Word: loved
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...poetry. There is every reason to believe that her court was the resort of all the brilliant men and the poets of the north of France. Fortunately for us it was their delight to take for their theme the novel moral ideals and virtues of the time. The troubadours loved to tell first of all of courtesy as high in the rank of virtues; then of valor, of generosity, of perfect refinement and gentleness. There were other virtues which do not now pass as such. Youth was lauded, age condemned. Without joy, whether active or passive, none could be virtuous...
Christianity is offensive to some because it possesses obscurities. Those familiar with other branches of life cannot understand it. Education increases this feeling of dislike because modern thought and education are characterized by a love of precision which renders many all the more impatient at the mystery which attends the church. As a result, several practical, but none the less wrong views of religion are taken. Some dismiss religion entirely as of no importance. Its incoherence condemns it in their sight. These are mostly scientists, literary men, and the like. Their scope is small: their view of life is mistaken...
...Love's Song," Clay Arthur Pierce...
...Cambridge in America, of which both you and we are justly proud. The memory of our visit to Harvard will ever live in our minds, and we shall go back to the old country with a sympathy and reverence for the Cambridge of America because both you and we love and owe so much to the Cambridge of England...
...endowing its students with intellectual power, but also to give them over to the higher and broader interest of the state. In the questions and aims of political life men like James Russell Lowell and George William Curtis are needed to come forward,- men who, through a deep love for their country, are ready to place their intellectual attainments in its service...