Word: loftiest
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Religion ought to play a great part in the purifying, preserving and sweetening of society. The loftiest reach of reason and the strongest inspiration of morality is religious faith. The test of the reality of a religion is its power to cleanse life and make it worth living...
Between 1847 and 1875 when he was appointed Professor of Geology in this University, Professor Whitney made important surveys in the Lake Superior and Mississippi mining regions and in Iowa and California. Mt. Whitney, the loftiest peak in the United States was named in his honor...
...this poem beyond the delight, we gain strength and consolation, and if these serve the purpose of helping man in the struggle of life, then never has their function been better fulfilled than in this work of the loftiest of the human poets...
...doubt that in point of attractive coloring, the flowers of temperate regions far excel those of the equatorial belt. The gorgeous highly-colored orchids of the tropics are comparatively rare, and the most brilliant are in secluded nooks or cling as epiphytes to the higher branches of the loftiest trees, well out of sight. And lastly, there is nothing in the tropics which can compare with the ever fresh surprise of the miracle of spring, even as it is seen in our austere and whimsical New England. Our plants, growing under such severe conditions, are well worth studying just...
Phedre is an immortal play, one of those works of the human brain which will live and be admired so long as man has the power to appreciate the highest beauty and loftiest art. The power of the last two plays which have been discussed, was, as we have seen, in the appreciation of character and in the reality and truth with which events long since passed and scenes laid in far distant countries were brought before our minds by the mighty pen of the author; in Phedre we meet with events of the times of the ancient Greeks, clothed...