Word: mother
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest. This method forces upon us the necessity of thinking, which is, after all, the highest...
another result. God holds us responsible for our labor, time, talents and all that goes to make our life. Then again we can only follow out the text of brotherly love when we recognize that God loves us and brings us up just as a mother cares for her children, giving to no one of us more than He gives to another...
...them. His beauty was of a manly kind and showed the intellect which lay behind it; but his voice was perhaps his chief charm. He was a model for all speakers of English, and he gave Shakespeare's lines with as little effort as if they were his mother tongue. It is not pessimistic to say that they will never be given so again. All these, however, were qualities of the exterior. He would not have been the actor he was if he had not been able to get at the very soul of the character he was representing...
Frank Bolles was born at Winchester, on the thirty-first of October, 1856. His father, John A. Bolles, was at one time Secretary of State of Massachusetts, and later served in the war as Brigadier General. His mother was the sister of John A. Dix, Governor and Minister to France...
Johnson who has been trying for tackle on the 'varsity has stopped playing for the present, owing to the sudden death of his mother...