Pulpit Critique of Unnamed Sermons Draws Fire
The review laments sermons that avoid current events and moral critique, praising a bold preacher while criticizing superficial language. It notes a dearth of emotion in some sermons and mocks a Scots preacher’s style as eighteenth‑century formal, urging suppression in his parish.
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Heaven
Earth
Hell
Church of England
Luther
Maurice
Scotch Presbyterian Church
Jerusalem
Herod
Goethe's Minor Poems reviewed as a helpful English guide
Dr Seiss presents Goethe's short poems in chronological order with notes and a general introduction. The volume assembles cycles to aid memory of the poet life and times, emphasizing date references and the link between life and poetry.
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Seiss
Goethe
Seles
Goethe in a Poet Scientist Link in Seiss Introduction
The introduction to Seiss’s selection of poems notes Goethe’s blend of philosophic discernment and artistic skill aiding scientific insight. It highlights Goethe’s reliance on external conditions, the impact of knowledge on imaginative reach, and the unity of nature, politics, and art in his smaller poems. The piece laments missing songs from the Second Faust and questions Dr Seiss’s omission of certain works.
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Goethe
Dr. Seiss
Seiss
Faust
Dr. Selss
An American View of England in The Fortnightly Review
A reviewer highlights an American visitor's impressions of England praising public opinion speed, the Plimsoll incident, and law courts. The piece contrasts sectarian and nonsectarian schooling, railways, and civil service with debates on taxation, surplus use, and local taxation including a radical Poor Law abolition proposal.
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England
America
Plimsoll
United States
Crown
Lords
Commons
Congress
Rome
Jupiter
Chuch
Cassandra Greg
Greg
France
Germany
W. W. Edwards
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Victoria
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Albert M. Sewss
Trinity College
Dublin
University of Dublin
Triibuer
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