Word: likes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thing to strive after is character; and of this, Christ is the true example. A man becomes a Christian for the the first time when he makes up his mind to change his soul from the very foundation and hereafter to try earnestly to become more like Christ...
...depth of color. While at Bath, Gainsborough also painted a great many landscapes, which are now considered his masterpieces. He had a knack of giving a momentary effect to his pictures. Horace Walpole caught the spirit of his picture, "The Mall," and said it was all of a flutter like a lady...
...night. He spoke on the institution of Ash Wednesday and on the proper manner of observing Lent. He pointed out that Ash Wednesday was the beginning of Lent but that there was no end. The words forty days merely stood for an indefinite number. The observation of Lent was like the climbing of a ladder, one always reaches to a fresh rung and leaves the old one behind. Each succeeding Ash Wednesday is the fresh rung in the ladder...
...careful consideration that there has been too much talk upon the recent books, "Marcella" and "The Yellow Aster." Marcella branches out upon all sorts of feverish schemes and plans for social improvement in England, but in the end she relinquishes all these original thoughts and plans, and marries just like the old-fashioned woman. The author of "The Yellow Aster," though less cultivated and less thoughtful than Mrs. Ward, has nevertheless made it a more artistic work than Marcella. "The Heavenly Twins" from the point of view of art is like chaos, without form and void. Although so chaotic...
...Potts spoke with some indignation of the virulent abuse to which Mr. Curtis had been exposed in consequence of the attitude which he had taken, because, like Martin Luther, "so help him God he could do no otherwise." In conclusion he touched briefly upon Mr. Curtis's home life in the country, which kept him constantly fresh and hopeful. His work went on wherever he was, and his study was a charmed retreat. In the leisure hours, his house and his heart were open with the most generous hospitality. He was a superlatively good talker, and he enjoyed talking...