Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecture goes back to the foundation of the world. But the reality is not so bad as the sound; for although there is a wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there is a vein for silver; the earth hath dust of gold." In the book of Daniel there is an account of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar set up on the plains...
President Schurman of Cornell has issued the following letter: "I regret to announce that A. Abraham, of Brooklyn, has been defeated in this efforts to enrich Cornell University. Mr. Abraham anthorized me to purchase the late Ernest Renan's great oriental library as a gift to Cornell. His offer was on the point of aceptance when Mme. Calmanne Levy, widow of Renan's publisher, telegraphed that she will present it to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...
...Henry Watterson of Louisville, Ky., lectured at Dartmouth College Monday on "Life, Career and Death of Abraham Lincoln...
...Abraham Lincoln." II. Life in Indiana-Removal to Illinois-Flatboatman and Clerk. Ida M. Tarbell. "The Love of the Prince of Glottenberg." A Story. Anthony Hope. "Madonna and Child in Art," Will H. Low. "Chapters from a Life." I. An Autobiographic Paper...
...meeting Dr. Charles Waldstein of King's College, Cambridge, was re-elected professor of the history of art for the year 1896-97, and Professor Herbert Weir Smyth of Bryn Mawr College was invited to serve as professor of the Greek language and literature for the same year. Professor Abraham Lincoln Fuller of Western Reserve University was elected to the latter chair for the year...