Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...religious zeal and who was ready to sacrifice himself. Zeal and self sacrifice are the two chief characteristics of the apostles, and if we would live like them we must be zealous in religion and we must learn to sacrifice ourselves. There are two kinds of zeal, one blind and uninstructed, and one according to knowledge. Headlong zeal will never bring success in anything, whether it be business, study, or religion, but we must try to be zealous in religion by learning what Christ would have us do, by being with him and by putting ourselves under the guidance...
Strangely, in Barbour's work, Wallace does not figure. Contemporary with Bar bour, however, came the author of the so called Blind Harry's "Wallace" a long poem sounding the praises of the great Scotchman, This poem had an influence later on Burns and Scott. About the same time came Andrew Winton who wrote the "Chronicles of Scotland." Winton had no marked literary gift and his work is not any great. It has, however, certain interest for the antiquarian...
...consideration two elements, the existing interests and ideas as embodied in the undergraduates, and the past experience, the knowledge of which is possessed by the graduates. Both of these factors are of the utmost importance; the sports must be kept up to date, and yet, in order to avoid blind mistakes must be guided by the experience of what has gone before. The plan proposed to combine these two necessities, is briefly this: the committee which shall have the direct management of the athletic teams is to consist of the captain of the team, a graduate, and an expert coach...
...life is a pilgrimage whose course and duration can not be forseen. The man who has no faith either accepts the uncertainty of life as a necessity of fate, he is caught in the net of a hidden destiny which to him can never seem anything else than a blind chance because there is no purpose and no love in ie: or else he fights against the uncertainty of life and tries to conquer it by his own skill and prudence and pertinacity. Thus every event that crosses his plan is a cause of anxiety and irritation, and every call...
...mistletoe, which was so small that they thought it could do no harm. Loci heard of this, and possessing himself of a branch, repaired to an assemblage of the gods, when they were throwing things at Balda and sceing them avoid him. Loci gave the mistletoe to Balda's blind brother and directed him to throw it at Balda, - when he was killed...