Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classics have received another blow. They are taken into account no longer in the annual competitive examinations for commissions in the English army. The innovation, however, has but little significance, one way or the other, in the discussions of the Greek question at present going on. It is doubtful if a man would prove either a better or a worse commander of troops upon a modern battle-field, simply because he happened to have read in Thucydides a description of the fighting around Syracuse. Wellington was a classicist; Grant...
...Henry Irving, on account of his illness during his present stay in Boston, will not be able to deliver the promised lecture under the auspices of the Shakspere Club, If possible Mr. Irving will give the lecture in March, before returning to England...
...disappearance of the utensils in question is without doubt due to thoughtlessness and neglect, and it is on this account that we wish to remind all borrowers that they are in fact borrowers, and consequently under the obligations incumbent upon all borrowers...
...this become in the scheme of fatalism? A delusion, a disease. Guilt cannot slip in through the network of necessary causation. If my ancestors were vicious, if my bringing up was bad, if my temptations were strong, why should I up-braid myself? Yet how am I to account for this consciousness of sin, which is wholly different from the consciousness of folly or misfortune? I may have done myself all the harm imaginable through mere folly and stupidity; but however mortified or sullen I may be, I can never feel guilty or penitent. It is as hard to argue...
...hard to understand the nature of such a force; and perhaps on this account people are apt, in discussing the freedom of the will, to confuse this special kind of freedom with those others which I have tried to explain. Another source of confusion is the prevailing feeling that the very existence of right and wrong is involved in this question; and therefore men approach the subject with their minds already made up, and in doot take the trouble to analyze the problem and see in what sense right and wrong really depend on the answer we give...