Word: rid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whether or not there is a revolution in medicine, it is interesting to see the same principle brought here into play that has always been the principle of healing or strengthening the soul. There is no prospect of getting rid of evil in the world: we must overcome the evil with good, that is to say, by the influence of strong men who are not afraid of being tempted because they can resist temptation. Pure, strong men then may have a great influence. They may really cure sick or feeble souls. The moral strength of the college does not depend...
...real race was between '96 and '97. The start was even and the two crews, rowing 34 strokes to the minute, continued abreast. Frequent sports were made by each to get rid of the other but without success, until the last eighth of a mile when '97 drew to the front and finished half a boat length ahead. There was some difficulty in determining the finish line, which ran diagonally across the river. The result was that both crews appeared almost even at the finish...
...must get rid of the numerous theological distinctions and go back to the kernel of truth. This theory seems to kill progress, but it is the theory held by many great reformers, such as Plato and in our later times Theodore Parker. Religion grows by modifying and drawing together contradictions. The doctrine of eternal punishment was formerly preached most vehemently, and a sect arose who contradicted belief flatly. The two doctrines have been modified and many believe there is truth in both. Every religious belief of the last century or so has had a back-ground of reaction...
...trace in it sometimes the tide lines and driftmarks of civilization. The word chimney, for example, coming into English from the Latin by the way of Italian and French, gives us good ground for suspecting that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against...
...concerning the "constituents of being;" first, that they were "transitory;" secondly, "miserable;" third, "lacking in the ego." As the doctrine of faith and works may be considered the characteristic of Christ's religion, so knowledge was the basis of Buddha's teaching. The aim of life was to get rid of existence; existence was a simple illusion; therefore knowledge was what was most needed...