Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have two very different meanings. One man of leisure is never idle; another always is. The former makes his leisure, as it were, play into his regular work; the latter lives for the moment only, and, when at leisure, is also literally idle. How to prevent leisure from being pure idleness is no easy problem for young men to solve. The importance and difficulty of its solution give to Mr. Lodge's discourse no slight interest and value...
...feel assured that the men guilty of this sort of thing have acted as I have described, out of pure thoughtlessness, - at any rate, such is to be hoped - and with no intention of infringing upon the rights of their fellow students. But if, by some chance, their conduct is guided by other motives, - motives of an improper kind, it is well to let them know that college opinion justly condemns such acts as theirs, under the name of petty school-boy tricks...
...living to-day so simple and monotonous a life, that, if we be true and natural, our lives faithfully written, would not be worthy of men's eyes and hold men's hearts. Not one of us, therefore, who, if he be true and pure and natural, may not, though his life never should be written, be interesting and stimulating to his fellow men in some small circle as they touch his life." Who can fail to feel the truth of those few simple words and the encouragement they give us all, and especially the young, who are just beginning...
...with the age he lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits in common with Wordsworth; but he was a much broader man. He taught the nineteeeth century to hope, and for this lesson we cannot be too thankful...
...with which the concert closed, must be considered as one of Wagner's finest works, which will do more toward sustaining his reputation than some of his later operas. The first theme can be compared favorably for dignity with most modern compositions, while the "Venus" music is ununequalled for pure vuluptuous beauty. It is a most vivid picture of a soul torn by contending passions, and although the noble principle conquers at last, the shivering scales of the violins shows the violence of the struggle. It was magnificently played, and such a burst of applause as followed has rarely been...