Word: favored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Conditions do not favor woman suffrage.-(a)Only a minority of women desire it: Sen. Rep. p. 24; Nineteenth Century, supra.-(b)It would involve-(1) An addition of ignorant and degraded voters: Forum II, 439.-(3)New scandals: Forum...
...French department, gave a delightful causerie on California. The subject was all the more delightful because of the personal element introduced with great charm and grace by the speaker. The audience, among whom were several Californians, were in sympathetic touch with the speaker, who, it is hoped will again favor the Conference with an account of another of his personal experiences...
Soon there were political troubles; Steele lost the position of Gazetteer and Addison his favor at court. They then started the Spectator, which was to be issued daily. It was very different from the Tatler, as it excluded politics and was in no way a newspaper. The first number appeared in 1711 and continued for somewhat over a year with great success. Steele created the Spectator Club, and among other characters that of Sir Roger de Coverley. Steele had much the greater facility at the invention of incident and character, while Addison could tone these down and get them...
After the address Mr. Field spoke very strongly in favor of the foundations of a club for the poor in Boston in connection with the St. Pauls Society. The English Universities have founded such clubs and have had great success. The support of such a club would probably cost...
Defoe had made a failure of business, but his able and fertile mind won him the favor of royalty, and he became the voice of the government upon many important issues. He wrote his pamphlets on all sorts of subjects, - military, political, even educational and moral, and in all showed width of range, patience in detail, lucidity, and vivacity. His sentiments found him support with the government, and accompanying substantial rewards and his lively, telling style won him popularity with the people...