...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ife of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not ph... ...ork. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing impor tant to communic... ...tten in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature. They had not learned the nobler dialects of Greece and Rome, bu... ...were waste pa per to them, and they prized instead a cheap contem porary literature. But when the several nations of Eu rope had acquired distinct ... ...tten lan guages of their own, sufficient for the purposes of their rising literatures, then first learning revived, and schol ars were enabled to di... ...e is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of Califor nia and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.— of Georgia or of Massach...