Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Scotland from the Earliest Times to the Present Century," by John Mackintosh L. L. D.; "The Influence of Sea Power upon History," by A. T. Mahan; Hippolyte Bernheim's "Treatise on the Nature and Uses of Hypnotism"; "Electric Transmission of Energy"; a practical hand-book, by Gisbert Knapp; "Abraham Lincoln's Pen and Voice," being a complete compilation of his letters, civil, political and military; also his public addresses, messages to Congress, inaugurals and others; "The Diseases of the Will," by Theodule Ribot, and "The Psychology of Attention," by the some author and Rullof Wolf's "Handbuch der Astronomie, Inrer...
Darling, Eugene Abraham, Hasty Pudding Club...
...Smith then gave a rapid sketch of the history of commerce from its earliest days-of the transactions of Abraham and Joseph; of the Semitic and Arabian trades-instancing Saul of Tarsus as the first Christian commercial traveler, of the commercial relations of Rome, Venice and Geneva, of the business supremacy of the Medici family in Florence. As modern examples of able business men who have achieved success in other directions are Alexander Hamilton, Warren Hastings, John Bright, William E. Gladstone. There have been no notions which have become strong and influential without commerce...
...John Worcester, President of the New Church Theological School, in the chapel of the school, 48 Quincy street, on the following evenings of March and April: March 11, The Story of the Creation; March 18, The Garden of Eden; March 25, From Eden to Noah; April 8, Abraham and his Descendants; April 15, Joseph in Egypt; April 22, the Exodus: April 29, The Tabernacle and Sacrificial Worship. The lectures will begin at half past seven o'clock. The public are invited...
...lawyers, too, are very slow to abandon a case when once fairly started, but there are lawyers-and these constitute no small quota of the legal profession-who refuse to take a case which is morally unjust, though admitting legal advocation. Of this class the most notable example is Abraham Lincoln...