… de Voltaire to his name and who, because of his protean accomplishments as a man of letters, as historian, dramatist, … yours. In fact, your Enlightenment colleagues are rarely studied these days. Just examine any college or university … being unfair? Though fairness was never one of your strong points. To what metaphysics, more specifically, do you …
… found her there and exclaimed, “Miss Coralee, honey, how come you eatin’ that dry old stuff?” And then she would … and Penny after you’re gone. Grandmother told us before she died.” “I never heard that.” “Well, she said so, Mama. You … in to eat. Most of my friends have moved away. Some have died. . . .” He listened to her with his bushy eyebrows …
… attempt to defend against it. Our courses had already become a kind of aesthetic opiate, to be elected in the spare … to the biography of its author. We have made exhaustive studies of the anthropological mysteries which lie behind … beyond dogmatic and revealed religion, there is no other. 260-266 By Stuart Gerry Brown …
… even answer their letter, then only to turn them down, and comment privately in his journal, “The fact is I am a … even the Minnesota prairie, similar historical botanical studies of these areas have recently been made or are now … until 1871 that botanists rediscovered and named it. (Eaton points out that had Thoreau only reported his discovery, …
Profiles
… the president’s life, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1926). Though that book alone was a cumbersome task, Sandburg also agreed during this time to compile the American Songbag (1928), a collection of nearly …
Essays
… of microbiology at the University of Tennessee, studies microbes that have absurdly long lifespans. Many of … of how long we’d been traveling. All the usual reference points of existence—light, a horizon line, sky—were gone. … stayed in her cave for eighty-eight days, and Senni went 126 days before emerging. When Laures came out, on March 12, …