Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Accordingly Rosecrans moved on Bragg, who awaited him at Murfreesboro, on the Stone River. Each general arranged his line for the battle next day, intending to attack and crush his opponent's right. Rosecrans, however, was so intent upon this purpose that he failed to strengthen his own right, and as Bragg struck his blow first and luckily found this one weak spot, the rebels came within an ace of winning a decisive victory. The Union right was forced back and routed, but Sheridan and Thomas stood firm in the centre and, by magnificent firmness, repelled
...ninety-five, you are gathered here this afternoon to catch some fire from off this altar and to carry it with you through life. In a few days you will pass out the college gate and, with happy memories of Harvard in the background, your thoughts will be intent on the future. I might try to strike the several notes of the prophet: I could tell you from the lives of some of my own college mates of how God's judgments fall upon those that seek unrighteousness, - the sermon caught from a few unhappy and cursed lives would speak...
...Last Run of the "Good Intent...
...correspondent of the Boston Advertiser by Professor de Sumichrast's communication of yesterday and by the editorial in the CRIMSON. However unfortunate in its effect the Advertiser report may have been, I do not see how it could convey to an unprejudiced reader any impression of malicious or dishonorable intent on the part of the reporter. As a matter of simple justice to the gentleman who has been so attacked, I wish to quote the article in question; for I think that a calm and unprejudiced reading of it will convince Harvard men that there is nothing in the sentences...
...Arnold makes three appeals to the world. First, he is a poet, though to many persons he means little in this character. In his verse he cares only to sing of the beautiful things of tragedy and pathos, without trying to teach; while in his prose he is ever intent upon teaching. In his essays his great aim is to reform the Philistine. Another guise in which Matthew Arnold appears to us is as the gentle critic of pure literature; the reader and the commentator of the best things, which he wished to see prevail. In this character he wrote...