Word: brabanters
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...Duke of Brabant, however, who had been committed to the care of a few students of his own age, expressed a desire to see that which the President could not show to the King and Queen, namely: the dormitories, the kitchens, the class-rooms, and so forth. He seemed delighted to escape for a while from the restraint of an official ceremony, and a scholarly ceremony, at that...
...Duke of Brabant, heir apparent to the throne of Belgium, who is now visiting with his father, King Albert, may enter the University, in order to secure an American education...
...Thompson is the authentic model of Catholicism and Cotton Mather of non-Catholic Christianity. But may it not here be the signs of a growth in wisdom, the accumulation of maturing years? Besides, poets are notoriously poor philosophers; even Dante has been suspected of heresy for placing Siger de Brabant in Paradise. And so Mr. Wright would beatify his "fair Pagan." "For he who going through life, embraces virtue like a friend--he it is who attains to the Perfect City and the Happy Islands...
...sensitive nature and have much more tender feelings than ordinary mortals. They were, therefore, deeply wounded, and considered it as reflecting on themselves, when some students, always full of levity, and totally given over to the ways of the Evil One, while returning from the opera of Genevive de Brabant, sang in their hearing the following lines...