Word: personal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pilgrims March" from the symphony "Harold in Italy" by Berlioz has a peculiar history which accounts for its peculiar character. It was written in 1833 and was conceived with the idea of representing a person by an instrument, and the circumstances about that person's life by the rest of the orchestra. The wanderings of this hero are expressed in the most remarkable way by the variations in the viola part. This solo instrument carries an air through the whole piece, which, while it is always in harmony with the rest of the parts is always entirely different from them...
...shall we know the truth? Truth is life, - God's life, and the soul that partakes of the life of God, partakes of the truth of God Christ was was such a one: I am the truth and the life. Each one of us is a priest to some person or other, and there is constant need of men in the world to act as priests, to stand between the living and the dead. In political life and in business life this is the overwhelming need...
...Table Association remain unpublished there must of course remain considerable difficulty in settling the exact cause of the debt incurred by it. At the same time it seems probable that far too much blame is put on the shoulders of the treasurer by the public. He is the only person at present intimately connected with the affairs of the Association and adverse criticism of any kind on the Association in general seems to fall on him. There seems to have been no centralizing of the entire management of the affairs of the Association in one man who could have given...
...driven by their permanent hostility to each other to change from the type of federal Union to that of consolidated governments. In this alteration all chance of local autonomy would disappear, probably never to exist again on this continent. Moreover, I saw plainly, as did every other rational person of my acquaintance, that the strife concerning slavery would afford a perennial source of war-breeding trouble between the North and the South...
...Monday before the game all tickets, 2000 in number, (including all tickets, if any, remaining unsold under 1, 2, 3 and 4) are to be put on sale as follows: Tickets to be sold only to graduates and undergraduates applying in person. No one having received tickets under 2a to be allowed to buy, only four tickets to be sold to any one person without an order, and no order to be good for more than six, or to be given after the sale opens...