Word: churches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Ruprecht was laid in the largest church...
...useful an instrument as the axes of the Age of Stone. It is not required of our modern generals, before putting them at the head of our troops, that they should know how to shoot with a bow and arrow. Unhappily Latin is still the language of the Church, and priestly influence shows itself here as in everything else. What then? Do I wish to proscribe the study of Latin or Greek? Certainly not. I esteem Latin, not for the sake of speaking or writing it, but in order to enjoy the beauties of the Latin authors; I admire...
...clustered village bear; and then a church...
...France about seventy-five or eighty lyceums, and two hundred and fifty colleges, situated, the former in the principal places of the departements, the latter in the principal places of the arondissements. Besides these public institutions there are also schools founded and governed by individuals, either secular or under church influence; so that in a certain sense it cannot be denied that liberty of instruction exists in France. Any individual of good record who has attained a certain rank at the University can obtain permission to open a school and obtain pupils. But, on the other hand, this liberty...
...hark! I hear from yonder dark church-tower...