Word: command
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Surely, a training which gives a man command of himself, and power to awake enthusiasm in other men, is one of no small consequence...
...motives. Our duty always shows itself to us as the best thing, yet one which we have power to reject. There are many acts to which the sense of duty has no application, but where pleasure may be allowed free play. Moreover the same thing which duty would command is done better if we do it from love. But duty is needed to keep us true, till our loves are surely wise and strong. We shall do well to help out our sense of duty, by a vivid sense of the consequences of acts. Duty works order and beauty...
...better or a wider clientele than Mr. Whitney among the amateur sportsmen of the college, athletic clubs, and the better element of sportsmen generally. His experience, his training, and his associations have all tended to make him thoroughly competent, and his weekly comments and criticisms will be sure to command attention. "What Whitney says" has so often helped the perplexed captain of a team, or settled the final standing of a doubtful amateur, that what he will have to say in the Weekly will carry weight with it, and will be looked for with keen interest...
...Booths hopes by a series of tests of willingness and capacity to drain off the lowest tenth of the poor of London, and in this way to relieve the strain on those who are just able to gain a livelihood. He has at his command two important factors; 1st, his intense dramatic religion, 2d, his military organization. Allowing for the incalculable power of the first, supplemented by the effectiveness of the second, his work remains of gigantic proportions. He would remove from the city this wretched class, Christian, Pagan, Jew, young, old, without discrimination; he would put them on farms...
...beginning of the Christianera, the Greek philosophy had grown to be extremely practical. The school of philosophers taught self-command and discipline. Its aim was personal culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime...