Word: nearer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pater was in no way a reformer. He cared as much for the past as Matthew Arnold and Henry James did for the present. As a critic Pater dwelt most fondly upon those who were dead. In a little book of criticisms, called "Appreciations," we find him coming nearer the present. In this book he speaks of people only, or almost only, to praise them. In spite of Pater's urbanity, we are sometimes conscious of a faint note of patronage in his criticism. The hyperaesthetic side of Pater has been skillfully satirized under
Brooke kicked off from the 20-yard line and the ball landed in fair bounds thirty yards nearer Harvard's goal, where Pennsylvania soon got it on a fumble, Fairchild allowing it to slip through his hands. Immediately afterwards he was badly hurt and had to be carried from the field by force, giving place to Dunlop...
Brooke kicked off from the 20-yard line and the ball landed in fair bounds thirty yards nearer Harvard's goal, where Pennsylvania soon got it on a fumble, Fairchild allowing it to slip through his hands. Immediately afterwards he was badly hurt and had to be carried from the field by force, giving place to Dunlop...
...answer to a call for candidates by the captain of the Harvard 'varsity crew only nine men presented themselves in the trophy room of the Gymnasium last night. At the close of the rowing season last July there were probably nearer nine hundred men ready to grumble and find fault with the management. Such a condition of affairs is a disgrace to the college, all the worse coming as it does when Harvard has a captain who has generously sacrificed an immense amount of time in his efforts to improve our rowing affairs. There seems...
...that in order to defend the infinity of God's goodness they have had to admit that his power was finite. This was the position of John Stuart Mill, - the Manichaean view, though Mr. Mill did not go so far as to personify evil. The Calvinistic view is really nearer to modern thought, when it is expressed in the words, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust...