Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...changes which have been suggested can be made only by the authority of the corporation, and their attention should be called to the matter. Even if this plan may not seem expedient yet some determined effort should be made immediately to save the digestions of those unfortunates who "feed" at Memorial...
...unarmed band of men and massacre the entire party. Originally they did this as the only means of getting back their country from the Whites. When they saw the hopelessness of their task, they were won over by the specious promises of the white men to care for and feed them. Now they are becoming more civilized and like to see their children enjoying the advantages of that education which is denied themselves on account of their age. The Apaches are more cruel and relentless towards those who fall into their power, more skillful in fashioning and carrying out their...
...great future depends, I think, in this; on whether the university which we profoundly love has grown towards, and shall continually grow more and more into a full obedience to the great masteries, a full acceptance of the great elemental influences and supplies on which all life must feed, into the fuller and fuller relation to God, and universal human life which can alone make her and keep her what she ought to be. Let us see, with a hurried glance at some points in her history, whether there is any light upon the question which must rest heavily...
...been suggested that whereas the most objectionable feature of bonfires is the stealing of wheelbarrows and ladders to feed the flames, the corporation should erect a magazine and stock it with tar barrels and kindling wood for this purpose...
...prejudices, is a sure way of making it a mockery; the studied reserve, the conscious insufficiency of such a service is too notorious to be pointed out. In our day, to make a religion fit for all, is to make one fit for nobody. The prayers, then, should feed the craving for worship which some yet feel; they should have a meaning. But since they cannot possibly have one meaning for all, let only those attend them whose sentiments they express. But above all, let them be prayers; let them be for someone the genuine expression of spiritual life...