Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purporting to translate an inscription on one of the tombs, but the translations were entirely false as every figure was thought to represent an idea, while some of them are only letters. The first part of the 18th century saw much time uselessly wasted, but in the latter part great progress was made and the final stroke was given by the discovery of the famous Rosetta Stone in 1799, which had an inscription in three languages, the Egyptian, Grecian, and Demotic. By means of the Greek, the other characters were easily deciphered. The second source of our knowledge of ancient...
...find some books in the library. All this cannot be laid to the riegligence of the employees of that building, since pure air must be obtained even at the risk of severe consequences; but there is no justification for the college authorities to pass over a matter of so great an importance, and one which has been brought to their notice so often, with such silent contempt...
...growth of religion in the Scotch Universities. Several years ago it would have been impossible to hold a religious meeting at Edinburgh University. Now they have services and meetings, especially in the hospitals, where the medical students often go and hold short services with the patients. This was a great step, but more was required. Many of the students were going down hill, and efforts were made to save them. There was formed a Medical Students Christian Association. A great cricketer named Studd, and a stroke of the Cambridge crew named Smith wished to go to China as missionaries...
...yoke will be easy, and the burden light; but if we follow our own way, we will find it difficult to resist temptation, and the burden will be a heavy one. If a man finds life going hard with him, let him give up self and follow Christ. The great trouble with men is that they live in their own way, not in Christ's, they are thinking of their own pleasure, they look for rest and relief. There is no satisfaction in living for one's self. When once a man forgets self. When once a man forgets self...
...like the beginning of a friendship. The life of Christ's followers is the eternal life; it is following a person, not a thing, and it opens up to a man the only possibilities of the entire development of what is in him. A man may know a great deal about Christianity without knowing anything of Christ. Such men are religious men, but not Christians-they live for themselves, instead of living for Christ. No man is a Christian who lives for himself. There is a practical difficulty in being beset by temptation; but there is no passion...