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Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men.

James Bryce

The American Commonwealth

On the American Presidency.

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Topic

American Presidency American politics

Author

James Bryce

Source

The American Commonwealth

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth. Vol. 1, London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, ch. 8.

A man who entertains in his mind any political doctrine, except as a means of improving the condition of his fellows, I regard as a political intriguer, a charlatan, and a conjuror.

Anthony Trollope

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Topic

Political ideology Politics

Author

Anthony Trollope

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1883, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Trollope, Anthony. "An Autobiography." An Autobiography and Other Writings, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 16.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey, but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey

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Topic

Travel Man and nature

Author

William Hazlitt

Source

On Going on a Journey Table Talk (Hazlitt)

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

John Burroughs

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Topic

Learning from nature Nature

Author

John Burroughs

Genre

Nature writing

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Current Citation

Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Syracuse University Press, 2006.

In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense... And research is always incomplete.

Mark Pattison

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Topic

Research

Author

Mark Pattison

Language

English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Pattison, Mark. Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875, ch. 10.

The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time.

Augustus Welby Pugin

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Augustus Welby Pugin

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Pugin, Augustus Welby. True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture. J. Weale, 1841.

The Forgotten Man... Delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... But he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay... Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

William Graham Sumner

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Topic

The forgotten man Middle class

Speaker

William Graham Sumner

Source

The Forgotten Man

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Sumner, William Graham. "The Forgotten Man." 30 Jan. 1883, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA. Lecture.