Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The end of all education is character, and while you may speak of different parts of man, still he is really a unit and must be developed as a unit. All literature which does not build up in man faith, hope and love, has no place in the world. It...
"A Comedy of Errors" impresses one as a clever bit of character-delineation - certainly as good a piece of prose as there is in the eighth number of the Advocate. In the mutual misunderstanding of the man and the woman, who are the sole human characters of the sketch, we...
Of a different nature, but fully as good in its way, is "Roland s Reform." It is thoroughly local in its character, the men in the story - the frank, apparently priggish but really joke-loving friend, and the fellow who indulges in a summer flirtation, unconscious of its serious results...
"The Memory of Mag" is another one of that class, to which the majority of contributions to the Advocate belong, - character sketches. As a whole, it is not very strong, there being much of what Lang styles "an unnatural coercion to tears."
Saint Paul often says of certain things "I know," or "we k ?," not giving any reason for the knowledge or any proof that it is sound. We all seem to have more or less of this feeling in our own lives. We are convinced of some things which do not...