Word: prime
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This indicates the most important phase of the value of Thucydides's historical work, namely, trustworthiness. Although it took a large amount of firm independence, Thucydides departed entirely from historical methods current in his day and emphasized accuracy as the prime necessity of history...
...book was intended solely for the author it was written in a form that was practically impossible for another man to decipher. Hence arose the practice of a writer attaching to himself a disciple, who would be instructed to read his master's book. This was a prime necessity in order that records might be handed down. The best instance of this sort of a traditional book is Callisthenes' "Life of Alexander." With this as an example we may follow the various forms which such books have taken. There are not only widely differing translations in the various languages...
...sometimes abused, when the experience of every good preparatory school shows that the abuse is in no shape necessarily attendant upon the game. We cannot afford to turn out of college men who shrink from physical effort or from a little physical pain. In any republic courage is a prime necessity for the average citizen if he is to be a good citizen; and he needs physical courage no less than moral courage, the courage, that dares as well as the courage that endures, the courage that will fight valiantly alike against the foes of the soul and the foes...
Small is the use of those educated men who in after life meet no one but themselves, and gather in parlors to discuss wrong conditions which they do not understand and to advocate remedies which have the prime defect of being unworkable. The judgment on practical affairs, political and social, of educated men who keep aloof from the conditions of practical life, is apt to be valueless to those other men who do really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom...
Everybody's--"Georges Clemenceau--Prime Minister of France," by W. M. Fullerton '86; "The Opera," by W. J. Henderson...