Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gained from One Hundred and Sixteenth street by a flight of steps 325 feet wide, surmounted by granite posts and an iron grille leading to a subordinate terrace, and thence by a flight of twenty steps 140 feet wide to the main terrace, from which the library building will rise. The eastern and western approaches will also be reached by successive terraces, but narrower and entirely subordinate to those on the south...
...Single gold standard would give rise to great evils. - (a) Would depress trade and industry: Amer. Jour. Soc. Sci. XXXII, 27. - (1) On a gold basis, the amount of money could not increase with the growth of population and business. - (x) Supply of gold is insufficient: Report of U. S. Monetary Commission of 1877, p. 15; Pol. Sci. Q. VIII, 211. - (2) Contraction of amount of money means lower prices: Mill, Pol. Econ., book III, ch. 8. - (b) Would injure the debtor class. - (1) They would have to pay in an appreciated currency: MacVane, Pol. Econ., 123. - (c) Would injure...
...living. The third sphere is that of the planet Venus, the last to which the shadow of the earth reaches. Here are the souls of those whose perfect virtue has been injured by the mingling of divine and sensual love in their hearts. Thus Dante and Beatrice rise through the seven degrees of blessedness, and Dante talked with the joyful spirits, and increased in wisdom. Still led by the wonderful reflected light in the eyes of Beatrice, Dante ascends among the fixed stars. Here his eyes are cleared, and he looks back at the earth, which seems so mean...
...doubtless felt their want keenly; but though he desired them keenly; but though he desired them earnestly for Harvard, he cannot have desired them half so earnestly as she does herself. Fortunately she has not to wait for them, as Mr. Hill seemed to anticipate, till the rise of "some generous and wealthy benefactor," though she still must wait for several years. The recent financial crises made it necessary to give up all attempt to complete the fund towards the erection and maintenance of the Phillips Brooks House. Now, however, that the effects of that crises are wearing away...
...mountain of virtue, but is met and repulsed by passion and sensuality in the form of wild animals. He then meets reason in the person of Vergil, which shows him that the process of redemption is slow, and is not to be achieved by one great effort. He must rise through the purgatory of penitence. Dante tells us that there are many senses to his poem. Beside the meaning spoken of it has a political significance...