Word: pray
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late Dr. T. W. Pray of Dover, be queathed one thousand dollars to Dartmouth college, to constitute a prize for the scholars in modern languages of four years' standing...
...Peabody in the pulpit. The text of the sermon was Psalms i: 1-"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." Any serious mind, the speaker said, would pray to be delivered from irreligion and immorality, but it is not apparent at once that contempt should be placed in the same category and on the same level with these evils. The sin of the scorner is, however, much more insidious, deceitful and benumbing than that of the ungodly...
...could give even a plausible reason for the constitutionality of a bill in Congress - a question asked on a recent examination paper. And if they could not answer intelligently to themselves, whether the promoters and the signers of such a bill were doing their country a service, pray how much more intelligent voters, and how much more useful citizens would they make than their own gardners or coachmen? There are plenty of places waiting for these young men - our national politics offer a tremendous field for the high spirited and intelligent; and even if it is "English" for the sons...
August 30: God appear'd somewt in inclining ye spt of my pupils to ye study of Hebrew as I had pray'd yt god would...
...much examination cramming as three hour examinations and count for almost nothing after all. But an hour examination given within two weeks of the regular examination is an injustice, requiring as it does a devotion to one course equal to that which ought to be given to two. We pray that, for the sake of equity, the hour examinations in question be withdrawn...