Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attached to it real property, but I am of opinion that those only are real possessions which abide with a man after he has been stripped of those others falsely so called, and which alone save him from seeming and from being the miserable forked radish to which the bitter scorn of Lear degraded every child of Adam. The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature will defy fortune and outlive calamity. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot be alienated. "Books," says Wordsworth, "are a real world," and he was thinking, doubtless, of such books...
...college at Edinburgh, studying principally history and reading much romance. He cared very little for classics. According to his father's wishes he studied law and at the age of 21 was admitted to the bar. About this time he fell in love but he was doomed to bitter disappointment which made a deep impression on him, and lent to many of his works a peculiar shade of pensive melancholy. In 1797, however, he married a bright and pretty French girl, and he seems to have been happy with her. In 1796 he began to write. His works are naturally...
...Executive Council has been satisfactory in the past. - (a) It was the first bitter experience with one man power. - (b) The colonial council was introduced into the state. - (c) It was favorably considered by the convention of 1853. - (d) It is endorsed by no less than five living ex-governors. - (e) Never until lately has there been trouble...
Over Swift's private life hangs a most perplexing mystery. Because of this, to defame his character is not just, since honorable motives may at all times explain his actions. He lived a hard life, - a bitter one. His mind from early manhood gave signs of darkening, and finally was clouded entirely. Yet that mind, in its prime, one of the most strikingly original the world has seen and, if not sublime, certainly never commonplace and always possessed of universal strength and untainted sincerity...
After all, then, the text is not a mere rhetorical paradox, though its maxim is even now regarded as a distant ideal, impracticable at present. Even in the church the largest purse secures the best pew. Not many years ago John Ruskin spoke in bitter words of England's growing indifference to the laws of Christ. Other nations, he said, had rejected a Supreme Ruler, but had done it bravely and honestly. Englishmen acknowledged the existence of a God, but it was a foolish one. The devil's laws were alone practical. The Golden Rule was an ideal impossible...