Word: despairful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...received at Phillips Exeter Academy by funds which, with their accumulations, now amount to nearly forty thousand dollars. He has been the liberal benefactor of Bowdoin College and of numerous charitable associations. He has stood between many worthy persons in various conditions of life and utter want and despair, and has tided over hard passages in life not a few who feel indebted to him for ultimate success and prosperity. Nor has he been generous in money alone, but in personal service, in the hospitality of his house, and in gifts chosen with equal delicacy for the feelings and regard...
...Houghton in a "Study of Despair" reviews the "Bubaiyat" and presents the most thoughtful work of the number. Although an optimist might quarrel with many of the conclusions drawn as representing Kayyam in too dark a light, the conclusions are by no means fanciful, and are upon their face the result of deep study and clear ideas. It is a question, however, whether the Tent-maker of Naishapur can be so systematically interpreted throughout. Is it true that a thread of despair runs through the mystic lines of Omar and darkens all their thought? One long magazine article has been...
Socialism, the speaker said, is indefinable. In one phase it aims at making the state all powerful, in another utterly to destroy it. The general tendency of socialism is to cause growing interest in present life. It is an expression of despair. The present industrial system is said to be a mere struggle for a prize that goes to the mightiest and most influential. But in studying socialism we must look at its best as well as at its worst sides...
Harvard was represented at the game by a small but enthusiastic band of men who cheered lustily for Princeton, even in the extreme moments of despair. Such a delicate act of courtesy and good will is highly appreciated by Princeton...
...opinion of me; and indeed a youth of my turn has a better chance to gain the affections of a lady of her character than any other: but my mind is in such an agreeable situation, that being refused would not be so fatal as to drive me to despair, as your hot-brained romantic lovers talk. Oh, Willie; how happy should I be if she consented, some years after this, to make me blest." It is almost unnecessary to say that the 'Dulcinea' did not make him happy "some years after this," as he so ardently desired; and perhaps...