Word: 13th
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...emphasizing the importance of comparing the present confusion in the forms of art, education and religion, with its growth and development from the Middle Ages. When the fall of the Roman Empire took place, all civilization and culture was enveloped in darkness. From that time until the 12th or 13th century, the whole world was undergoing a complete revolution, as far as civilization was concerned. The skepticism and superstition which had played so important a part in the fall of the Roman Empire, was superseded gradually by the religion of the Christians, During the period from...
...certain types of felling, by its poetic lives of martyrs, and by its scriptural poems, it had a most powerful influence in the growth of culture. This growth extended through all the centuries from the 6th or 7th, when the new language of France was born, up to the 13th, when a new world had manifestly sprung forth. Arts of all sorts began to assert themselves. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and England all formed a new world in poetic life. And finally in Dante we see the magnitude of the growth in civilization and the overwhelming power...
Andover 26; Exeter 10.The 13th annual game between Andover and Exeter was played at Exeter on Saturday and resulted in a complete victory for Andover by the above score...
...SCHURZ, Sec'y.THE exercises in Chemistry I on Nov. 12th and 13th will be omitted...
...Abbott took for his text the 13th and 16th verses of the 11th chapter of Hebrews. He spoke of the necessity of progress. Pagan countries are stereotyped, they are printed from stereotype plates cast two thousand years ago. The religion of the church, of the priests, of the ministers has not always been forward, but the religion of the Bible is forward. We should not look backward for our ideals but forward. The world is better today than it was yesterday, it will be better tomorrow that it was today if we do our duty. Don't be discouraged...