Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boarding-place for those of its students who desire to economize; care should at least be taken that these students should not get the impression that their efforts to provide such a boarding-place for themselves may be interfered with at the pleasure of the Corporation. As in the reign of George III. ministers were continually called upon in the House of Commons to deny, if possible, the existence of any unseen "influence behind the throne," so, on a smaller scale, there should be some means for our officers to declare publicly that they have not been unduly hindered...
...period left out is that of the Reformation, a period at once most important and most interesting. In England,* the entire Tudor dynasty is thus omitted; in France, we lose the important reign of Louis XI., the period of the struggle with Burgundy, and of the final consolidation of the kingdom, the reign of Francis I., and the religious wars. In Germany, we lose Luther and the whole Reformation; in the Low Countries, the tyranny of Philip II. and the rise of the Dutch Republic. To suppose that a student will carefully study this period by himself is expecting rather...
Words, ever words! We know well enough how to talk. Do we know how to think? Do we know how to act? For it is only action that tells in this world; action alone accomplishes anything great. Has not the reign of talkers been fatal to us? The spirit of our modern times demands of us something other than the power to arrange syllables, or scan the verses of Plautus. The time is no more when we could devote ten years of our life to so sterile an occupation. What need have we to-day to make Mithridates speak barbarous...
Beneath the cruel gods' oppressing reign...
...still the lands of Saturn's reign were telling...