Word: evils
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope that this action will be continued in the future, and loafers, and strangers strictly forbidden access to the private portions of the building during the hours of exercise. Not only are such persons, even if perfectly innocent, in the way, but in case they are bent on evil purposes, the chances of success are too great in a large building like the Hemmenway Gymnasium. Sneak thieves have too often plied their trade there, and all efforts by the authorities to rid the building of unknown persons will meet with the hearty approval of the students...
...what directed its actions? I knew, at once, that when I lost my body, the baser part of my mind, the passions must have remained with it. These passions, then, were the controlling power in this other side of my dual existence. But they could only act for evil! A great fear of what they would do came over me. I tried to warn the people of the house. I could not move. Then I sought by an effort of the will to make my other self obey me. It only stood there, and leered at me. Then it left...
...peasant girl, or the emperor's finances. When the attempt finally fails, he turns the laugh against the other side, which has been so earnest to prevent him, by showing how little he cares for what they make such a fuss about. "The holy ones triumph, but the evil one-whistles...
...seems now very much as if the vein of the Devil had been worked as far as it can be, and the Satan of Milton and the Mephistopheles of Goe the were to remain forever the completes and most perfect literary embodiments of the conception of the Spirit of Evil. The Devil is unique in that although other Christian ideals have inspired the painter, the architect, and the sculptor, the Devil alone has made a permanent place for himself in the very first rank of literary master-pieces...
...extent to which he figures in the literature of every age since the Christian era, he has always been a favorite with both readers and writers. The Devil is distinctly a Christian character. The Greeks, the Romans, and the Oriental nations, all had conceptions of spirits of evil of one kind or another, but all quite distinct from the Devil. The Old Testament contains a character very slightly sketched, which Christians have generally identified with the Devil. But the spirit of evil who tempted Eve and visited heaven to dispute with the Almighty is only the suggestion of a character...