Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Though this volume can be only an imperfect token of the feeling entertained for Newell by the classes which have known him, it will yet be a means of fixing for future college generations an impression of the personality which the college has for years felt so deeply...
According to Moliere's philosophy all that is natural is perfect and all that is opposed to nature imperfect. Now his was the time of the suppression of nature; the whole teaching of religion was that of original sin and natural perversity and in denying this Moliere even condemned religion itself. This extreme and unyielding adherence to nature is seen in all his work...
...progress of those negotiations which concern them so nearly. Some part of the correspondence it probably is advisable to with hold temporarily; but that students should receive from the Committee not an inkling that the very important negotiations are being carried on, and be obliged to get what imperfect knowledge of them they may from the New Haven and New York press is neither necessary nor right...
...sadly inferior in style, in unifying principle, and in suggestion of the past. Stevenson, a little romantic, but a perfect little romantic, has not equaled himself with the great romantics, Scott and Dumas, in trying to paint upon his canvas any famous figure of history. Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has dared Sir Watter and "Old Mortality" by placing Grahame of Claver-house in his scene. Stevenson, a perfect little romantic, has given us, notably in "The Master of Ballantrae," marvels of last-century English, shrewdly touched with lowland Scotch; Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has garnished what...
...sincere. If we cannot be, it is more than useless to repeat these prayers and phrases that are only so many empty words. It hurts ourselves and it hurts the Church. We can bring ourselves, however, to say these prayers and to mean them by comparing our own very imperfect lives with the life of Christ, and when we see, like Peter, how far below what we might have been we have fallen, we can say with sincerity, "Lord, have mercy upon me, a miserable sinner...