Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Much of the verse, on the other hand, is graceful, dignified and highly suggestive. "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory," read before the Phi Beta Kappa in 1898, is perhaps the best work in the book. The moral it teaches might be remembered to great advantage today by many of those in quest of the strenuous life. One bit, in a description of a recent Harvard-Yale football game, seems at this time particularly apropos...
...care must be exercised in estimating the probability that the conditions supposed in these exceptions actually exist in any given case. Generally the argument is stronger for the retention of protection when it has become inveterate than for its introduction as now proposal in some quarters of the United Kingdom...
...plains of Galilee, Jesus saw a sower about his work, scattering his seed with lavish hand, careless of those that fell on barren ground, in the confidence of the rich harvest which would spring from those that fell on fertile soil. "There" said Jesus, "is the symbol of the Kingdom of Heaven; with such lavishness God scatters blessings on fruitful and unfruitful soil." And what Jesus meant by the lavishness and prodigality of God was revealed in his own life--a life that never spared its energies, that gave of its richest and fullest powers to the outcast woman...
Both scenes are in the kingdom of the "Birds," who inhabit a region half way between heaven and earth and, in so doing, prevent the prayers and sacrifices of men from ascending to the Gods, at which the latter are greatly angered...
...third act, the conspirators, disguised as mountebanks, have reached the borders of the kingdom. They are busy practicing their assumed craft, when the country-folk break in upon them and clamour for a performance. The Dynamiters comply to the best of their ability. During the performance, Della Croca, as a reporter, enters and discovers his daughter with the conspirators. At a signal from him, the police rush in, closely followed by the king and the populace. Trivia is recovered by her father, and the identity of the supposed king is made clear, to the dismay of the Dynamiters, who themselves...