Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of men met in Holden Chapel last evening to observe the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Carlyle. Professor Norton gave an interesting talk about Carlyle from the standpoint of a friend. At the end of his address he showed those present a number of personal letters and relics...
After choosing three instances, out of many that might have been chosen, Mr. Copeland dwelt at some length on the noble relation between David and Jonathan, and especially on the difficult position held by the son of Saul, between loyalty to his father and eager devotion to his friend. The whole Bible story of David and Jonathan was briefly retold and followed with the reading of the psalmist's lament, "How are the mighty fallen...
...Shelly; and he commented on the suggestion once made by a clever woman that, although literary ambition would have been more highly gratified by writing "Adonais," there is, nevertheless, a more complete expression of personal and intimate human feeling in the lines in which Tennyson commemorated the lost friend of his youth...
...Christ of the Jews," "Christ of the Gentiles," "The Christ of the Apocrypha," "Scientific Criticism," "Unitarianism, Past, Present and Future," "Imagination in Theology," in the Christian examiner; "The New Religion of Nature," in the Friend of Progress. He also published "The Parables: Stories From the Lips of the Teacher, Retold by a Disciple"; "Stories of the Patriarchs," books for children; a manual for Sunday school and home use; besides a translation of the Critical Essays of Renan...
...sketch, "My Little Friend," by R. W. Jennings...