Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Grant was now eager to take the initiative. But Bragg was blind to the change in affairs and detached a strong force to attack Burnside in Knoxville...
...that is that it shows that religion is worth thinking about. Though much of the philosophical discussion of this and other times goes contrary to Christianity, yet philosophy and religion have to be taken together. Evolution, whether Hegelian and Spencerian, idealistic or materialistic, must figure in Christianity. We cannot blind ourself to this...
...result of this close and long continued application to study was a weakness of his eyes, that increased with alarming rapidity until he was almost blind. He was unable to read for more than five minutes at a time, and could not bear the sunlight. Against this adverse fortune, when most men would have given up effort, Francis Parkman struggled the greater part of his life. The story of his struggles, and of his life, crippled by sickness, is full of pathos, and a heroism that is inspiring...
...WOLFFE, 24 Follen St."The Strollers," the New York amateur club founded at Columbia College in 1886, will give a benefit performance next Tuesday evening at Keith's Bijou Opera House in aid of the Kindergarten for the Blind. The club will appear in two new comedies, "Mother-in-Law" and "Raspberry Shrub." Tickets are for sale at Herrick's, Copley square...
...hardly be doubted that national spirit is kept up by the soldiers and sailors in our country's service. It is they who spend their lives beneath the flag. That national spirit means more than a blind worship of the flag with us. When the band is assembled upon our flagships in China to play the national air as our flag is unfurled to the morning sun, every sailor's heart grows warm and sometimes his eyes grow dim, not because that flag represents a nation, but because justice and liberty, peace and rest, the purity and sacredness...