Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...April day comes in the evening when the clouds, scattered by a fresh west wind, float airliy away, reflecting the golden rays of the setting sun. This is the old age which we are to look forward to. He who walks with God has laid up for himself a crown of rejoicing which, if he received it not in this world, is so close to him that it is reflected on his brow in his last moments...
...laws of England in this respect are similar to those in force here. Religious tribunals in England can derive no power from the crown; they must turn for authority to the law courts where all religions are held to be equal...
...equal, he thinks that he has made a great step and that he is far ahead of other people. Really all he has done is to succeed in coming back to the natural state of things. He looks at the idea of universal brotherhood as the crown of his civilization but it is the base of all true civilization. Our ways of teaching are to blame for the wrong ideas that we have of the distinctions between men. The first thing we learn in geography is that we are civilized and that many of the other races are barbarians whom...
Houghton, Mifflin and Company have just published from the Riverside Press the "Letters of Asa Gray," edited by Jane Loring Gray. The book is in two volumes, crown octavo, with several portraits of Dr. Gray, and a few illustrations of the Botanic Garden...
...passage of this particular bill is desirable. (1) The general system of the bill has proved successful in the Norway-Sweden Union, the Austro-Hungarian Union, and the United States. Bryce, London Times, Feb. 14. (2) The supremacy of Parliament is retained in the right of the Crown Veto. (3) The retention of Irish members at Westminster is necessary for protection of Irish in Imperial matters. (4) Two Houses has been found by experience to be the best legislative scheme. (5) The Protestant minority is protected by the division of the legislature and by special provisions of the bill...