| 单词 | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| 例句 | Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that “a great man represents a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists of his being there.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Its environment of sharp thinking and bonhomie—the walnut paneling, the sherry cart once owned by Oliver Wendell Holmes—delighted Venkatesh. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The poem “One Hoss Shay,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, has stayed with me my whole life. The Nobel-Winning Economist Who Wants You to Read More Fiction 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z I was reminded of an experience Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. had on ether, in which he discovered, and managed to write down, “the one great truth which underlies all human experience.” How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Near the novel’s end, Oliver Wendell Holmes offers this memorable farewell to Christina: Review | If poets could solve a crime . . . 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z We also have a biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a novel about white supremacy and another based on a real-life art forgery, and an immigrant’s study of the forces driving global migration today. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z As Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to a friend, about his pleasure in writing the Buck decision, “Sooner or later one gets a chance to say what one thinks.” The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes was on the Court when the case was tried and wrote the majority opinion. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Budiansky’s “Oliver Wendell Holmes” is a lively, accessible book, retelling the story of its subject’s life and work for a generation that knows Holmes was important but not why. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Her lodestar is Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the Supreme Court justice who in a famous dissent wrote, “Every idea is an incitement,” and meant it in a good way. Training Tomorrow’s Newshounds 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z In 1927, the American eugenics movement got a boost when the revered Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes endorsed the forced sterilization of a supposedly "feeble minded white woman" from Virginia named Carrie Buck. 'The Case Against the Supreme Court' pushes for reforms 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Author Adam Cohen tells the story close-up, by drawing Buck, a doctor, a prominent eugenic scientist, a lawyer and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in detail. SCOTUS’ shameful eugenics history: “We don’t provide the kind of justice that we claim to in our society” 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Snaking among those and other works are the quartet’s fractured recitations of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.’s obscure fifth verse to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” What Is American Music? Three Classical Albums Offer Answers. 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes acknowledged that women brought something unique to healing, but he stopped short of endorsing women’s professional participation in his field. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z This year is a propitious time for Stephen Budiansky’s new biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Exactly a century ago, dissenting in the case of Abrams v. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s writings, speeches and opinions on freedom of expression. Local books: Everest, apples and fish 2010-08-16T23:47:00Z So said Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in 1918, when Americans were waging a fierce battle over the employment of young children. Attacks on Child Labor Laws Are a Dangerous Throwback to Social Darwinism 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Harvard Medical School, for example, voted in 2020 to rename an academic society named for Oliver Wendell Holmes. Philosopher, Slaver and, Now, Former Face of Trinity College Library 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z All this brings to mind Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' admonition about the role of the Supreme Court: "If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job." "He might be in jail": Political scientist rejects GOP claims that indictment helps Trump 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The Supreme Court granted baseball an antitrust exemption in the Federal League case when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that baseball was not interstate commerce but exhibitions exempt from antitrust laws. Justice Department: MLB antitrust exemption should be narrow 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Sometimes, Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.” Opinion | Four ways Congress could begin reversing its self-diminishment 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z John Jay, the nation’s first chief justice, appeared on a 1958 stamp, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. received a postal tribute in 1978. Late Justice Ginsburg to get ‘notorious’ honor on a 2023 U.S. postage stamp 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z More than a century ago, in another copyright case, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., said judges should be cautious where art was at issue. Warhol’s Images of Prince: Social Commentary or Copyright Infringement? 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. knew, it was not the role of the court to construct a great and good society. Supreme Court: ‘Leaving it to the people’ 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said the policeman had a constitutional right to be politically active but not to be a policeman. Opinion | Trying to protect students from a coach’s prayers did them no favors 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Supreme Court in a 1922 case involving the Federal League, when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a decision that baseball was not interstate commerce but exhibitions exempt from antitrust laws. Senators ask minor leaguers for information on MLB antitrust 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously described the institution as “nine scorpions in a bottle.” Opinion | For Justice Thomas, the Roberts court is more feud than family 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z “In 1850, Harvard’s medical school admitted three Black students but, after a group of white students and alumni objected, the school’s dean, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., expelled them,” it said. Harvard Details Its Ties to Slavery and Its Plans for Redress 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z For this, Obama drew from the former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who he quoted as saying, “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” Supreme Court nominee’s ’empathy’ is flashpoint for Senate 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z But she twice quoted a famous aphorism by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. from his 1881 book “The Common Law,” written two decades before he joined the Supreme Court. After Three Rounds, Judge Jackson Knows the Confirmation Playbook 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once had this to say about the relative nature of each individual’s rights: “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.” Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s sort of like the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote that the life of the law is not logic, it’s experience,” Jackson said. Four women on the Supreme Court would bring historic, near gender parity for institution long dominated by White men 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z If, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” mask-wearing is the cost of a respectful one, where we do unto others. Opinion | Where was Justice Neil Gorsuch’s mask? 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z About 99 years and seven months ago, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his colleagues issued a ruling that would shape professional baseball in the United States for the next century. A newly filed lawsuit is trying to upend baseball’s century-old status quo 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Even liberal Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes affirmed Debs’s conviction in an opinion he later regretted. 100 years ago, a president forgave his opponent’s alleged subversion 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society," he wrote, invoking former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Great Inheritors: How three families shielded their fortunes from taxes for generations 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z In an 8-to-1 decision, the Supreme Court agreed, with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously declaring, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Britney Spears, Carrie Buck and the awful history of controlling ‘unfit’ women 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s true that Jacobson has sometimes been exploited to support noxious public policies — Oliver Wendell Holmes cited it as precedent, for instance, in Buck vs. Column: Here's why Biden's vaccine mandate is right — and should stand up to legal challenges 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z When Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" in a Supreme Court ruling upholding Virginia's involuntary sterilization law, he was describing a poor White woman with no mental impairment. What the media gets wrong about red-state vaccine hesitancy 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Taxation is the price we pay for a civilized society, as Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. put it. Opinion | How Biden’s tax pledge undercuts his own initiatives 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z In 1905, the renowned Boston lawyer, Harvard professor and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote a dissenting opinion in Lochner v. Review | Why are our debates about rights so toxic? 