Word: painful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Indeed, we consider that the injustice of the present system of scholarships falls most heavily on the men who compete. It is bad enough to be worked at a pace which makes his college life full of pain and which leaves him at graduation fagged out. But this is not all. Under the present system, there is no guarantee that the man who ought to have the most money will receive it. Suppose one man really needs five hundred dollars; the other only three hundred. Yet if the second man stands a little higher in his classes, he secures...
Philosophers have said that the existence of pain and wrong is hard to reconcile with the idea of a God of love. In fact, ever since men began to seek for truth this matter has been the burden of their thought. The result has usually been 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...
...some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement in his own bodily economy that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful into what a fairyland of agreeable and even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath of a pain in the stomach or a fall from his horse. Montaigne more than any other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays is a kind of web wherein to entangle every winged thing (of the smaller kind) that comes along...
WELL CONSIDERED.- Your legs may be as staunch as a Roman soldier's, but nevertheless you cannot bang your knees against a table leg without feeling the pain for a week. The best plan is to mix a little brains with your intention to purchase, and select one of those knee protecting tables sold only at Paine's, 48 Canal street, Boston...
WELL CONSIDERED.- Your legs may be as staunch as a Roman soldier's, but nevertheless you cannot bang your knees against a table leg without feeling the pain for a week. The best plan is to mix a little brains with your intention to purchase, and select one of those knee protecting tables sold only at Paine's, 48 Canal street, Boston...