Word: aways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arms by the defeated party. The returns from the elections show that the republicans are losing ground, but the fall of the republicans will not destroy the republic. the anti-republicans, composed of monarchists and imperialists, see a possibility of coming into power without revolution, and this turns them away from conspiracy against the government. If they should come into power they will not divest themselves of the immense patronage of the government and the ability to govern themselves in favor of a pretender to the crown, who would cast them aside as soon as he dared. The trouble with...
...receive it into our hearts with pure feelings we shall be animated to rise above it, and with a better heart to accomplish the designs for which we have been created. Our care must be not to let this feeling of contrition weaken or turn us away. If, in the depths of our discouragement, we look humbly to God as our guide, with the hope that part of that seemingly far distant righteousness may be ours, we shall see, in this feeling of contrition, the prophecy of better things...
...great skill is shown in leading up to the catastrophe. The poet makes us understand the conduct of Medea, although no real sympathy with her unnatural deed is possible. Medea herself was, in the minds of the Athenians, a real and terrible woman, who could no more be explained away as a moon myth than could Xantippe or Aspasia...
...favor by their presence in numbers large enough to fill the hall, and then there would be no need to throw open the doors to outsiders in order to get an audience. As the seats are reserved and tickets can be had for the asking, no one can stay away in the excuse that it is necessary to go early to get a seat, or that they do not feel like paying to hear a lecture on a subject in which they are not particularly interested...
...home. The stay at the ball was very short, however, because the party was booked to leave St. Louis by special train shortly after midnight. With many regrets expressed on all sides, the Harvard men were driven to the station where they lost no time in stowing themselves away in the sleeping-cars...