Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...elaboration and perfection of detail which cannot be secured so long as the lavishness of the public does not equal its critical sense. But if it be said that the sublimity and complexity of King Lear render any representation of it necessarily inadequate, it follows that there is a fatal flaw and self contradiction at the foundation of Shakspere's art. For if his living pictures cannot be made to move across the stage in all the telling truth of their contrast and variety,- Shakspere missed his vocation. He should have written poems or novels, not plays...
...press has been for some time deprived of its freedom, and the fettering of education is merely in the natural sequence of events. But probably the government cannot go much farther in its course, at least with success. It has already reached the point which has proved fatal to most despotisms, and there seems to be no reason for expecting the government of the Czars to prove the exception to the rule...
...work that had been done. It is most gratifying once again after our tribulations in the past, to see the championship almost within our grasp. Only now let the nine keep on with their present steady game and not become over-confident, that fault which has proved fatal to Harvard's success so often in former years. The successive defeats of our most formidable opponents have inspired the whole college with every hope of final success, and in the name of the college, we heartily congratulate the nine on their wellearned victories over Yale and Amhurst...
...city made an attack, but it was not followed up and General Beauregard, the commandant sent word to Lee to reinforce him at once. That general still deceived by Grant's movements delayed. The Federal troops prepared to attack Petersburg again, but the delay of a few hours was fatal. Lee marched into the town just in time and the Federal army was repulsed. The armies now settled down to an attack and defense on this city which lasted for almost ten months. The campaign on which Grant had started out had thinned the ranks of his army one-half...
...doubt that it would be a great gain to the students as a body to give up entirely during the college course, the use of every sort of liquor. In the four years which a man spends in college he is far more likely to fall into fatal habits of excess than in any other period of his life...