Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...finally bring the needed dinner to the poor widow, send off the rent collector, Mr. Pennygrip, and then of course enjoy their holiday far more than they would have otherwise. There is a certain want of freshness in the piece, which is its most striking feature, and so much moral that little benefit can come from...
...chapel pulpit was occupied last evening by Dr. Newman Smyth, D. D., of New Haven. He chose his text from John 8:44; "He stood not in the light because there was no light in him." The truth of these words goes straight to the moral core of things; it brings into light a vital aspect of life which we are apt to overlook. Our universe is a truthful, a moral, a Christian universe, and no one can stand in it who is not at least honest, and virtuous, and Christlike. No man can stand in the truth who says...
...perhaps the best, it is followed by another sketch, "An Unpleasant Reminiscence," which is decidedly disappointing. As to the two stories, "Right or Wrong?" and "Violin," the former is a peculiar but not unlikely tale well brought out, the latter is a vivid piece of writing rather packing in moral tone. A story with a moral tacked on the end is usually tiresome, a story like "Violin" without a moral scattered through it deserves tile praise. A collection of six daily themes selected from English XII. forms a pleasant innovation. The first and the fifth are particularly clear...
...almost exclusively bestowed upon Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petraca. Archaeology is founded on an absolute critic inquiry, on the comparison of antique monuments and with written and engraved documents. Archaeology is a science which, differing from others, begins to repay at once the zeal of the student with deep moral satisfaction. It is a science so noble and fascinating that it helps wonderfully to form the character of intelligent youths, yet it is true that its study requires the spirit of enterprise, plenty of money, a subtle mind, and constancy of application...
...elevating systems, are so strong that we are powerless to express our contempt for the mistaken ideas of Mr. Peck. Of the two suppositions in regard to Prof. Peck which we must make in order to explain his article, - either ignorance of his subject or lack of perception of moral worth, - we are by charity forced to adopt the former...