Word: famously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...volumes of this collection was an early edition of the Waverley novels. Sir Walter, said the speaker, is not to be judged by his heroes and heroines, who are for the most part filled with sawdust rather than blood. Nor are his large and moving pictures of history and famous personages of the past, picturesque and effective though they usually are, to be accounted his most important contribution to fiction. This is found in Edie Ochiltre, Meg Dods, Nantyswart, and the hundred and one characters of low life which Scott represented so truly and so completely. Another novelist...
...primary object of the society was to arrange for courses of lectures by well qualified men on subjects connected with the history of Harvard and on famous graduates. In accordance with this purpose the present course of lectures which has proved so successful was arranged. Another object is to mark properly all objects of historic interest connected with the University...
...objects of historic interest connected with the College that can be obtained. The society has also under consideration a series of small bronze tablets about five by twenty-five inches which may be framed in oak and sunk in the wall over the fireplace in rooms once held by famous men. These tablets would take the place of the outside tablets previously planned...
...Rhenish cathedrals at Cologne and Strasburg; and Gothic influences in Italy evident in Cistertian churches at Florence and Siena. The ornate character of the decorative sculpture was clearly brought out in several views of the portals and wall panels of these buildings; and one or two designs of the famous Giotto were shown...
Pythagoras, born at Samos about 584 B. C., founded a school of philosophy at Croton, Italy. The most important doctrine of this famous school was the transmigration of souls. It is not probable that Pythagoras brought this doctrine from Egypt. The theory of the fundamental essence of number was another characteristic teaching of this school. Pythagoras thought that nothing in nature could be conceived or understood without numbers...