Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plebian of poor parents. Goethe was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years old Goethe wrote Latin correctly, and while still a child delighted in entertaining his youthful mates with strange stories. In 1765 he went to Leipsig to study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting...
...happiness in the world, or in distributing this store, and that it is a mistake to suppose that he takes away from one man's good to add to another's. The choir sang the following selections: "Lord of all power and might," by Mason; "Let not your heart be troubled," by Trembath; "The radiant Morn," by Woodward...
...most famous of the old time taverns of Boston. The Bunch of Grapes was one of those old-fashioned inns for the entertainment of man and beast about which a thousand historical memories cluster, and whose kindly hospitality, "though lost to sense, still through memory stirs the heart and kindles the imagination...
...winners. Harvard played a beautiful up hill game during the second half, and while the outcome was a great disappointment the whole college feels that the eleven played a game to be proud of. At no point in the contest did the men weaken and they kept up heart till time was called. The Harvard supporters cheered enthusiastically and let no opportunity go by for encouraging their players. The teams could hardly have been more evenly matched and the closeness of the score which indicates that only one scoring point was made in the whole game shows how closely fought...
...movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet of Worms the heart of the people went with him. Princes, cities, and peasantry all took up the new teaching. But there was no united national feeling, and the struggles of first one class and then another for freedom ended in nothing. All the sadder was this sixteenth century because even the great...