Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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William R. Hanlan was yesterday committed to the care of the New York commissioners of charities and correction. He asserted that Jesus Christ sent him to destroy the Capitol at Washington, and then to demolish New York politicians...
...important acts and thoughts, our friend the philosopher would say, are guided by chance! A sympathetic glance, when the lip is trembling, - a sigh, when the heart is full, - these are the causes of passionate affection; but an ill-timed word, an act of presuming tenderness too soon, will destroy the best-founded hopes...
...great distinction to belong. Men of this sort will not care for the slight honor conferred by the latter compared to that of the former society; nor will they take any care to keep up the original standard of what was a society of learning, and so they destroy all its usefulness. No society perhaps has gone as far as this; but some are sufficiently well on the way to it to make it worth while for reform. If all such societies would take the measures here advocated, and adopt some stringent rule restricting the membership to those...
...second term; WE have inaugurated J. G.; and, if you remember, WE seated our honored chairman [applause] in the gubernatorial chair. 'The Union must and shall be preserved,' the poet says. We condemn secession, and we refuse to place any confidence in those who lately sought to destroy the national government." [Prolonged applause...
...different plays were to be read, and the course would be essentially different from that of last year. This autumn, after purchasing their text-books, they were met by a decree of the Faculty, forbidding them to take the course. They were thus obliged to take another elective and destroy the harmony of their studies this year, besides being deprived of the profit and pleasure which they had depended...