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z “President Trump is not even close to the proverbial citizen in a crowded theater,” Raskin said on Day Three of the trial, citing Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous statement about the limits of free speech. ‘One down, 44 to go’: Inside the House impeachment team’s uphill battle For many who hold freedom of speech as a sacred right, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s 1919 dissenting opinion in Abrams v. Opinion | The Coup We Are Not Talking About 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The officer in question was future Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and his widely reported admonition, after another officer next to Lincoln was shot, was: “Get down, you fool!” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Capturing the content and context of the Capitol riot 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z A century ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. foretold our dilemma in one of his most famous opinions. Opinion | How do liberty and human rights survive the age of the Internet? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Few people enjoy paying taxes, but as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. reminded us, “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” Without More Enforcement, Tax Evasion Will Spread Like a Virus 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. invoked the First Amendment to dispute the legality of prosecuting five anarchists for distributing leaflets that called for workers to strike at munitions factories. The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z A quotation from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is etched on the wall at I.R.S. headquarters: “Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.” Opinion | The I.R.S. Is Outgunned 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes, who characterized Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose movement as one of “strenuous vagueness,” survived Antietam but might have expired straining to decipher Tuesday’s cascade of falsehoods, rudeness and syntactical tangles. Opinion | For the sake of the country, cancel the remaining debates 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z That accolade goes to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. -- who was 90 when he retired in 1932. Supreme Court: 10 little-known facts about the nation’s highest court 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Hoover picked the iconic progressive state justice from New York, Benjamin Cardozo who would expand further on the progressive, activist tenure of his predecessor, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Trump’s advantage: Fast but not furious 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z So society must rely on a judgment elaborated by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in his notion of a “marketplace of ideas.” Review | Why individuals, not governments, should safeguard free speech 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Bell decision, which allowed doctors to sterilize “mental defectives” without their consent because, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously wrote, “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: 16 Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z However, with “a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament,” as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, Roosevelt was willing to experiment. The Depression shattered and changed America — now history may rhyme 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z When Hallowell finally died in 1914, his close friend and compatriot Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. called him “the most generously gallant spirit, and I don’t know but the greatest soul I ever knew.” Perspective | From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Wade is, to borrow Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s phrase, “a brooding omnipresence in the sky.” Opinion | Why a case about jury verdicts could spell trouble for Roe v. Wade 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Dangerous speech — falsely shouting “fire” in a theater and causing panic, in Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s pointed example — is no more protected than dangerous assembly. Opinion | In-person church services right now are an affront to public health — and morality 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z "Society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a brief and chilling decision in that case. The peril of state power amid COVID-19 pandemic 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z “The mirror with a memory” is how Oliver Wendell Holmes described photography in 1859, when the medium was still relatively new. Review: Think of it as photography, reinvented. Why Lisa Oppenheim's art entrances 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Emerson, a great American essayist of the 19th century, wrote his line about striking at kings when a pupil, the future supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, attempted to refute Plato. Trump seems to confirm campaign of 'grievance, persecution and resentment' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes, the progressive darling who wrote the opinion, was big on courts bowing to popular sentiment. House poised for final impeachment vote 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Like many a bright undergraduate before and after, young Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. took on an authority figure and emerged confident that he had struck a shattering blow. Opinion | A strike at Trump must succeed. Democrats are ensuring it won’t. 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Her father worked for a time as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,’s clerk. Fanny Howe Makes Sense of Beginnings and Endings 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z However, it wasn’t Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Harvard Medical School professor and author of the Breakfast-Table series, who wrote it, but his son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. One needs to be careful about such things. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Wimbledon, ‘The Lion King’ and the power of art 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Also buried in Section 5 are Rehnquist and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. William O. Douglas, the court’s longest-serving justice with 36 years on the bench, is also there. Stevens to be 13th Supreme Court justice buried at Arlington 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Stevens, who died Tuesday at age 99 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, served longer than all but two justices and was the second-oldest after Oliver Wendell Holmes in the court’s nearly 230 years. John Paul Stevens evolved into Supreme Court’s liberal lion 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Stevens, who died Tuesday at age 99 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, served longer than all but two justices and was the second-oldest after Oliver Wendell Holmes in the court’s nearly 230 years. John Paul Stevens evolved into Supreme Court’s liberal lion 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z The modern conception of judicial minimalism traces to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s dissenting opinion in Lochner v. Opinion | The Supreme Court makes the wrong call on gerrymandering 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z To read that American heroes such as President Theodore Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes held such discriminatory beliefs puts today’s problems in a very sad perspective. Opinion | Bigotry against immigrants is not a new phenomenon 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The line for which the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is best known is also his ugliest: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The decision is known for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s statement: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Supreme Court compromise on Indiana abortion law keeps issue off its docket 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was nearing 90; in his memory was stored some 25 years of living in a nation where slavery was legal. Opinion | Happy birthday, mom. How the world’s changed in your 90 years. 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z That decision, written by the legendary Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, has never been overruled. Sunday Calendar Letters 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z At least none that could withstand the ascendancy to the court of a man whose judicial philosophy resembled that of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the progressives’ pinup who believed in vast judicial deference to majorities. Opinion | The Supreme Court was America’s least damaged institution — until now 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Dissenting in Lochner, Oliver Wendell Holmes said the Constitution “does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer’s ‘Social Statics,’ ” a book advocating laissez faire economic policies. Opinion | The questions I have for Brett Kavanaugh 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Above the main entrance, a quote from Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is carved: “Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.” Opinion | Civil servants at the IRS pursue an honorable mission 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The special educator at Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School has an alternative retirement plan: investing a portion of his salary in the stock market. Why L.A. Unified may face financial crisis even with a giant surplus this year 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The term anaesthesia was appropriated from the Greek by New England physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1846, to describe the effect of the drug ether following its first successful public demonstration in surgery. ‘I could hear things, and I could feel terrible pain’: when anaesthesia fails 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Among his most memorable prisoners in the 1960s was a man known as Daniel Jackson Oliver Wendell Holmes Morgan. Richard K. ‘Kirk’ Bowden, who protected civil rights figures as a U.S. marshal, dies at 82 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Having the high court decide the equitable apportionment of natural resources, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once said, was the alternative to the states taking up arms against each other. On Florida’s ‘Forgotten Coast,’ a Supreme Court fight over fresh water 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z The noxious decision, in which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., infamously wrote that "Three generations of imbeciles are enough," endorsed the cleansing of the so-called "feeble-minded" from the gene pool. Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics? 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. suggested that intelligence matters less in a president than the qualities of judgment, discipline and discernment that he called “temperament.” Opinion | Trump’s obsession with his IQ is the opposite of wisdom 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z As the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “A policeman may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman.” Trump wants NFL owners to fire protesting players. Can they? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z In that ruling, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said “the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.” Strange bedfellows: The ACLU, free speech and Neo-Nazis 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once opined that in our life as a society ruled by law, a page of history is worth a volume of logic. Opinion | Kenneth Starr: Mr. President, please cut it out 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Nearly a century ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., famously suggested, in defense of free speech, that “every idea is an incitement.” How Trump Has Stoked the Campus Debate on Speech and Violence 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z They’re a modern embrace of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s famous dictum: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” Opinion | Taxes — the great uniter? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Officers were dispatched to Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School just before 6 a.m. following reports of an unconscious man who appeared to have a gun next to him. Police: Teen found sleeping with gun in Boston schoolyard 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that hard cases make bad law. A 'Trigger Warning' for College Presidents 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Founded in 1791, it is the oldest and most prestigious club, counting among members Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theodore Roosevelt and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Olympic rowing twins of social network fame. Are Final Clubs Too Exclusive for Harvard? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, after meeting President Franklin Roosevelt after his inauguration in 1933, said of FDR, "a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament." Trump's Temperament May Decide the Election 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Scalia was “the most influential Supreme Court justice, in terms of interpretation of the law, since Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Another Attorney General for the Conservative Legal Army 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z He invoked the book of Genesis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, a king of Spain and “The Little Engine That Could” all in the same 2013 speech. California Today: Airbnb, a Hometown Success (and Villain) 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Even Brandeis’s closest colleague on the court — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. — evolved on race. Was Louis D. Brandeis ‘the Jewish Jefferson’? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The eugenicists who glom on to fledgling science to purify the race contribute their own vicious story line, stretching from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to Hitler and beyond. Review: Twin Books on the Genome, Far From Identical 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “I could carve out of a banana a justice with more backbone than that,” Roosevelt also said of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 7 Political Insults That Rival 'Lucifer in The Flesh' 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “The Internet amplifies everything,” said Thomas Healy, a Seton Hall law professor and author of the book “The Great Dissent,” about Oliver Wendell Holmes’ free speech evolution. Essay: Will the First Amendment survive the information age? 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in writing the decision, penned the now-famous phrase “three generations of imbeciles are enough”, referring to Buck, her daughter and her mother. History of science: When eugenics became law : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Scalia is destined to join the small group of the court's best writers, including Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis and Robert H. Jackson, who live on through their quotable opinions. Scalia's uncompromising style at times limited his impact on the Supreme Court 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z The idea of a clear and present danger test was introduced by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in a 1919 opinion, Schenck v. ISIS Influence on Web Prompts Second Thoughts on First Amendment 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z To buttress his argument, the chief justice harkened back to a 1915 exchange between two Supreme Court legends, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and future justice Felix Frankfurter, who was then a law professor. Woman hurt at Austrian train station can’t sue in U.S., Supreme Court rules 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z He quoted a 1915 letter from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to Felix Frankfurter, a law professor at Harvard who would later join the court. Supreme Court Says Woman Injured in Austria Can’t Sue in U.S. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is the oldest person to serve as a U.S. 9th Circuit addresses hazard of federal judges with lifetime job: age-related mental decline 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Modern First Amendment doctrine can be traced to a pair of dissents penned by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Brandeis in the early part of the 20th century. The power of a Supreme Court dissent 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z As Oliver Wendell Holmes said: “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation ever more.” The Catalan people have spoken. Will the Spanish government listen? | Artur Mas 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z As Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, retribution is simply “vengeance in disguise.” The Lawyer Who Defended Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z “Taxes,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., “are what we pay for civilized society.” Planned Parenthood and the barbarity of America 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z For example, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes defended forced sterilization along similar terms when he dismissed the equal protection claim of a young woman about to be sterilized. Go Set a Watchman Reveals America's Constitutional Conundrum 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Another dissent, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, was breezily and characteristically indifferent to details and to all rights but one: “The right of a majority to embody their opinions in law.” The 110 year-old case that still inspires Supreme Court debates 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said. Five myths about the Founding Fathers 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z This sort of judicial philosophy is really ur-conservatism, in a line of jurisprudence running from Oliver Wendell Holmes through Felix Frankfurter—whom Roberts quoted in Thursday’s King v. Justice John Roberts's Obamacare Decision Is a Mess 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z It is now also on freedom of thought—“not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate,” as Oliver Wendell Holmes declared. Pamela Geller and the Anti-Islam Movement 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z There have been a handful of great stylists on the court, including Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Louis D. Brandeis and Robert H. Jackson. Justices’ Opinions Grow in Size, Accessibility and Testiness, Study Finds 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z “I’m not Oliver Wendell Holmes, but I do have a feel for trials and cases, and it’s my humble belief that this case is going to be affirmed,” he said. Atlanta judge reduces sentences for three educators in cheating case 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes correctly noted the First Amendment does not give a person the right to falsely yell “fire” in a crowded theater, causing panic and probable loss of life. Swastikas and Free Speech 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z "A second-class intellect," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes pegged him. FDR: A Monumental Man 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Bell, in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writing for the majority, famously declared: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Virginia to Compensate Victims of Forced Sterilizations 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote that the “business of base ball” was not the kind of interstate commerce to which the Sherman Act applied. Appeal to reverse baseball’s antitrust rule is a desperate swing for the fences 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Every American believes the famous Oliver Wendell Holmes line about “crying 'fire!' in a crowded theater” is the slam-dunk argument-ender on any speech to which they object. We're Not All Charlie Hebdo, But We All Need Free Speech 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z You listen, you write your view, you can be Oliver Wendell Holmes, always in the dissent.” Mario Cuomo: A Miscarriage of Justice 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The great Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that important Supreme Court decisions “exercise a kind of hydraulic effect.” On Hobby Lobby, Ginsburg Was Right 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z “Nothing conduces to brevity like a caving in of the knees,” as Oliver Wendell Holmes liked to say, explaining why he wrote opinions while standing up. Stand down. More than 100 years ago the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in a famous essay, posited an important difference between morals and the law. Do We Really Want Businesses Deciding Who's A Terrorist Risk? 