall maintain an action for the infringement of his copyright unless he shall give notice thereof by inserting in the several copies of every edition published, on the title-page, or the page immediately following, if it be a book...
Page 136 - It presents in an inexpen[sive form, considering its great amount of matter, with freshness, [owing to its weekly issue, and with a satisfactory completeness...
Page 56 - A great author, gentlemen, is not one who merely has a copia verborum, whether in p'rose or verse, and can, as it were, turn on at his will any number of splendid phrases and swelling sentences ; but he is one who has something to say and knows how to say it.
Page 97 - The history of American trails and carries in colonial times ; of paths, roads, and highways in our national beginnings ; and of our great lake, river, and railroad traffic in later times is and has been of the first importance in our social and political history. Mr. Hulbert has shown himself abundantly able to investigate the subject and put in good form theresults of his labors.
Page 56 - ... as such, any great depth of thought, or breadth of view, or philosophy, or sagacity, or knowledge of human nature, or experience of human life, though these additional gifts he may have, and the more he has of them the greater he is; but I ascribe to him, as his characteristic ift, in a large sense the faculty of Expression. He is master of the twofold Logos, the thought and the word, distinct, but inseparable from each other.
Page 170 - VOLUME [still maintains the high standard of literary excellence which has| [characterized it from the beginning. It presents in an...
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