Word: purely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish peace and happiness, but how can we secure it. The conflict between the good and the bad is torture, and Christ's pure life is a terrible reproach to us. Too often a man can't stand the struggle, and sinks himself deeper in his lusts to stifle conscience. This is the true killing of Christ...
...various uncomplimentary terms. Mr. Storey admitted the charges of disloyalty to party, rather glorying in them and at the same time setting forth the causes to which the independent did owe firm allegiance. These causes were, he said, four in number: civil service reform, honest money, tariff reform, and pure elections...
...pure elections again neither party was blameless. The Southern Democracy had used revolutionary means of overthrowing the carpet-beg rule which could not be altogether justified, but on the other hand the national Republican committee had been in the hands of such men as Quay, and Dudley with the generally known results...
...brilliant the man, the more apt he is to be ruined by the idea that he can take care of himself, that he will mind his own business if others will mind theirs. The whole system of Christian ethics depends on the idea that the body should be kept pure, as God made it. The men who succeed in life are those who live according to this rule. The worst of it is that the affectionate, poetical, generous men of genius are apt to be those who cannot resist temptation...
...Saunder's Reward" is a tale of pure pathos, fairly well written. There is a little too much tendency, however, "to force the well-springs of our pity," as Lang puts...