Word: lay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were rusticated, but all who were engaged in the riot begged that they might share the same fate, because they were all equally guilty. The riot was Anglican rather than Protestant in its character; was deliberately planned by English high church men, and was intended to rebuke the chief lay representative of the Roman propaganda in the university...
Then in answer to this question, first, all those views were excluded from consideration which lay stress on rewards and punishments as sanctions of the moral law. What is done for reward is, in so far, not a positively moral act. The real world offers support to true morality only in so far as it can show us that we are not alone when we try to act morally. If something in nature tends to realize genuine morality, then this something may show us a religious aspect of nature. For religion seeks in nature for something that gives support...
...Carlyle," said Mr. Hale the other evening, in his address on the "Choice of a Profession," "Carlyle led the young men of his day out into a wilderness, and there he left them, because he himself did not know on which side lay the Promised Land...
...They should remember with what disfavor the project of charging extra prices was regarded last spring in the base-ball games. We should be sorry to observe any attempt at extortion in a college organization whose chief end should never be to make money, or to have it lay itself open to the suspicion of such a design...
...when the first change was made by the board in the articles of the constitution. For, in consideration of the fact, as pointed out by President Eliot, that the Episcopal Theological School is not officially connected with the university, and that a business connection between the two might lay the society open to taxation...