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z “In the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. taxes are ‘what we pay for civilized society.’ Texas textbooks complain about taxes, downplay segregation 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The first, by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” Are Tax Inversions Really Unpatriotic? 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z “If the treaty is valid, there can be no dispute about the validity of the statute” enacted to fulfill it, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote for the court. Chemical Weapons Treaty Does Not Apply to Domestic Dispute, Justices Rule 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The findings are a twist on the comment by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. that the First Amendment protects “freedom for the thought that we hate.” Sidebar: In Justices’ Votes, Free Speech Often Means ‘Speech I Agree With’ 2014-05-05T14:37:09Z They take their definition of success from that of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: "the gaining of money and position." The Tiger Mom Superiority Complex 2014-01-28T06:20:27Z In an infamous 1927 Supreme Court opinion, Oliver Wendell Holmes enthusiastically approved of this practice, saying of the coerced tubal ligation of a teenaged girl that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Eugenics Are Alive and Well In the United States 2013-07-10T09:45:40Z The only certainty when it comes to aging treasures, as Oliver Wendell Holmes knew, is that once their ensigns are tattered down, they are gone forever. SOS: Fastest Wartime Ship Fights to Avoid the Scrapyard 2013-05-20T16:05:26Z It all started during my undergraduate studies, when my “heart was touched by fire,” to quote Oliver Wendell Holmes. New at the top: ‘It is important to make moves when they are right for you’ 2013-04-21T22:56:17Z Oliver Wendell Holmes preferred to call Boston “the hub of the solar system.” Freedom From Fear: Boston is Liberated As Suspect is Captured 2013-04-20T12:05:19Z Once upon a time, the wealthy elite acknowledged and even took pride in the fact that they paid higher rates than other Americans @shamuskhan Oliver Wendell Holmes, the U.S. The Rich Haven’t Always Hated Taxes 2012-09-18T11:30:11Z “Oliver Wendell Holmes said taxes are the price of civilization, but Amazon did not want to pay,” said Michael Barnard, president of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association. Amazon, Forced to Collect Sales Tax, Aims to Keep Its Competitive Edge 2012-09-12T03:20:01Z Apparently, Ms. Rich never absorbed an important lesson from a fellow native of Massachusetts, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. "Taxes," Holmes wrote in 1927, "are what we pay for civilized society." City Room: The Day: Giving Up Citizenship, and the Taxes That Come With It 2012-07-12T13:19:19Z Assessing the constitutionality of a law passed by Congress, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once wrote, “is the gravest and most delicate duty that this court is called on to perform.” News Analysis: Health Care Is Defining Decision for Chief Justice Roberts 2012-06-29T00:40:05Z There is an almost irresistible temptation to linger over Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’ books, so intensely interesting is his personality and so fascinating is his work. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Their first-born child, Oliver Wendell Holmes, afterwards became chief justice of that same bench on which his grandfather sat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that he could cure any patient that came to him for treatment, if he but applied to him in time. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Directly over his breast was a superb wreath of white roses, carnations and maidenhair ferns from that other loved poet and dear friend, for305 whom Whittier wrote his last poem, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z Now and then, indeed, Nature in a fit of prodigality endows one person with both gifts.—Was not Oliver Wendell Holmes a Professor of Anatomy? The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z It is now known to be a contagious disease and indeed, as Oliver Wendell Holmes pointed out over half a century ago, may readily be carried from place to place by the physician in attendance. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Oliver Wendell Holmes, always generous in his welcome to younger writers, sent the following poem, never before printed:— If I were one, O Minstrel wild. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Oliver Wendell Holmes attributes his years and good health to an early morning walk or horseback ride before breakfast. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z On their return journey they visited Boston, where they made the acquaintance of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and spent a delightful day with the poet Longfellow at his country residence at Nahant. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a prescient side note, said Congress needed to update the laws, because “on principle anything that mechanically reproduces that collocation of sounds ought to be held a copy.” SOPA, Meet The Player Piano Copyright Threat 2012-01-18T14:06:04Z The first generation of distinctly literary men comprise the group at Cambridge including Longfellow, Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Eliot Norton, James Russell Lowell, and others of minor importance. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z On the day of the celebration, she took an early train for New York: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was on the train. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z In 1890 Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was Tennyson’s junior by only twenty-three days, wrote to him: I am proud of my birth-year, and humbled when I think of who were and who are my coevals. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Oliver Wendell Holmes promised me his interest in Mischief as I proposed to define it. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z Without wishing to make any invidious comparisons, I cannot refrain from commenting on the statement that it would be "ridiculous" to maintain that Mark Twain takes rank with Oliver Wendell Holmes. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The chef of the Parker House used to surpass himself at our breakfast entertainments for he knew that such an epicure as Oliver Wendell Holmes might be there at any time. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z All factions, he declared, claimed Oliver Wendell Holmes, and all peoples spoke of him in praise. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Thus it will be seen that the author of this work belonged on both sides to what Oliver Wendell Holmes has aptly called the Brahman caste of New England. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z In his famous 1858 poem “The Chambered Nautilus,” Oliver Wendell Holmes admired “the silent toil” that produced the “lustrous coil.” Too Much Love Threatens Chambered Nautilus, Scientists Say 2011-10-24T14:59:17Z In a 1958 lecture, Judge Learned Hand, a towering presence on the federal appeals court in New York, recalled saying goodbye to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as the justice left for the Supreme Court. Sidebar: Samuel Alito?s Effort to Balance the Law With What?s Fair 2011-10-17T15:18:14Z On the spiritual side I confess with Oliver Wendell Holmes that I have never quite got from under the shadow of the orthodox hell. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z Five years were spent at a school in Cambridgeport, which was kept by several successive teachers, and it was here, as schoolmates, that Oliver Wendell Holmes first met Margaret Fuller and Richard Henry Dana. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z The words anæsthetic and anæsthesia were coined from the Greek by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the American poet and physician, who was then living in Boston. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z They are, as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously put it, the price we pay for a civilized society. ‘Buffett Rule’ Is Wrong Way to Spread the Budget Burden: View 2011-09-20T00:24:01Z President Lincoln was born in that year and also Oliver Wendell Holmes, the genial American poet. Stories of Great Musicians 2011-09-10T02:00:28.157Z A most beautiful wreath from Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes—eighty-four white roses, fringed with carnations and maidenhair ferns, one for each year of the poet's life,—was laid around the name-plate on the coffin. