1875

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In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago.

Christina Rossetti

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Topic

Winter Seasons

Author

Christina Rossetti

Source

In the Bleak Mid-Winter

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rossetti, Christina. "A Christmas Carol." Scribner's Monthly, 1872, I. 1.

Current Citation

Rossetti, Christina. "A Christmas Carol." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001, I. 1.

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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

God and the Bible

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Topic

Intellectual history Progress

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

God and the Bible

Language

English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Arnold, Matthew. God and the Bible. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1875.

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The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

C.F. Forbes

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Topic

Fashion Clothing

Speaker

C.F. Forbes

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Letters and Social Aims

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Forbes, C. F. Quoted in Letters and Social Aims, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. James R. Osgood, 1875.

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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Susan B. Anthony

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Topic

Marriage Men and women

Author

Susan B. Anthony

Source

Social Purity

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Anthony, Susan B. "Social Purity." Dime lecture course. 14 Mar. 1875, Grand Opera House, Chicago, IL, USA.

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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

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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