Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stability of our government depends upon our implicit observance of the constitution. Relief can therefore be obtained only through local interference.-Debates in Civil Rights Bill Record, 43rd Cong., 2d session...
...hands of monks. They devoted themselves to its study, handed downs its secrets to the members of their brotherhood, and continued the good work begun by the priests of AEsculapius, who were said to closely resemble monks in their convictions of the religiousness of a life devoted to the relief of suffering, Gradually in the course of a few decades, the instruction of these monks developed into a full university course of three years in the arts and five in medicine, all of which instruction a scholar had to attend before receiving his doctor's degree. So in the early...
...heavy one. If a man finds life going hard with him, let him give up self and follow Christ. The great trouble with men is that they live in their own way, not in Christ's, they are thinking of their own pleasure, they look for rest and relief. There is no satisfaction in living for one's self. When once a man forgets self. When once a man forgets self, and follows Christ, he is a changed man, he has a new object in life. If a man turns his back on Christ he simply sees his own shadow...
Memorial might make some regulation by which the number of newsboys should be restricted to three or, at the most, four. Such regulations would afford a great relief to the students...
...rest. Everybody has some odd jobs to be done which have been postponed from day to day, and are never accomplished until vacation comes. One day of rest, too, from the monotonous routine work of this season of the year, would be greeted with that same feeling of sublime relief with which the traveller of the desert is said to be imbued when he perceives the green oasis rising 'midst the Saharan sands. It has been urged in some quarters that a recess of one day would be worse than useless, and that the day would be literally wasted. This...