Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...usually grieve not because they have but because they lack great possessions, said Dean Fenn, and yet this clean, ardent, and dutiful young man who ventured to say to Jesus, and doubtless with entire sincerity, that he had kept all the commandments, was completely changed in his attitude toward himself and his possessions by a single sentence from the lips of Jesus. In considering the requirement of Jesus in this case, Christendom has unfortunately fastened its attention not upon the essential but almost exclusively upon the accidental element, for the point of his command lies in the "Come, follow...
Finally, one must praise Mr. Berenson for the admirable clearness of his style. Not only can be command the memorable adjective on occasion, but he can state intricate aesthetic problems with refreshing simplicity and describe the attributes of a painting or its author with a precision which a scientist might envy and a quality which stamps it as literary. He is to be congratulated on having accomplished the most important work of its kind which has appeared in the last decade from the pen of any English speaking art critic...
...when I alluded to the word 'smartness.' I have no message to deliver, but if I had a message to deliver to a university which I love, to the young men who have the future of their country to mold, I would say with all the force at my command: Do not be smart. If I were not a doctor of this university with a deep interest in its discipline, and if I did not hold the strongest views on that reprehensible form of amusement known as 'rushing,' I would say that whenever and-whenever you find one of your...
...wore sewed to the sleeve of their shirts the red cross of the hospital corps; everywhere throughout the vast extent of armies, in Cuba, in Porto Rico, or left behind to sweat and toil in weariness, men we had known and men we had heard of, men placed in command of companies, or in the third relief of the guard, were doing what ought to be done...
...Oliver-Le-Daim has fallen in love. Louis promises Gringoire that he will spare his life if he succeeds in winning Loyse within the hour. When left alone with her, however, the poet forces himself, by a supreme effort, to keep silence on the subject of the king's command. On the latter's return, Loyse for the first time realizes Gringoire's position, and declares that by the subtlety and sweetness of his conversation he has won her heart. The play ends in the ruin of Oliver and the wedding of Loyse and Gringoire...