Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This action of the corporation does not mean that a system of military drill is to be instituted here. It is simply in line with other efforts to improve and increase the usefulness of the Scientific School...
Raphael is the representative of classic art. This does not mean that his subjects or even his conceptions were Greek, although some of them were, but that his method was classic. Everything in his work blends with its surroundings. He was a harmonist, a unity of many things. He established no special element in the Renaissance but he put together the best of everything in an inimitable way. His one weakness was in brush work, but this fault was universal in all artists of the period...
...took as his text, "Beware of covetousness, for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth," from the twelth chapter of Luke. He said a man's life does not depend on whether or not he is rich. But this does not mean that wealth is to be despised. Poverty is no more to be desired than great wealth. Both bring temptations and blessings. But wealth is not good enought to be worth all the efforts of a man's life, and here many make the great mistake, for certainly there are thousands...
...know God best cannot distinguish His hand. On the other hand, if the mirror be perfect there is nothing told to one who is not a good observer. Thus while to a naturalist every plant and rock tells how the laws of nature are working, to the uneducated they mean nothing. So in religion sometimes where God's light is most clearly reflected, there are those to whom it tells nothing of God's love and goodness. In another point this parable of the mirror comes very close to the truth. Light, when it has reached the mirror, does...
Christ's answer to this question,. that what man has given up on earth shall be increased one hundred fold in heaven, cannot be taken literally. Jesus did not mean it as a reward or price for what had been given...