Word: religion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...elements for the wholes we give it. The danger is lest we lose the former, so much the more important. "The sense of the glory of the heavens is worth more than the physicist can tell us about them." But we are not to look for gain in religion more than in science. It might have been hoped that our author would grant us a faith somewhat purer and stronger than that of the worshippers of Ahura-Mazda, but he tells us, "a godless world implies a worldless God." Yet Professor Everett believes "in the great law of progress...
...Connecticut for that purpose, lest in his youth he should imbibe that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, and which are so interwoven in their constitution that they cannot conceal it from the world, though many of them, under the sanctified garb of religion, have attempted to impose themselves upon the world as honest...
...Mammylukes. Likevise, in the centre the piles of dying; in the foreground the same; and on the left the Hegyptian general a tearing of his 'air and a cussin' in the 'Ebrew tongue, him not bein' allowed to cuss in Harabic, because of the peculiarly stringent nature of his religion! SCENE NO. 2: Death of Lord Nelsing. - On the right you vill notice a French ship a blowin' up, vith the materials on board a goin' con-trary to the laws of the attraction of gratification, and a goin' up instead of a comin' down, - all the result...
...lyceums. The highest officer in a lyceum is called a proviseur. It is upon him that all responsibility rests. Next in authority is the censeur, who has charge of the discipline, and enforces the rules. An aumonier looks after the religious teaching, and everything that has to do with religion. Finally an econome has special charge of everything that pertains to the material wants of the scholars. Then four functionaries generally live in the lyceum, to which a chapel is usually attached. The professors do not live in the lyceum, but come there to give their lessons. There are ordinarily...
...Cain," again, seem to me truer expressions of Byron's ideas than Manfred. There is that peculiar irreverence in both, especially in "Cain," with which he was so often stigmatized. They both abound in fine verses, both show deep thought. "Cain," I believe, develops some peculiar ideas on religion, some very fair reasoning, and curious statements, which, amongst all the grand imagery and marked characters, are apt to somewhat disturb the mind of a cursory reader. The object of these remarks is to suggest that Mr. Taine, in doing Byron's "Manfred" full justice, might have given some...