Word: friend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said: We are not to infer from this that Jesus was a pessimist. On the contrary He had faith that conquered the world. Christ means simply not to look ahead and dread what is to come. A man thinks for instance that he can't spare a very dear friend. Yet when that friend is taken away he finds himself able to bear the loss, for there are resources in us unknown, and, in such trying circumstances, these come to our aid. Most people dread death, yet at the last moment they are generally willing to meet it. We come...
...last Advocate, which made its appearance yesterday, "The Garden of Sleep," by C. M. Flandrau, is decidedly the best, and it is the best, too, in spite of the fact that it is the most pretentious. The story is of an invalid, - a young man, - who, with his friend and his mother, is spending the winter in a dahabeha on the Nile, and of his death there. The sleepy, sultry atmosphere of the scene is admirably caught, while the interest is well sustained throughout. The words too are well chosen and descriptive...
About "Bob's Particular Friend, Miss Shepard" we are rather at loss what to say. The story seemed interesting enough as it progressed, and parts of it, - the paragraph describing the "tea," for instance, were delightfully descriptive, yet the general impression left by the story was unsatisfactory. The trouble seems to be that the style is a little incoherent; one is not always sure what the writer is trying to express, so that the sequence of thought is not every where apparent...
...ladies. The lecture was very instructive and interesting and should have been attended by more of the students whether they intended to teach Botany or not. Before he began his lecture proper Prof. Goodale spoke with a great deal of feeling of the life and work of his friend Dr. Watson who died recently. The lecture dealt with the teaching of elementary Botany and was based mainly on the following ideas. The aims of teaching this subject are these, 1st the training of the faculty of observation; 2nd, the cultivation of the judgement; 3rd, the arousing of interest in natural...
...Allen a taste for general reading. The book notices of that magazine were especially excellent in the old days. The critics probably read the books they discussed - which is saying a good deal. Coleridge was the first author to offer great attractions and he became a guide, philosopher and friend. Carlyle said he "introduces one to more literature than almost anyone else." He was an interpreter of life at every point. But there are other guides perhaps as good and although they differ among themselves, any one will serve Carlyle or Emerson, Ruskin or Browning. It is not of much...