Word: perish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this change all the stamina of a movement which has right upon its side and its power is one which cannot lessen, but must increase with every day. There are times in the affairs of men when resolutions are necessary. At such times those who adhere to the past, perish miserably. We are living on the brink of a social revolution. Now is the time to make real merit the basis of our consideration, and to annihilate that provinciality and suicidal folly which has been cherished so lovingly in the past...
...criticize our teams, and it is a task for Sisyphus to provide candidates for them; we condemn the lack of daily papers in the library, and let the reading room perish for want of fifty subscriptions...
...Greer preached entirely without notes and spoke in a most forcible, vivid and interesting manner. The text was taken from the 29th chapter of the Book of Proverbs, 18th verse, "Where there is no vision the people perish." "The word vision is here used not as knowledge in the ordinary sense of the word, but what was communicated to the prophets by the spirit of the Lord. A bright and pleasant vision is essential to a man's success in life and the noblest benefactor of the human race is he who gives the brightest visions. The human reason left...
...quite deficient in serious aims. But from this fact I draw a conclusion quite opposite to the one suggested. It is systematized election, which these boys need. Prescription says, "This person is unfit to choose keep him so;" laissez-faire says, "If he is unfit to choose let him perish;" but a watchful elective system must say, "Granting him to be unfit, if he is not spoiled, I will fit him." At Harvard, methods of furnishing information are pretty fully developed. In May an elective paphlet is issued, which announces everything that is to be taught in the college during...
...doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that a man is about to perish in a volcano, this objection is perhaps a good one. Certain it is that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, no one would stop to quote Homer and Horace while the lava was rising. But this is the hundredth case, the solitary exception to the general run. And herein...