Word: mother
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Byron it is impossible to separate his personal from his literary character. And yet a critic's view is very different from that of a moralist. Byron's power was in his personality. He was born into an evil inheritance. His father was Mad Jack of the Guards. His mother, a lioness of a woman, was deserted by her husband, and left with her "lame brat." She was the worst kind of woman to bring up such a child. He succeeded his father as Lord Byron in his eleventh year. In 1803 he met the Mary of his poems, whose...
...perhaps not understanding or caring what sort of a God it may be. But the faith of love believes that there is a God who will order all things for the best, that it must be so because it is best. It believes in God as a mother believes in her son, because it loves...
...which made its appearance yesterday, "The Garden of Sleep," by C. M. Flandrau, is decidedly the best, and it is the best, too, in spite of the fact that it is the most pretentious. The story is of an invalid, - a young man, - who, with his friend and his mother, is spending the winter in a dahabeha on the Nile, and of his death there. The sleepy, sultry atmosphere of the scene is admirably caught, while the interest is well sustained throughout. The words too are well chosen and descriptive...
...education of man for humanity by the method of nature is the one great principle of Comenius. He was also in favor of the equal education of both sexes, the improvement and enrichment of the curriculum by elevating the mother tongue to the first place and the education of everybody. Even at that early date, we find manual training being advocated. Men should be educated, said Comenius, so that when they enter the world they should not be mere observers but participants...
Wherever Comenius went, in whatever countries he established his schools, he first tried to bring about the thorough study of the mother tongue. On this he laid the greatest stress and with what foresight and judgement we can best determine by the attitude taken at present by the leading universities, among which we can with pride and justice place Harvard among the first to take up this idea and present it in its modern form...