Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reason by means of evidence given by the senses. It is then always at war with religion. It professes to be a strong and manly doctrine, while the rationalists sniff at religious faith as something that can be accepted only by women and children. But they do not look deep enough. Is not the evidence which they do accept as satisfactory really based on faith? They accept the evidences of their senses, the dictates of their reason, but they do not know that these are true. They know nothing but that they exist. They have agreed, however, to put faith...
...like Sir Thomas Urquhart's of Rabelais, for instance, but it is almost impossible that any foreigner should acquire that perfect intimacy with the niceties of a language which is essential to the thorough comprehension of an author and especially a poet. Both Tieck and Schlegal have mined very deep in the genius of Shakespeare, of his power and art they were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give us instead: "Here on this bench and school of Time," and defend...
Andrea del Sarto was of the Florentine type, pure and simple. His subjects were always given to him by the church and were ill chosen to express his skill. He was a materialist in his work, and lacking in loftiness of view. If Leonardo da Vinci looked too deep, Andrea hardly looked deep enough, and we find a lack of spirit and feeling in his pictures. As a craftsman, however, he was faultless. The best painter and colorist of them...
...facade of the proposed structure is of handsome design and will be built of white marble. The building will be three stories high, 90 feet wide and 50 feet deep. There are to be two entrances...
...members of the undergraduate body will learn with deep regret that advancing age makes it impossible for Professor Lane to continue active service after the present year. He is one of those men who have made Harvard famous as the centre of rich scholarship. One of the foremost Latin authorities of his day, he has won high regard in the greatest intellectual centres, not only here, but also in foreign lands. And yet his achievements have never been a barrier to kindly interest in students and all their activities, and his honest and practical sympathy has endeared him to numberless...