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Word: conviction (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which disturbs the whole country, and calls most emphatically for repressive measures on the part of the government. No less than 836 cases of boycotting came to light during a single month of the present year. The system is used to terrorize both laborers and employers. No jury will convict a member of the National League for fear of bringing this engine of oppression down upon it. To punish such crimes as these, a measure of coercion is the only possible or sensible policy for the government to pursue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate. | 5/11/1887 | See Source »

...school the teacher must keep order, so the faculty must use the same secondary care over the outside life of the students. But they are not here to sit in judgment on a man who may commit a fault, to try him, and finally acquit or convict him. But where to make the distinction? here lies the difficulty. As the University is now conducted, they certainly have the right to investigate certain matters, and how are they to tell when the case is proper for their hands and when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1887 | See Source »

...Mill lived? Again, "Saving is not a virtue at all in the Bible." No, and we did not know that, in the sense in which it is not advocated in the Bible, political economy endorsed it either. For either the correspondent must translate his "saving" by "miserliness" or else convict himself of ignorance. But his most absurd remark of all is: "Christ himself was not prudent." Let me recommend to the writer Mr. Mill's masterly answer to the charge of "Expediency" brought against his "Utilitarianism." Is far-sightedness any the less sight than near-sightedness? If you mean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/4/1887 | See Source »

...diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First Fee," a Puritan demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...service most impressive - spontaneity. But hereafter, with a sympathetic pastor in our midst to stimulate us to new ambitions, with a chapel where interest and not compulsion is the motive of attendance, where each worshipper feels that he is there to worship and not to be billeted like a convict, there will be no more complaints about Harvard agnosticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/14/1886 | See Source »

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