Word: manhoods
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...Master said, "is not such a disadvantage that it cannot be overcome by other advantages more than adequate. Moreover, it is unfair to discriminate against a local boy if he wants to live at home. It should not be the aim of the College to take selected young manhood away from parents...
...tenterhooks, the proud father asks his son the grade. Tempted to deflate the stuffy old humbug, the boy lies instead and tells him that he tied for the highest mark. With subtle and touching sensitivity, Aymé indicates that the boy has taken the first important step toward manhood -to forgive one's father...
...plunks it down on a house, the giant blubbers so pathetically that she hands him the rest. With boundless enthusiasm, the hero hands the wad to the first con man he meets. But in the end, with a sudden, improbable access of intelligence, he "comes into his manhood...
...sisters' Muse. Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and the lesser novels might never have been written if Branwell had not sparked his sisters' preteenage imaginations. Branwell himself reached manhood only to disintegrate. Ravaged by gin, opium, epilepsy, and an anguished sense of guilt, he died at 31. Branwell's own dying words might have been spoken by a more melancholy Sydney Carton: "In all my past life I have done nothing either great or good...
...Colonel Rainborough in the Putney Debates on manhood suffrage put it to Oliver Cromwell, "I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the richest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent put himself under that government." While St. Robert Bellarmine is entitled to the greatest credit for his unpopular thesis in those days that the authority of the Pope over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual, this is not nearly...