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z For forty years the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes ministered to his Cambridge parish, revered and loved by all who knew him. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z One of his last gifts was a collection of books to Abdiel Holmes, the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z The last time I saw Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the grand poet of Massachusetts, he asked me to go out in his back yard and see his chickens. The Key to Success 2011-08-13T02:00:28.033Z In an address at a poultry-men's convention, Oliver Wendell Holmes said that chickens seem to have in them much more to study than did Darwin's doves. Every Man His Own University 2011-08-04T02:00:22.623Z The poet's relatives, and members of the Society of Friends from various places, occupied the seats forming the hollow square, an easy-chair being reserved for Oliver Wendell Holmes, but he was unable to be present. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z The son of this noble Bathsheba was "Dr. David," the grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said that a constitution is “made for people of fundamentally differing views.” Balanced-Budget Amendment Makes Politics Easy, Budgets Bad: View 2011-07-22T00:22:03Z She clings to her position like that which Oliver Wendell Holmes called The Last Leaf. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Oliver Wendell Holmes I had known for years, Artemus Ward was a household name in California, James Russell Lowell had become a familiar acquaintance through the “Biglow Papers;” but who was Josh Billings? The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z Standing desks were used by the wealthy in the 18th and 19th centuries and, historically, legal scholar and former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote many of his Supreme Court decisions while standing. Standing desks become more popular 2011-06-23T00:53:38Z Throughout his whole college course Oliver Wendell Holmes maintained an excellent rank in scholarship. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Oliver Wendell Holmes has expressed it poetically by stating that the angel of life sets this heart pendulum going and only the angel of death can break into the case and stop it. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Benjamin N. Cardozo and Louis D. Brandeis managed to make it through distinguished careers on the Supreme Court without citing dictionaries. Sidebar: Dictionary Citations by Justices Rise Sharply 2011-06-13T15:55:49Z The beautiful private hospital which takes the name of America's popular poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, was opened June 7, 1887. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z One of her sisters was cook for many years for Oliver Wendell Holmes. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Charles Dudley Warner was then introduced, and after a short speech, read a poem by H. H., "To Oliver Wendell Holmes, on his seventieth birthday." Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Boston gave him a welcome reception at Faneuil Hall, Oliver Wendell Holmes reading a poem on the occasion. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z There is one other topic which I would touch upon in speaking of the use and abuse of the Bible; it is a view which the late Oliver Wendell Holmes is supposed to have advocated. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z Oliver Wendell Holmes was born eighty-four years ago on the 29th of August, 1809. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 2011-03-20T02:00:35.193Z Also: energy costs, lawsuit impact on small firms, credit controversy, small firm fraud, scam warning, business building event, Florida trade mission, shocking soap, Oliver Wendell Holmes thought for the day. The Coming Irish Tech Boom 2011-03-17T01:45:57Z IN a quaint old gambrel-roofed house that once stood on Cambridge Common, Oliver Wendell Holmes—poet, professor, "beloved physician"—was born, on the twenty-ninth of August, 1809. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z By Oliver Wendell Holmes, author of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," etc. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z Of the many well-known clubs I remember, I went to the Anglo-American Club, where I was invited to meet Oliver Wendell Holmes. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z Of all of them might be said what Oliver Wendell Holmes said of the anatomists of the Renaissance. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Every line is not Oliver Wendell Holmes, though there are some similarities in the mustaches of the two judges. In a Judge?s Decisions, Shakespeare and SpongeBob 2011-01-24T16:19:37Z Oliver Wendell Holmes taught that life is good and sweet, and worth the living. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z He was certainly no other than Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the famous Autocrat of the Breakfast table, several of whose poems she knew almost by heart. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z They have been very prone to accept dear old Oliver Wendell Holmes, kindliest of men, charmingest of writers, as a great literary man. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z Oliver Wendell Holmes has said in a well-known poem, that— “There is nothing that keeps its youth— So far as I know—but a tree and truth.” The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses 2011-01-12T03:00:33.643Z Again, not Oliver Wendell Holmes, as Footnote 10 made clear in clarifying the source: “Oliver Hardy to Stanley Laurel on numerous occasions.” In a Judge?s Decisions, Shakespeare and SpongeBob 2011-01-24T16:19:37Z Upon the walls just back of the platform, against a background of maroon-colored drapery, and directly over the head of the original, hung a portrait of Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Historic through the fact that it once graced the chamber of Oliver Wendell Holmes is the exquisite four-poster now in a Salem house. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z Lowell's expression is worthy to be placed beside that of Oliver Wendell Holmes for the guidance of American minds. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes became her first associate and the first American subscriber. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z Mark Twain is a publisher; Oliver Wendell Holmes is a doctor; Edmund Clarence Stedman is a stockbroker; Robert Ingersoll, an advocate; George Cable, a public lecturer; and James Russell Lowell is a diplomatist. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Yet not only Boston—the whole world mourned the departure of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z It was Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who wrote that the Constitution was not designed to protect the thought we agree with but "the thought that we hate." Should the Highest Court Protect the Ugliest Speech? 2010-09-29T17:55:00Z The case took a couple of years to wind through the courts, but in the end, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes decided for Herbert. The Music-Copyright Enforcers 2010-08-06T14:31:00Z “Gardner has an old-fashioned, almost 19th-century, Oliver Wendell Holmes kind of American mind — self-educated, opinionated, cranky and utterly unafraid of embarrassment,” Adam Gopnik wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1999. Martin Gardner, Puzzler and Polymath, Dies at 95 2010-05-24T01:55:00Z Before leaving Boston, I had the pleasure of seeing Oliver Wendell Holmes at home. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z The life of Oliver Wendell Holmes spanned nearly the whole nineteenth century; and to the very last he kept abreast of the feeling, the thought, the movement, of the day. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Theodore Roosevelt, angry at the position taken by his own appointee, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., snapped that “I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that.” Barack Obama v. John Roberts: The Struggle to Come 2010-04-17T21:14:00Z He was about two years short of the record for longest service on the court, held by Justice Douglas, and about a year shy of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s record as oldest justice. Man in the News: Stevens?s Retirement Ends an Era, for Court and Nation 2010-04-09T18:17:00Z Oliver Wendell Holmes, of course, is the laughing philosopher, the humorist at his very highest, even if we use the word "humor" only in its most modern and narrow sense. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes pretends that they deteriorate on American soil. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Oliver Wendell Holmes touches the heart as well as the intellect, and that aside from his power as a humorist, is one great secret of his success. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Oliver Wendell Holmes improved upon this by adding: "And, as far as possible, he should confine himself to the other occupation." Catholic Churchmen in Science It is now known to be a contagious disease, and indeed, as Oliver Wendell Holmes pointed out over half a century ago, may readily be carried from place to place by the physician in attendance. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time Oliver Wendell Holmes spoke of it as “one of the finest and most beautiful hymns ever written.” The Story of Our Hymns Vain, no, Oliver Wendell Holmes is the personification of simplicity and good humour; a sunny-hearted man, with a lively enjoyment still of the pleasures of society. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior, his eldest child, was born in 1841. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Another, the Rev. Abiel Holmes, father of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, was a graduate of Yale, and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Edinburgh. Alice Cogswell Bemis A Sketch by a Friend Oliver Wendell Holmes was right; he had found the key to happiness. Rambles in Womanland Dr. Smith was a member of the celebrated Harvard class of 1829, to which Oliver Wendell Holmes also belonged. The Story of Our Hymns Oliver Wendell Holmes says that Yankee schoolmarms, the cider, and the salt codfish of the Eastern States are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The fact is known to you all, and I will not insist upon it, but it was Oliver Wendell Holmes who not only named, but who made the Atlantic. