Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fore-front of the desperately unpopular cause of Abolition; was a finished scholar, a delightful man, and a thorough patriot. How many men of business have left a better record? Yet the old Puritan prejudice had as most Puritan notions had, a principle beneath that is fundamentally right. Leisure, unemployed, is apt, as Dr. Watts has kindly pointed out to us, to be a source of harm...
...perhaps, too prone to be. It comes at first perhaps, from self consciousness and from a fear of ridicule. Be positive in your attitude, but not dogmatic. Plunge into the stream and learn to do things yourself. Intelligence and sympathy come with experience. Learn the lesson of doing the right that lies close at hand, from the brave action of Mr. Cable in publishing his two books "The Freedman's Case in Equity," and "The Silent South." His action in defying social ostracism for the sake of what he felt was the right should be an example...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Messrs. Wheeler and Winkler. The Right and Wrong of Home Rule for Ireland. Sever...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Messrs. Wheeler and Winkler. The Right and Wrong of Home Rule for Ireland. Sever...
...college who are not blind to their own faults and deficiencies, will be found to admit that their knowledge of geography is in a woeful plight. In this point as in all other matters, we have a great deal to learn from the Germans. There this study is taught right through the school course for two hours a week, excepting in some gymnasia, where the last two years are devoted to other subjects. In the preliminary stage of instruction, no text book is used except by the teacher; the pupils are encouraged to obtain their ideas from actual observation...