Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of his personal ambition. He was then forced to throw himself into the arms of his former opponents, and his successes have been due to conservative votes, and not to his personal following. The conservatives only use him as a weapon against the republicans, and are ready to desert him at any moment...
...German dinner held by the Deutscher Verein on Monday evening at Young's Hotel was a great success. The eighteen members present enjoyed an excellent meal served in Berlin scyle (except for the colored waiters), and were treated in the intervals between the courses and after desert by a rarefeast of reason and flow of soul. Under the eloquent presidency of Mr. Winkler, the following toasts were made and responded to: Conference Francaise and die Schlacht bei Sedan, Mr. Villard; Der Massigkeitsvereinler and seine Stellung zur deutschen Kultur, Mr. Hoffmanu; Die deutsche Gemuthlichkeit, das funfte Temperament, Mr. Bailey; Die deutsche...
...northern part of Arabia is occupied by vast sandy deserts, which are inhabited by the roving Bedouin tribes. The Bedouins love the wild, untrammelled freedom of desert life, and despise the dwellers in the cities. Hence it is not surprising that only two cities, Mecca and Medina, exist within their borders. The three characteristics of the Arab race are, tribal isolation, love of poetry, and utter lack of religion. Union of the scattered tribes was impossible, and the people remained dormant for centuries, on account of the lack of combined effort. War was the business life and poetry the only...
...idols endangered the commercial prosperity of the city, as the pilgrims afforded the chief source of revenue. The hard-headed merchants, who had enlarged their minds by travel, were by no means as captivated by the doctrine of the would-be reformer as were the savage tribes of the desert. Mecca surrendered, not to the religion or personal influence of the prophet, but to a superior armed force, and that only when by the complete coercion of the roving tribes, their commercial supremacy was no longer in danger...
...said that he had examined all the essays in the New Testament in which Christ is said to have shown anger towards them about Him and that he had found those classes of persons towards whom the anger had been drawn; first, those who endeavored to tempt Him to desert His mission and to put his power to a wrong use; second, those who used hypocrisy and feigned piety as cloaks for iniquity; third, those who wilfully rejected the truth or who prevented it for their own interest. Dr. Fisher discovered in the examples he read of Christ's indignation...