Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stage could be laid before the public. Mr. Jefferson is the fourth in a generation of actors, and, with his wife and grandchildren, there are six generations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage, when as a boy, travelling in his father's company, they would settle down for a season in a western town, playing in their own extemporized theatre-the the particulars of the creation of his famous "Rip Van Winkle." how he acted "Ticket-of-Leave Man" before an audience of that class in Australia etc., all this enriched...
That the secretary be instructed to forward a copy of the above resolutions to his father as a token of our sincere regard and commiseration...
Frazer was poor and was working his way through college. Although he did not rank with the highest, yet his work showed great earnestness. His father's ambition, besides having his son go through college, was to collect a library for him, and he had obtained nearly five hundred volumes when fire destroyed them all. Again he set to work, and had collected about five hundred more volumes, when this sad accident occured. The class of '88 of the Boston Latin school have passed resolutions expressing their sorrow at losing so promising a member of their class...
Lysias was born at Athens in 459 B. C. He was the son of Cephalus, a rich merchant of Piraeus. His father's wealth enabled him to associate with the leading men of the city, and to pursue his education in the best schools of Athens. The period of his literary activity began soon after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, when he delivered his famous speech against Eratosthenes. It lasted about thirty years, during which time he wrote over two hundred speeches. The chief characteristic of Lysias style was his ability to adapt the speech to the character...
...child but to some mischief the child had done in its previous existence. The doctrines of this religion penetrates even to the daily life, that is in regard to marriages. Of the two hundred millions of people, there is not a single marriage of inclination. Among them father and mother are indifferent as to the husbands or wives of their children for they believe that all men's souls are but a part of the great soul. Hence the girles are wedded at six or seven years old, and go to live with their husbands at the age of thirteen...