Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said: In that period between the dynastic conquest and popular revolt in Germany, the lives of both Goethe and Schiller are principally laid, the one a patrician and of high rank, the other a plebian of poor parents. Goethe was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years...
...such." Mr. Dodge to the idealism of Marlowe, Massinger and Middleton, contrasted with the subjective idealism of Byron, Browning and Walt Whitman," Mr. Lathrop to "Early rising and its influence on poetry." Mr. Newell to "The modern Puritan." Mr. Pillsbury to "Harvard College as foreshadowed in the Norman Conquest." Mr. Trafford to "The Class of '89," Mr. Warren to "College life, is it happiness or agony?" Mr Wright to "Wage fund and its influence on the human brain...
...Babylonian writing recognizes many familiar words. If Sennacherib's letters to Hezekiah had been in the Assyrian language but in the Hebrew written character the receiver could have understood it with ease. There was no essential difference between the Ninevite and the Babylonian forms of language. After the Persian conquest of Babylon, in 538 B. C., the language continued to flourish till the beginning of our era. Those who used it held also to their ancient script, too conservative to adopt the alphabet. But it is a crowning glory of the Semitic peoples that one of their number invented...
...second bout in the light-weight boxing between Mr. Brice and Mr. Conquest, both members of the B. Y. M. C. A., was the next event. Brice forced all the fighting and was awarded the bout...
...pictures of the Grand Canal, the Doge's Palace, the Piazza and Cathedral disan Marco, the Bridge of Sighs, the Arsenal, and also the principal private palaces. The history of the most noted objects of interest was given briefly, and a few words were said about the career of conquest which was the glory of the city. The views were remarkably well selected, and were calculated to give an excellent idea of Venice as it now appears...