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...Bishop's secretary, he recognizes Robbie as a condemned exile, and orders him to be seized. Here the King declares himself and interferes. His officer, Baron Fundz appears, announcing that the castle is in his hands. There is nothing left for de Lion and the Bishop but humbly to crave pardon; which the King graciously grants. He repeats his offer to the Princess, but she is still faithful to the anxious Robbie, and the King is constrained to be content with the love of his happy subjects...
...impressed is the profound mystery hovering about the end of life. It is surrounded with a peculiar interest for all thinking men. In spite of scientific discoveries, we find ourselves continually falling back on the impenetrable mystery in which death is shrouded. The more we learn, the more we crave. New knowledge only reveals mysteries wider and deeper than ever. Friends and loved ones leave us for we know where. Love remains; therefore the sense of mystery still lives...
...them are thick with great visions of character and truth, and the busy years upon whose border their feet stand are calling them with the abundant testimony of activity and power-must not these be the days in which men catch the spirit of St. Paul, days when they crave the livest power for the highest work, both in themselves and in the world? Is it not there that men are standing on the Sunday before Class...
...results, morally and physically, than foot ball can ever be. Although only two teams represent the college, from fifty to seventy-five men engage in the game constantly during the season. These are for the most part, men of much energy and great animal spirit, whose natures crave some form of stirring excitement. The faculty will do well to consider what sources of excitement will remain, after all purely monument ones have been stopped...
...just as these animals are taken advantage of most easily at feeding-time, so may man be most easily seen and studied, when, forgetting his occupations, his loves and hates, he assembles at the hour when mind and body crave repose, and proceeds, in various and unstudied ways, to replenish exhausted resources, mental or physical. Pliny says, somewhere, of the Greeks, that it is their distinctive quality to hide nothing, and this quality, it is thought, is what gave the Greeks that "grand simplicity," which makes them, for all time, masters in the realm...