Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor J. Estlin Carpenter conducted the services in Appleton Chapel last evening, taking his text from the fourteenth chapter of St. Luke: "Whosoever doth not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple...
...just tax. - (a) It is an assessment on a man's ability to pay. - (b) It falls upon those who are best able to pay. - (1) Incomes more than necessary for actual living expenses. - (c) It equalizes the burden of taxation. - (1) The poor have to bear most of the taxes on consumption: Lalor's Cyclopaedia...
Phenomena which deserve consideration are those of breath, shadow, reflection, sleep, swoon, sickness, wounds and death, Two facts, interesting in their analogies and contrasts, bear upon the subject, namely, the states of waking and sleeping, and those of life and death. In both sleep and death, something seems to go out from the person, the difference being that in death the something that goes out does not return. Furthermore, when the sleeper dreams of the dead, the explanations of dreams and death confirm each other. As to the nature of that which seems to go out, there are several groups...
...rescue ourselves from what Milton calls "these grammatic flats and shallows." The blossoms of language have certainly as much value as its roots; for if the roots secrete food and thereby transmit life to the plant, yet the joyous consummation of that life is in the blossoms, which alone bear the seeds that distribute and renew it in other growths. Exercise is good for the muscles of the mind and to keep it well in hand for work, but the true end of Culture is to give it play, a thing quite as needful...
Purchasers of tickets are reminded that every Yard or Memorial ticket given out by them must bear their signatures, preferably on the face of the card, unless the ticket bears the stamp of the chairman of the Class Day Committee...