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Mrs. Bemis was in the eighth generation, through the son William, and from him also was descended Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the fifth generation. Alice Cogswell Bemis A Sketch by a Friend In this connection I must mention a day on which, under the title of "Jonathan Edwards," Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes favored the club with a very graphic exposition of old-time New England Calvinism. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Oliver Wendell Holmes prefers the morning from nine o'clock until noon for work. Methods of Authors But if they had no love for the good old ship, there were those who had; and a poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, came to the rescue. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read Do you remember," said Grandma Elsie, "those lines of Oliver Wendell Holmes' written in honor of Admiral Farragut, and read at a dinner given him, in which this passage occurs? Elsie at Viamede Among the boys most familiar with the scenes described in Lowell's recollections of his youth was Oliver Wendell Holmes, the son of the pastor of the First Congregational Church at Cambridge. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 Oliver Wendell Holmes used to carry a horse-chestnut in one pocket and a potato in another to ward off rheumatism. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 The root of the matter goes very deep in conformity to the hint of Oliver Wendell Holmes with respect to the time at which a child's education is to be begun. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who has been frequently quoted as having said that "the foremost qualification for success is the proper selection of one's grandparents." The Story of General Pershing Oliver Wendell Holmes hits off this liberty with language, in the following happy couplet:— “The things called pants, in certain documents, Were never made for gentlemen, but gents.” Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected On the appearance of this bit of news in a Boston paper, Oliver Wendell Holmes, a law student at Harvard, scribbled some verses and sent them to the editor. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools "Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln": poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 171. The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President It was something like Oliver Wendell Holmes reading his witty and satirical couplets to an audience of Harvard alumni. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures ‘Silence,’ says the poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, ‘like a poultice came to heal the wound of sound.’ The Island Mystery Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., the distinguished American author, wit, and poet. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose Everything else that we saw was a "star" place after that, for we were coming back into Massachusetts, and to the Berkshire Hills which Thoreau loved, and Hawthorne, and Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America Oliver Wendell Holmes would have us think that a man's value is determined a hundred years before his birth. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character Oliver Wendell Holmes speaks of his witty sayings in the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," and his conversational powers were so brilliant that they won the admiration of Thackeray. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century One of the finest definitions of happiness in literature is that given by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Personal Friendships of Jesus The academic aristocracy of Boston, which Oliver Wendell Holmes called the Brahmins, is still a reality though it was always a minority and is now a very small minority. What I Saw in America Oliver Wendell Holmes lived in Beverly and loved it, but then he had no Aunt Mary in the neighbourhood. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America The "Story of Jack Bannister's Fortunes" shows the artist's "colonial" style, "Men of Iron," "A Modern Aladdin," Oliver Wendell Holmes' "One-Horse Shay," are other fairly recent volumes. Children's Books and Their Illustrators In a letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1878, Bismarck in answer to an inquiry tells how the two became friends. Stories of Authors, British and American Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the famous physician and author, named the new method "Anæsthesia." A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Tomlinson," interrupted Furneaux, "a famous American writer, Oliver Wendell Holmes, described adjectives of that class as the blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Jack always buys me flowers; and books—books—books: Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and some glorified guides in volume form. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America I have great pleasure in introducing to you one who combines both, and a hundred other qualities, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876 Evidently Irving, like Goldsmith and Oliver Wendell Holmes, owed his amazing influence largely to his cheerful and wholesome this-worldliness. Washington Irving At fifteen, Margaret returned to Cambridge and resumed her private studies, except that, for a Greek recitation, she attended an academy in which Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was then fitting for college. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies Oliver Wendell Holmes thought it was an excellent thing for himself that he had had the opportunity to “tumble around in a library” when he was a youngster. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The author was born in Boston in 1808, and graduated from Harvard University in the same class with Oliver Wendell Holmes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 In his "Guardian Angel" and "Elsie Venner" Oliver Wendell Holmes traces the effects of heredity, a subject previously handled by Hawthorne in his "House of Seven Gables." Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism His early portraits, which hang on the walls of so many Boston homes, and which Oliver Wendell Holmes called the titles of nobility of the old Boston families, are priceless documents of history. American Men of Mind Whittier and Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emerson and Bancroft, Poe and Prescott, all arose during that eventful period, and made for themselves names that have become classical and immortal. Mushrooms on the Moor "The clown," says Oliver Wendell Holmes, "knows his place to be at the tail of the procession." The History of "Punch" Then Boston desired to know more of the invention and an appeal for a lecture signed by Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and other distinguished citizens was forwarded to Mr. Bell. Ted and the Telephone Oliver Wendell Holmes has said that bigotry is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you pour into it the more it contracts. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year The third of these New England poets, and also the least important, is Oliver Wendell Holmes. American Men of Mind The latter was given to the society by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Home Life in Colonial Days "The world's great men," says Oliver Wendell Holmes, "have not commonly been great scholars, nor its scholars great men." A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Mr. Shorter has many interesting manuscripts and books by Oliver Wendell Holmes, R. L. Stevenson, and A. C. Swinburne, with autographs or notes by their respective authors. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes once made the remark that if one wished to live a long life he should be afflicted with some incurable disease. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions Still another stirring phrase of inestimable value in rousing us from our torpor was that coined by the brilliant and lovable physician-philosopher, Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The Great White Plague of the North." Preventable Diseases And another Harvard professor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, was just coming into a national reputation in 1860 by his Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and other similar writings. Expansion and Conflict "You must begin with his grandmother," said Oliver Wendell Holmes, when asked a similar question. Pushing to the Front Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes used to be an amateur photographer. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Sir Edwin Arnold had written his "Light of Asia," and Oliver Wendell Holmes had welcomed it with wondering awe, as something approaching a new revelation. Seen and Unseen Mythical personage, whose breakfast-table monologues are among the most charming that enliven the pages of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Poet at the Breakfast Table. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Oliver Wendell Holmes maintained that all the difference in men, no matter their callings, lay in the difference of their ability to observe and draw proper conclusions from their observations. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success "Tumbling around in a library" was the phrase Oliver Wendell Holmes used in describing in part his felicities in boyhood. Pushing to the Front We need to remember, as Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes tells us, "how kindly Nature deals with the parturient female, when she is not immersed in the virulent atmosphere of an impure lying-in hospital." An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Their own Oliver Wendell Holmes had not yet begun to chastise them with gentle irony. