Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...worth if we go about creating it with a blind determination to make forty men immortal whether there are forty worthy of it or not? Indeed, unless the standard of excellence required in the Academy be very high, our first men of letters will deem it no honor. much less an assurance of immortality to belong...
Education, many people go on to say, is still mainly governed by the ideas of men like Plato, who lived when the warrior caste and the priestly and philosophical class were alone in honor, and the really useful part of the community were slaves. It is an education fitted for persons of leisure in such a community. This education passed from Greece and Rome to the feudal communities of Europe, where also the warrior caste and the priestly caste were alone held in honor, and where the really useful and working part of the community, though not nominally slaves...
...They shall honor as their parents, magistrates, elders, tutors, and aged persons, by being silent in their presence (except they be called on to answer...
...James Russell Lowell, on Tuesday last performed the ceremony of unveiling the tablet erected in St. Olave's church, London, in honor of Samuel Pepys...
Besides the honor attached to a good place in the class, there were some substantial advantages connected with it. The men who stood highest on the list received the best rooms in college and had the right to help themselves first at table in Commons, which was considered a great and probably substantial privilege...