Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prattle about Mott Haven without reproof. Ever ready to accommodate, we readily grant the boon, and also go still farther by engaging a new acquatic correspondent who will hereafter furnish to The Spirit a hebdomadal letter on Harvard rowing, couched in the style so dear to the heart of the aforesaid petitioner." - Spirit of the Times...
...quantity at regular times. The adaptability of the human system is very great, and is shown very markedly in the matter of sleep. The insane can sustain long continued conditions of sleeplessness. Every organ and tissue in the body must have rest, or they soon become worn out. The heart must make use of the intervals between beats to obtain necessary repose. The cause of sleep is the using up of potential energy. When we are fatigued by excessive mental labor, prolonged sleep will not bring the needed relief. The causes of sleeplessness are, excessive study; underfeeding and improper food...
...heart of Jumbo, Barnum's elephant, weighing 47 pounds, has been presented to the Cornell Museum; the skeleton will eventually be given to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington...
...story of life. The New Testament is a biography. Make it a mere book of dogmas, and its vitality is gone. Make it a biography and it is the Book of life. Make it the history of Jesus of Nazareth, and the world holds it to its heart forever! Not simply His coming or going - not simply His faith or His death, but his living. The total life of Jesus is the world's salvation, and the Book in which His life shines, orbed and distinct, is the world's treasure...
...Leipsic University, a few years ago, the socialistic element was particularly strong. German Socialists, Russian Nihilists, and bold radical spirits from Poland, Roumania, and other countries of Europe, composed a strange and reckless company in the heart of the university. A young American, of extremely radical views, entered the university at about this time, and it was his fortune to meet in daily intercourse the most extreme socialistic and nihilistic section. B - , as his name may be called, had determined to earn his own living for the first year, and, as a result, he soon found himself in the Convictorium...