Word: happier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Colonel Hallowell who was Mr. Forbes' chum in college speaks of his broadmindedness and generosity of nature. He was always ready at college to help those who were struggling, and in later life he was never happier than when doing a generous act in behalf of some unfortunate who had appealed...
Dante believed firmly that the setting forth of the lessons of wisdom was his divinely appointed task, and that in his work he was guided and strengthened by God himself. He intended to lead men to a happier, better condition on earth, by showing them the misery that they made for themselves by sin, and by pointing out the way by which they must ascend to blessedness. In few other works of men do we find such uninterrupted consistency of purpose as in the Divine Comedy. From the beginning to the end of the poem the aim of Dante...
...poor, deliverance to the captives, and "preaching the acceptable year of the Lord" Let us be thankful that the spirit of Christ is not confined to the church alone, but is in every man who loves his fellow men and is trying to help them to a broader and happier civilization...
...John. He may look at his life as the end and object of all the work that has been done in the past. For him have his ancestors toiled for generations; for him has a college been founded, and for him has the world been growing better and happier ever since the beginning. But there can be no more narrow or dismal way of looking at one's life than to regard it as the perfection of all efforts of the past. Rather, it is but a step in the attainment of the final end. Every life should...
...reading from the beginning to the end, or at least nearly to the end. The editorials are delightfully written and very entertaining, somewhat light perhaps, but what one of us is prepared for things serious now? Of the "Two Sketches," the first is rather the more pleasing - it is happier - and there will be time enough for dismals later on. "A Fallen Idol" is good, very good in the beginning. "The dead silence of him who is drinking beer" is full of meaning. The Kodaks are rather entertaining as a whole. The first is not bad; the second, it seems...