Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...literature than almost anyone else." He was an interpreter of life at every point. But there are other guides perhaps as good and although they differ among themselves, any one will serve Carlyle or Emerson, Ruskin or Browning. It is not of much importance how one arrives in the "Kingdom of Literature," so long as one is there. Literature should be subservient to life. It is the highest outcome of the progress...
...administration of some small town, and, perhaps, gets a place at the head of his chosen department in some small city, and tries to make that department a model of efficiency and economy; finally, he is promoted to the same work in one of the great cities of the kingdom. Here, if successful, he holds a life office with the assurance of a pension for himself and his family. Neither politics nor even residence affects a city government in its selection of such...
BOSTON, January 21, 1892."In sending you back the key of No. 1 Wadsworth House, I feel almost as if I were giving up 'the keys of the kingdom,' for it has been one of the happiest works of my life which has centered there and at Appleton Chapel. I wish you would some day express to any of the men whom you meet my sense of the very manly and cordial reception which I always found among them, and the earnest hearing which made every morning service an inspiration and delight to me. I shall hope to meet many...
...alliance with outside nations, and to establish in the people a thorough faith and confidence in God. As he lived in times of great peril and excitement he was especially influential, and, in the latter part of his life, was at the head of the affairs of the kingdom. He stood up for reform in the direction of simplicity in matters of dress and luxury as well as for reform in morals...
...writings, the philosophers dealing with science, politics, literature; but the Jews were so completely absorbed in the religious aspect that they lost sight of everything else. In the prophetic literature there is an ideal picture, a conception found in no other literature. The ultimate end is a great world kingdom fashioned by the hand of God out of his chosen people...