Word: bored
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...architects and rulers planned, the stone cutters and masons wrought, the peasants put in their pennies, the old guilds of workmen and of tradestolks, the kings, the bishops, the gentry-all bore a hand, and the cathedrals arose...
...claim of apostolic succession and the corollary claims of especial spiritual grace; then came, too, the increased importance of the eucharist as a sacrament and the priest as the only one competent to administer it, and in these claims lay the seeds of clerical supremacy and sacerdotalism, that afterwards bore the full fruit of the exclusive "high church" ideas. The Roman church adopted these ideas and fully expressed them in the Council of Trent; in Germany and in England the reformers repudiated them, but in the seventeenth century they crept back again into a section of the Anglican church...
...lieutenant-governor from 1893 to the death of Governor Greenhalge in 1896, he began to take up the responsibilities which he bore so well during the next three years as Governor of the State. His labors in these years were a great strain upon him, for he tried to meet all the claims that his great popularity made upon him. While resting in Europe last summer he was appointed ambassador to Italy, but he has since refused the honor...
...seen companies of Harvard men drilling on the Delta where Memorial Hall now stands. They were there because the country was in need of help; because every brave man was eager for a part in the work that had to be done; and it' in memory of those who bore their p at the cost of life that we meet here...