Word: epochally
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...scholars in the ministry in New England, was the University preacher from 1886-90, and is now a member of the Board of Overseers. He has been the minister of the Old South Church, Boston, since 1884, and is the author of "The Christ of Today" and "The New Epoch for Faith...
...Ionic coast, caused the literary, as well as the military, supremacy to pass from Ionia to Attica, and as a result, the authentic recitation of the Iliad was also transferred. About this time the decay of the epic and the birth of tragedy marked the beginning of a new epoch...
...summing up, Mr. Murray said that the races which built up Homer, at length outgrew him, but that the end of the epoch was not a mere cessation, but a change to a language less beautiful, but more explicit...
...Germany's representative at Harvard for the next college year, to succeed Professor Wilhelm Ostwald of Leipzig, in the second year of the international interchange, now regularly established between the University and the German Government. His courses at the University next winter will probably deal chiefly with the classic epoch of German literature, and with German literature and thought of the present day. Harvard's representative has not yet been announced...
...turning of the age toward idealistic views of life. His first book to attract general attention dealt with Schiller's Kantian studies and their influence upon the composition of "Wallenstein." Then followed his "Life of Herder," the best constructed and most illuminating biography of this forerunner of the classic epoch of German literature. This was followed by two philosophical treatises, "The Foundations of Philosophy," and "The Fundamental Conceptions of the Spinozian System"; and, finally by the "Life of Schiller," a book which may be said to belong to the highest kind of literary biography, in that it presents...