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies We entered a bookstore and he asked for "The Innocents Abroad" and for the dainty little blue and gold edition of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's poems. Chapters from My Autobiography Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, several years since, said to the reporter of a Boston paper that base-ball was one of the sports of his college days at Harvard, and Dr. Holmes graduated in 1829. Base-Ball How to Become a Player We may pass briefly over the early years of Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 Well has Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, that "All things are in all things!" Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Over the Teacups, says of the story Eyes and No Eyes: I have never seen anything of the kind half so good. A Mother's List of Books for Children "Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, consound the lot—"' Now then the house's attention continued, but the expression of interest in the faces turned to a sort of black frost. Chapters from My Autobiography Mr. O'Reilly, as chairman of the banquet, sat at the head of the table, with Oliver Wendell Holmes on his right, and Mayor Frederick O. Prince on his left. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Shaking the dust of the law office from his shoes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, abandoning literature for a time, plunged boldly into the study of a profession for which he had always evinced a strong predilection. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 In the meantime a very strong recommendation of Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., now of the Supreme Court, had been received by the President. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 He has known men such as Lowell and tells yarns about Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Green Valley This noble hymn was composed by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, born in Cambridge, Mass., 1809, and graduated at Harvard University. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Oliver Wendell Holmes, in advanced years, acknowledged his debt of gratitude to the nurse of his childhood, who studiously taught him to ignore unpleasant incidents. Cheerfulness as a Life Power Our celebrated Boston poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, when asked when a child’s education should begin, promptly replied, “A hundred years before it was born.” The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog "Love droops, youth fades, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all," sings Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future Even an Oliver Wendell Holmes will say of metaphysics that it is like "splitting a log; when you have done, you have two more to split." The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin "Virgil," says Oliver Wendell Holmes, "has been the object of an adoration amounting almost to worship, but he will often be found on the shelf, while Horace lies on the student's table, next his hand." Horace and His Influence Mirth is God's medicine," said Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; "everybody ought to bathe in it. Cheerfulness as a Life Power And yet how well the physician, poet, autocrat and professor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, knows and sympathizes with this weakness in us! The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Paraphrasing the saying of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, three or four generations in the story of a New York store make an aristocrat of trade. Fifth Avenue Of this passage Oliver Wendell Holmes said that Emerson "speaks of woman in language that seems to pant for rhythm and rhyme." Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson When we think of those writers to whom we all owe so much, it would be sheer ingratitude to omit the name of the master of them all, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Lost Leaders Oliver Wendell Holmes was describing a dog's savagery; but he would have been the first to admit that an exactly similar spirit may be concealed—and not always concealed—in a human frame. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences "I find that Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "'Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.' Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks He had breakfasted with Oliver Wendell Holmes; dined, supped, and been to the theatre with Longfellow; and tomorrow he was to spend with Phillips Brooks. A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After At that time, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who has since become famous as a writer, was a young man twenty years of age, about completing his studies at Harvard College. New National Fourth Reader As Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, there are three Marcellas—the one Marcella herself knows, the one the people round about know, and the one God knows. Captivity The theme attracted me as it has attracted other writers—and notably Oliver Wendell Holmes, who built a poem on it. Lady Good-for-Nothing Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose grandfather was a Berkshire man, wrote: Berkshire has produced a race which, for independent thought, daring schemes and achievements that have had world-wide consequences, has not been surpassed. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The most interesting composition upon this cicada is by Oliver Wendell Holmes, but it is of the lighter sort of verse, with a touch of humour in it. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Yet read what a contemporary of the housewife of three quarters of a century ago says,—the wisest, wittiest, sanest doctor of the day, Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Nervous Housewife He had a special liking for the minor poems of Thomas Hood and of Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him He ranks with Chapman and Oliver Wendell Holmes in the grace of his periods as well as in the thoroughness of his learning and the exactness and acuteness of his logic. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes says," Mr. Bright remarked to the school, "that in every one of us there are two persons. The Evolution of Dodd Whatever may be said of the patriarchs, from Oliver Wendell Holmes to Amos Bronson Alcott, they were true sons of the New England stone fences and meeting houses. The Art of the Moving Picture Oliver Wendell Holmes somewhere analyzes the rapid disintegration of the substantial fortunes of his day and shows how it is, in fact, but "three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves." The "Goldfish" Oliver Wendell Holmes was successful as a physician and yet what would the world have lost if he had devoted his entire time and attention to the practice of medicine! Analyzing Character At a few rods' distance is the sunny bank where later was laid to rest Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Mrs. Gardiner's house filled me with admiration, but if I want rest and peace I just think of the houses of Mrs. James Fields and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Here, too, was Hawthorne, "who," as Oliver Wendell Holmes says, "brooded himself into a dream-peopled solitude." Lives of Girls Who Became Famous Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his eulogy of Whittier, says that his influence on the religious thought of the American people has been far greater than that of the occupant of any pulpit. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Who was more earnest than Oliver Wendell Holmes, who more genuine than Mark Twain? Life's Enthusiasms Touched with fire: Civil War letters and diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1861-1864. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 July - December It was of him that Oliver Wendell Holmes said that "Nature tried to hide him by naming him Smith." Russell H. Conwell Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee school-marm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern States, are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. American Notes The South building would become the "Whittier School," the East, the "Longfellow," and the West, not to be neglected by culture's invasion, the "Oliver Wendell Holmes." Dust Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Atlantic Monthly, June, 1890, says that he saw in London a photograph of a boy with a considerable tail. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Captain Jim had never heard of Oliver Wendell Holmes, but he evidently agreed with that writer's dictum that "big heart never liked little cream pot." Anne's House of Dreams At two o'clock Littlefield went up to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes' room, immediately above Professor Webster's, to help the Doctor to clear his table after his lecture, which was the last delivered that day. A Book of Remarkable Criminals "Undoubtedly Oliver Wendell Holmes," said I. "They have the flavor peculiar to our Autocrat; none but he could have done up so much sweetness in such a quaint little bundle." The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac In his old Flint's Physiology there was still a poem he had pasted there when he was a student; some verses by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes about the ideals of the medical profession. The Song of the Lark The first connected language she used was a description she gave Miss Fuller of a visit she had made to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in all over 200 words. