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everything and remains certain of nothing
The summary of my suggestion would be, therefore, that while the more the rich and tangled jungle of the Shaksperean area is travers'd and studied, and the more baffled and mix'd, as so far appears, becomes the exploring student (who at last surmises everything, and remains certain of nothing,) it is possible a future age of criticism, diving deeper, mapping the land and lines freer, completer than hitherto, may discover in the plays named the scientific (Baconian?) inauguration of modern democracy—furnishing realistic and first-class artistic portraitures of the mediaeval world, the feudal personalities, institutes, in their morbid accumulations, deposits, upon politics and sociology,—may penetrate to that hard-pan, far down and back of the ostent of to-day, on which (and on which only) the progressism of the last two centuries has built this Democracy which now hold's secure lodgment over the whole civilized world.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

editorial and reportorial corps of newspaper
There are to-day connected with the editorial and reportorial corps of newspaper establishments men of the highest culture and most unimpeachable morality, who are living on the most limited stipends, martyrs to the work to which they feel themselves called.
— from The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

Etruscan and Roman change of nomenclature
Etruscans , their cities remain free until the days of Sulla, 20 ; their analogy with Freemasons, 34 , 35 ; their tongue remains a riddle, 36 ; their sculpture derives more force from the absence of literature, 37 - 40 ; analogy of Etruscan and Roman change of nomenclature with English and Norman, 43 , 44 ; Christian and modern character of their sculpture, 44 , 45 F Felimna , Avle, Etruscan tomb of, 42 , 43 , 197 Ferentinum (Ferentino), whether a Thirty-city, 186 , 187 , 188 ; its position, 188 ; its walls and gateways, 189 - 192 , 202 ; monument of Aulus Quinctilius at, 193 ; question as to the date of its walls, 194 et seq.
— from Studies of Travel: Italy by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

even at really committing ourselves not
We balk even at really committing ourselves not to worry.
— from How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher


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