Word: grave
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Free registry involves grave evils.-(a) Economic. (1) It would annihilate ship-building in U. S.-(2) It would withdraw millions of capital from the country.-(b) National.-(1) It would cripple us in time of war.-(x) No trained workmen.-(y) No shipyards to build in emergency...
...herself to save the Jews, or the engineer standing by his engine as it rushes on to certain destruction. This spark of heroic fire which is in men is God-like; and Jew or Christian, Mohammedan or Pagan, who can look death in the face and say, "Where, O grave, are thy plagues," is victor over death and is redeemed from the grave. Jesus Christ was such a martyr, for he interposed his life to save his disciples. Christ's life could not be destroyed by physical forces because it was ethical and spiritual. If we love Christ...
...that bodily life was a fall from a diviner height; that after the soul had been purified in hades it returned again to its former divine life. Plato, he said, taught in his philosophy that true life was a continual ascent, and that beyond the grave there was a world where purity and truth were not hampered by human incompleteness. In spite of metaphysical difficulties Plato found clear answers for ethics and religion...
There were various localities for the life beyond the grave. One of these was the Isle of the Double, at the source of the Nile; again, the West, where the sun god disappeared at night, was a favorite locality. The place of the dead was also associated with the sky, and a ladder to mount by was often provided...
...moments of deliberate respite, he is open, genial, and engaging; but he seldom is at leisure. At work, he seems an immense will, regulated by very powerful and very precise intellectuals. He is grave, austere, self-sufficing, reserved, and the embodiment of dignity. If only his point of view is taken, his position on every question is found to be supported by the soundest logic; but, under the necessity for much action, he seems at times to give the benefit of the doubt too easily in favor of his own point of view. On this account, he rouses such frequent...