Word: knew
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speaker then discussed the question of advocating or giving up a case which a lawyer knew to be wrong. The best way for every lawyer is to undertake no case unless he is convinced of its justice. The first thing for a careful lawyer to do is thoroughly to examine his client as to the facts and circumstances connected with the case. The trouble with many clients is that they seldom tell their lawyers everything connected with the case and thus there is a weakness which may easily be seen by the lawyer of the opposite side...
...visibly at work in modern society and Arnold's ideas of culture made room for both. Arnold was convinced, however, that English society he braized too much, and needed men to hellenize, to cultivate the intellect. "The Bible," he said "was not the only book. No man who knew nothing else could know the Bible" Critics of Arnold's system ratner unfairly call it selfish, destructive of religion, dreamy. Yet Arnold does not give one the impression that he was at all times filled with that spirit of sweetness and light to which he has given a name...
...praise of Thee, would I celebrate deeds of men." Prizes were offered to the rhapsodist who best recited, and often the reward of such a competition was a tripod. But far above these mere reciters were the old minstrels who combined the orator or declaimer and the poet, who knew the meaning of what he recited and felt keenly the pathetic and the terrible...
...first lines of the Iliad, just as at present he is taught his A. B, C. For the Greeks saw how beautifully every phrase of life was pictured in Homer from whom as Ovid says, "As from a spring perennial the lips of bards are moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great and noble men without a knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey. "A beautiful mirror of human life at its best," says some one of the Odyssey, and surely no better epithet can be applied to the great author than that which Hallam applied...
...members of this Board knew Professor Bowen as a man of strong convictions and of eager temper, sometimes hasty of word in controversy, but as one who kept an abiding sense of justice. He habitually spoke his inmost thought. He could calmly defend an unpopular cause and he never hesitated to encounter the criticism that attends independent action...