Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human life. It is not to be feared. It is to be used. "No discovery of science has taken from us our faith," but "when we realize how our conception of the universe has been enlarged ten thousand times, we have a conception of God ten thousand times greater, nobler and more spiritual than was that of our fathers." Hence, although he believes in the usefulness of creeds, Bishop Lawrence refuses to insist on the literal interpretation of any creed, or of the Bible...
...rest within a velvet box" after a performance. Those who see her in either of her two Boston performances will find a more tangible link with the past than mere legend. They will case upon the divine Duse whom D'Annunzio praises with the tribute. "There is no nobler woman...
...last few years", Mr. Byrne concluded, "a feeling has developed among legal men that the law of the United States must be revised and codified to bring it into accord with the principles of the men who founded this country's constitution. I can conceive of no nobler or more appealing work than that, which must fall upon the younger generation of lawyers, of compiling the law which through the ten centuries of accumulation since its origin in England has developed into the greatest system of law the world has ever seen...
...this fear which prompts me to be sceptical and which at present does not allow me to join in the CRIMSON'S choral indignation against the Greek people. It is a noble thing to feel indignant at an apparent injustice, but it is a nobler thing to be sure of the injustice before the indignation. CHAS. G. CHAOUSH, RAPHAEL uL. December...
...speech epitomizes what everyone would like to feel about America, but what we have been recently led to doubt. "We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve; we suspect no enemy; we contemplate or apprehend no conquest. We only wish to do with you that fine, nobler thing which no nation can do alone". The altruism of America is unquestionable...