Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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In his collection upon the sixteenth century, however, it is the Reformation and its forerunners to which more space is devoted. The contemporary editions of Erasmus, of the tracts poured forth in the controversy between Reuchlin and the Obscurantists, of the poems and orations and satires of Ulrich von Hutten...
"Whoever seeks to solve the problem of Prayer-and-Providence' (namely, whether Supplication is only a vehicle for Aspiration), should ponder 'The Prayer of the Presidents;' a model prayer, devoted as the verse of Wesley, dignified as the style of Washington, undogmatic and rational - not to say witty - as the...
The February number of Harper's Magazine is just out, and contains the first numbers of Mr. Howells' new story, "April Hopes"; this instalment is entirely devoted to Class Day at Harvard. It is a clever description enough, though one would judge that Mr. Howel's has not seen a...
Dr. Washington Gladden who preaches to us at Appleton Chapel to-morrow night, comes directly from Yale where he has been delivering a course of lectures on Social Economy. Dr. Gladden's name is so inseparably connected with the labor cause that to call attention to his work in that...
Jonas G. Clark, one of the wealthiest men in central Massachusetts, has signified his intention to found and endow a university in this city, which ambitious scheme shall not fall behind Yale or Harvard. It has been hinted about town for several weeks that Mr. Clark had in contemplation some...