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Oliver Wendell Holmes when asked, "When should a child's education begin?" promptly replied, "Two hundred years before it is born." Fifteen Years with the Outcast Oliver Wendell Holmes, then Professor of Anatomy at Harvard, who was present at the opening of the college, noticed how very nice and white the doctor's teeth appeared to be. A Book of Remarkable Criminals Although Oliver Wendell Holmes was educated in the older forms of religious beliefs, he became one of the most devoted of Unitarians. Unitarianism in America It is very many years since I read that saying of Oliver Wendell Holmes, but there is no saying I oftener have occasion to repeat to myself. Impressions and Comments Mr. Lang is peculiarly unfortunate in calling Oliver Wendell Holmes to witness against his particular and pet aversion "I belong here" or "That does not belong there." America To-day, Observations and Reflections What have we to do with time, asks Oliver Wendell Holmes, but to fill it up with labor. The Pleasures of Life Still, Oliver Wendell Holmes is tolerably representative of the nineteenth century attitude when he points memory to a second place. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Oliver Wendell Holmes's two delightful stories are as favorable examples of what can be done, in the way of an American novel, by a wise, witty, and learned gentleman, as we are likely to see. Confessions and Criticisms We wonder to which of these two impressions Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes inclined, if he went last Wednesday to Epsom! Our Hundred Days in Europe When Phillips & Sampson consulted Lowell in regard to the editorship of the Atlantic, he said at once: "We must get something from Oliver Wendell Holmes." Cambridge Sketches In an old Atlantic Monthly, from which, if I remember aright, he never rescued it, Oliver Wendell Holmes has a delightful paper on the delights of reading in bed, entitled "Pillow-Smoothing Authors." The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII In 1843 Oliver Wendell Holmes published the paper on "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever," which is now preserved in his volume of "Medical Essays." The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy The mechanism of this remarkable effect is clearly shown by an experiment which the late Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes used to take delight in performing in his anatomical lectures at the Harvard Medical College. A Practical Physiology Oliver Wendell Holmes, with a freshness and vigor all his own, developed out of it his fictional biography of Elsie Venner. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was class poet of 1861, an honor which pleased his father very much. Cambridge Sketches "Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes," she read aloud. The Spanish Chest Oliver Wendell Holmes has aptly expressed this fact. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Oliver Wendell Holmes's birth year, 1809, was made memorable on both sides of the Atlantic by the births of Lincoln, Tennyson, Poe, and Gladstone. Elson Grammar School Literature v4 "Make a reputation first by your more solid achievements," counselled Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mark Twain Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's practice approaches nearer to abstinence as he grows older. Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life Immediately after the publication of this work, she mailed a copy to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, accompanied by the following note:— BOSTON, May 19, 1869. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe To use Oliver Wendell Holmes’s phrase, he “depolarised” evolutionary thought. Unconscious Memory What do you know about Oliver Wendell Holmes from this poem? Elson Grammar School Literature v4 "Eyes and No Eyes" has been admired and praised by thousands of readers of past generations, among whom Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Kingsley are preeminent. Types of Children's Literature Oliver Wendell Holmes said that Emerson removed men's "idols from their pedestals so tenderly that it seemed like an act of worship." History of American Literature Soon after her return to America Mrs. Stowe began a correspondence with Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, which opened the way for the warm friendship that has stood the test of years. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe By the way," he concluded, "I remember a passage from that remarkable story, 'Elsie Venner,' by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in which he gives the most vivid description of the rattlesnake I have ever seen. Nature's Serial Story The frigate was converted into a school-ship, and Oliver Wendell Holmes became known as a poet. Elson Grammar School Literature v4 That is how she affected even the Puritan Oliver Wendell Holmes. Without Prejudice These lines seemed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, the moment he saw them, as if they had been "carved on marble for a thousand years." History of American Literature In these lines of his famous Reunion Poem, "The Boys," Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes commemorated his old friend and college-mate, Dr. Samuel Francis Smith, author of "America." Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life This address brought a letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice of the Supreme Court. Letters of Franklin K. Lane Historical: This poem was read by Oliver Wendell Holmes at a reunion of his college class thirty years after their graduation. Elson Grammar School Literature v4 Oliver Wendell Holmes says that Emerson attempted the impossible in the Over-Soul—"an overflow of spiritual imagination." Essays Before a Sonata Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes even called the old theology largely "diabology." History of American Literature With Oliver Wendell Holmes comes the last of this brief American list of honor. Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier One day he mentioned the fact to Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes and the poet said: "Let me write the introduction for it." The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after Readers well acquainted with the works of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this selection. Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr. When November 30th brought his birthday, one of the great Brahmins, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote him a beautiful poem. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain In The American Scholar, an address delivered at Cambridge in 1837, Emerson announced what Oliver Wendell Holmes calls "our intellectual Declaration of Independence." History of American Literature As Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "If all drugs were thrown into the sea, it would be so much better for man, but so much worse for the fishes." The Royal Road to Health He had breakfasted with Oliver Wendell Holmes; dined, supped, and been to the theatre with Longfellow; and to-morrow he was to spend with Phillips Brooks. The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after The Boston merchant's son was a high-hearted gentleman, and his cosmopolitan experiences used to make his stay-at-home friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes, feel rather dull and provincial in comparison. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Clemens and Oliver Wendell Holmes had met and become friends soon after the publication of Innocents Abroad, in 1869. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) Matthew Arnold, that severe English critic, called one of these poems perfect of its kind, and Oliver Wendell Holmes cried over one of them. History of American Literature Now, in 1879, there was to be another Atlantic gathering: a breakfast to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, to which Clemens was invited. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) In company with Nasby Clemens, that season, also met Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) A few days before Whittier's death, he wrote an affectionate poem in celebration of the eighty-third birthday of his old friend of the Saturday Club, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters All these people chatter a mixture of Lord Chesterfield and Oliver Wendell Holmes, of Heine, Voltaire, Madame de Stael, and the late lamented H. J. Byron. Idle Ideas in 1905 Kelley was born in Boston of a good Yankee family that could boast kinship with Oliver Wendell Holmes and Judge Samuel Sewall. The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics In his "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," Oliver Wendell Holmes gives a suggestion on this point for the private visitor, who does not know how to go. Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes She quoted Longfellow and occasionally Oliver Wendell Holmes, although she admitted she considered the latter rather too frivolous at times. Mary-'Gusta I remember well the first time I saw Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy Oliver Wendell Holmes, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, I think, confesses to having been bewitched at different times by two women’s voices, and adds that both these voices belonged to German women. Diary of a Pilgrimage Education," says Oliver Wendell Holmes, "is only second to nature. The Foundations of Personality To his friend Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, about to sail for an English holiday, Roosevelt wrote a private letter privately to be shown to Mr. Balfour, Mr. Chamberlain, and certain other Englishmen of mark. A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge Oliver Wendell Holmes I met so rarely that I have little memory of his brilliant conversation. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 To read Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, then, is to go behind the New Humorist—into a time before he was, or his Humour. The Rhythm of Life To go to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s period is to get rid of many things; to go to himself is especially to get rid of the New Humour, yet to stand at its unprophetic source. The Rhythm of Life ‘Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman,’ says Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Rhythm of Life And to say this is to confess that Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has worked, through a number of books, to futile purpose. The Rhythm of Life |
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