Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Home Rule would be bad for Ireland. - (a) The Irish have badly ruled Ireland in the past. - (1) Parliaments of 1688 and 1782; Quar. Rev, Vol. 165, p. 500. - (2) Recent Irish dissention: Fraser Vol. 85, p. 106 - (b) It would promote dissentions, - (1) The Protestants comprise one third of the population and wish union - (2) Many of the rest wish complete separation: Fortn LIII, 345-8 - (c) The condition of Ireland is improving: Contemp. XLIX...
...foresight refuse to see the necessity of keeping proper training in their college duties. An indifference to this is often more fatal than irregular hours or change in diet would be. As a matter of fact college sentiment ought to discourage in every way the one form of bad training as well as the other...
...Reform in our divorce laws is necessary. - (a) Divorces are increasing greatly: Tribune Almanac for 1893, 212-213; C. D. Wright, Report on Marriage and Divorce, 77-113. - Present lax system affects stability of American institutions: Journal of Social Science, No. 14, 155-163. - (1) Bad effect on individual. - (2) On family: New Englander. XLIII. 61. - (3) On nation at large: Princeton Review, IX. 92. - (c) State laws vary on every point: Lloyd, The Law of Divorce, ch. VI. - (1) Grounds for divorce. - (2) Legal proceedings. - (3) Subsequent status of parties: Forum...
...effort. After eighteen months in an asylum he recovered and went to Huntington to see his brother. Here he met the Unwins and soon became an inmate of their home. On the death of Mr. Unwin the family went to Olney and Cowper with them. Due greatly to the bad influence of a Mr. Newton, curate of the parish, in 1773 his malady again returned and through his long illness of two years he was attended by Mrs. Unwin with the most affectionate care. To beguile the tedium of his recovery, he occupied himself with carpentry and gardening...
...done. We are apt to get confused as we proceed in something that at the outset looked simple enough, and sometimes we even forget our original purpose. In Lent most of us try a little more earnestly to improve ourselves, for example we try to break loose from some bad habit or to help others nearer to God. Towards the end of Lent, though, we usually find that we have not done so well as we hoped to. What we must do then, is to look to our original purpose and with God's help put in some earnest work...