Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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If a man stood alone in the world, he might well come to believe himself mortal; but as wings are prophetic of flight, so are the loves of a man prophetic of a higher, better existence to come. When life has gone from one whom we tenderly love how could...
I might, if I were inclined, found this sentiment of affection for Harvard upon the honor she has done to me in adopting me as one of her own sons; but I prefer to say that I make the gift with still greater pleasure as the president of a sister...
He was thoroughly interested in his work here. Those of us who have had the privilege of meeting him week day mornings at Wadsworth House remember the warmth and heartiness of his greeting and the interest and affection he felt for each one. In the pulpit as well as in...
Phillips Brooks was a Harvard man. This does not mean merely that he graduated in '55, that class which contains such other names as Alexander Agassiz, Robert Treat Paine and Theodore Lyman. His interest in his university did not end at graduation, but ever since, he has not only kept...
The fifteenth in England centurey was barren of literary advance. In Scotland however literature blossomed out freely. The times were less turbulent in Scotland +++ kings happened to be literary men James I, called the Poet-King, early showed the beautiful nature which afterwards wrote itself so finely in his great...