Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comes with the lapse of history itself. Every institution which healthily lives is always in the very process of its life, freeing itself more and more from slavery to its partial and temporary connections and entering into broader relations with the true element of its existence. All healthy action and movement tend to more and more liberated and enlarged relation to the intended conditions and elemental supply of the thing which acts and moves. There is no true sign of the divine presence in the divine care of the world than that. The Church of Christ begins almost...
...does not feel all life clamorous and profuse about it the longer that it goes on building its little corner or laying its bit of the foundation of the great structure. Each has missed the best result of living, which in that life enlarges itself by its own healthy action - Solvitur ambulando - and grows more conscious and more receptive of the true element of its existence, the larger and more fully it does its work...
These, very hurriedly suggested, are the four: The enlargement of discipline, the enlargement of experience, the enlargement of dogma, the enlargement of life; these are the successive openings of the envelopes which have enclosed the thought and action of the college until at last it stands free to draw its inspiration from, and to exercise its influence upon the whole activity...
...tactician, Mr. J. A. Frye, and dressed in smart policemen's uniforms they formed a very pleasing feature of the show. Their leading transparency informed the public that they were "drumming for clients." Their other transparencies, though all based on legal catches were exceedingly clever. One represented "Circuity of Action," as exemplified by a corporal's arm and a trim maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First...
...exercises, either to ease the consciences of the revellers, or, what is more probable, to sweeten by contrast the subsequent carousal. There is some brief speech-making and bowing and toasting and responding by the Grand Duke, and introducing formality. But little by little the deck is cleared for action, and the men settle down to the serious business of the night. Now by the beard of Gambrinus, shall noble deeds be done. Let the hugest beer keg tremble - even the Great Tun in the castle cellar. For here is an unflinching army of veterans, every man a tested hero...