Word: deathe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...named Akiyama, who at that time lived in Nagasaki. While studying in China he acquired some knowledge of an athletic system known as Hakuda, then much practiced by the Chinese. He learned three different methods of Hakuda as well as twenty-eight ways of recovering a man from apparent death. One day he noticed a willow tree bending under a weight of snow but with none of the branches breaking. So in accordance with this idea and what he had learned in China he established the famous Yoshin-riu--"the spirit of the willow tree school." In Japan...
...wish to express to you our sorrow at the death of your son and our classmate, Henry. Those of us who knew him appreciate only too well the great loss you have sustained. He was loved and respected by all who came into contact with him. Be assured of our deepest sympathy in your great affliction...
...problem, Dr. Osler said, is so great as that which Job expressed in the words "If a man die, shall he live again?" The physician's work lies on the confines of the shadowland. He sees that dying and men in the fear of death, and learns of their hopes and fears as regards the life hereafter...
...buttonholes his acquaintances and inquires about their hopes of future life is shunned like the Ancient Mariner. Among clergymen the subject is seldom referred to except from the pulpit, and even the daily press is silent. Only on occasions of sickness and sorrow, and at the approach of death, does the though arise, "Of what am I, and where do I go?" It is often the case that the older one grows the less fixed becomes the interest in immortality...
...living faith in future existence has no place in the modern social and political problems which face the human race. One reason for the prevailing popular indifference is caused by uncertainty. It is commonly supposed, that a man is appalled at the approach of death. This is erroneous, for as a rule man dies uninfluenced by the thoughts of future life...