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...College Library has just received an interesting and valuable memorial of the first school teacher in Cambridge, Elijah Corlet. This is a broadside sheet on which is printed "An Elegiack Verse on the Death of the Pious and Profound Rhetorician and Grammarian, Mr. Elijah Corlet, School Master in Cambridge, who deceased anno aetatis 77. February 24, 1687." The lines, which have small poetical merit, were written by Nehemiah Walter, a graduate of the College in the class of 1684, who had doubtless been a pupil of Corlet's, and was, in 1687, continuing his studies in Cambridge as a graduate...
...Southern France is a happy medium between the lazy, and therefore melancholy existence of the Spaniard, and the strenuous, rugged life of the Northerner. In this southern society where man is more easy-going and gallant than hardworking, nearly all responsibility falls on woman. Always pious and valiant, she bears on her shoulders all the duties of the home, and has won for herself the affection and admiration of all Frenchmen...
...claims, too, that it has always been the ideal of truth and honesty. As a matter of fact the reverse is the case. The Church now denies the concessions it made on being allowed to have freedom of worship in England in 1825. It openly admits the imposition of "pious frauds," and claims that faith need not be kept with Protestants. Whether the Catholic Church will ever abandon its absurd claims to infallibility, it will always be the duty of its members to do their duty before...
...text for his address Psalm 107, 8th verse, "Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men." It seem unnatural the preacher said, that men should need to be exhorted to gratitude to God. Yet many devotedly pious people, while they feel the duty of gratitude, are certainly not spontaneously grateful. This is largely due to a wrong method of looking at puzzling questions of belief. Dr. Andrews then considered some of these questions, and showed that God is not arbitrary in fixing the total store of good...
...literature, are almost completely unknown to the western world. They are written in the most elegant Arabic and are often learnt by heart. The plot is simple throughout, as there are only two characters, a narrator and a clever adventurer, who passes his time in duping kindhearted people by pious speeches. The assemblies are so called because the events related took place before a number of people gathered together. The ninth one describes how the adventurer was brought before a judge by his wife, on the charge of having married her under false pretences. He had given out that...