Word: crime
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...under British rule: J. S. Keay, M. P.- (c) Financial progress is rendered difficult.- (x) The finance department of Egypt is guarded by six European governments. and treaty privileges exist with fourteen powers not in harmony with each other.- (d) Sanitary condition of country worse: Am. Cyclo., 1890.- (e) Crime has increased under British rule: Ibid.- (f) Only one half is now spent per annum for education as was spent by Ismail: Pol. Sci. Quar., I, 332.- (g) England has seized upon the 176,000 shares which Egypt owned in the Suez Canal and has deprived the country...
...apostles protested save one, Thomas, who is often called the doubter. He was the one to say it was better to go, that they might die with Christ. Yet Thomas, a truehearted and faithful follower of Jesus, often seems to have doubted. But sincere doubt is never a crime. The world has moved forward through doubters. When the heart is sincere, the logic of conscience becomes at last the logic of understanding...
...Crime and Folly of War with England, Professor Charles Eliot Norton...
...work, but in some of his plays tragedy plays an important part. The two works mentioned above include both tragedy and comedy, corresponding to the English drama. According to the arbitrary rules of the French writers, this mixture of style was more than a mistake, it was a crime. But here, no less than in his regard for the three unities, so dear to the hearts of French writers, Moliere's genius broke loose from all artificial restraint. Corneille is another example of the success of which high ability is capable, even when it disdains technical rules...
...everything and there are some things which it ought not to have outside its own power. For instance, there ought to be no system of private detectives, no private armies. The government should reserve the right of declaring war or of putting down armed resistance; riots, insurrections, and especially crime, which breed ill-will and evil, the state is perfectly justified in suppressing...