Word: heathenism
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...went to work to find out all about it. I began by reading an account of the Russian advance; the first town I saw mentioned was Kars. Keeping to my intention of getting up the war thoroughly, I turned to the map to see where this heathen citadel was situated. After looking for a long time in the wrong place, I was successful, - a result which I had expected would give me a great deal of pleasure. But when I came to compare my feelings after finding Kars with my state of mind before its discovery, I could not perceive...
That each should have a heathen name...
...gods of the conquered heathen...
...literary butterfly resembles those just mentioned in their nomadic habits; but they are guided not so much by pleasure as by the ambition to be considered learned in the literary field. They fly rapidly from George Eliot to Moliere, from the "Critique of Pure Reason" to the "Heathen Chinee," from Aldrich to Schiller, not because they are dissatisfied with what they taste, but because they seek from the pages of all authors brilliant colors with which to tinge the "winged words" of their conversation...
...editors have also coolly appropriated "The Heathen Passee...