Word: considerations
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is no better use to put old books to than to give them to men who need them, and the Prospect Union's appeal for old books ought to meet with a very hearty response. There are now so many books are needed, and accordingly a library is this...
Christian Association.The Christian Association held its first prayer meeting yesterday evening at 6.45 in Holden Chapel. The attendance was small, only thirty men being present. R. T. Capen, president of the association, led the meeting and afterward called a meeting of members only, to consider the new names which had...
Consider the second man. Suppose he gave himself up to his natural inclinations and got as much pleasure as he could in a worldly way. Sometime he will realize what he is making of himself and that his life is wholly useless unless he helps along the great purpose of...
more imbued with the spirit of antiquity than Swinburne with all his Greek. And why? Because he read, not to become Greek, but drawn by a passion for the same ideal beauty that made the Greeks themselves Greek. The advice of Cato, cum bonis ambula, holds as good of books...
I will not say with the Emperor Charles V. that a man is as many men as he knows languages, and still less with Lord Burleigh that such polyglottism is but "to have one meat served in divers dishes." But I think that to know the literature of another language...