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Word: graces (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is not quite fair. We do not want to have things represented as temporary; bear them, accordingly, with good grace; and later on find that they are bound upon us hard and fast. The difference between something permanent and something indefinitely temporary we hardly see; and while we believe that students should and will show their willingness to meet the present necessity, we also insist that the Corporation, on their side, ought to take some decisive steps to remedy matters. What pledge is there that the whole of Memorial shall not some day be turned into general tables? Classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/3/1894 | See Source »

Professor F. G. Peabody spoke yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel from the text,- "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vesper Service. | 3/30/1894 | See Source »

...demands, who is appreciative and lovingly enters into the life of each one whom he or she meets. We are more apt to notice this trait in the child with its subtle charm and winsome ways, "the gracious boy who doth adorn the world into which he is born." Grace is the fairest, the rarest gift of life. We are often content if we are told that we are doing our duty but what would a home be when all did their duty and nothing more, it would be decorus, severe and just, but there would be no grace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vesper Service. | 3/30/1894 | See Source »

...deeply into the "well spring of truth," and in striving after the unobtainable, he left behind him a life of singular incompleteness, but of vast promise. He was neither religionist nor classicist, and looked at things coldly and scientifically. For the blending of light and shade, harmony, and grace of contour, he was almost unsurpassed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art Lecture. | 3/20/1894 | See Source »

...more of a draughts man than a painter, he helped in the formation of Raphael's style. Perigino, however, was the real forerunner of Raphael. His subjects are said to have bodies belonging to the Renaissance, but souls of the middle ages. His paintings are known for their grace of pose and the fervor of faith which they express. But even as early as Perigino the relgious inspiration was passing away, he painted faces just as he saw them in life, not as religious fervor would imagine them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Van Dyke's Lecture. | 3/15/1894 | See Source »

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