Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...publication, however, centers in the Philosophical Regimen, a new presentation of Stoic philosophy. In speaking of its author, Dr. Rand writes that he is the greatest stoic since the days of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius and that into his own life he wrought the stoical "virtue for virtue's sake...
...sake of persons who may have been inconvenienced by an outworn pleasantry it seems proper to state that the card generally distributed by mail yesterday morning to the effect that President and Mrs. Eliot would receive their friends Wednesday evening instead of on Class Day is not genuine...
...system under which true development is put aside for deceptive prizes and honors. The reasonable way of teaching is to bring before the child the incentives of that community life to which reference has already been made. For example, modelling and drawing should be made interesting for their own sake from the beginning, and should not be taught merely as a dry means to some future achievement. By applying this idea to other branches of learning, the technique of the various arts and sciences could be acquired almost incidentally, without the undue emphasis which it now receives. The long years...
...country would raise, on the statement of the Porto Ricans, nearly three times as much as is necessary for the expenses of the government. Furthermore, it would place the burden of taxation on those least able to bear it, while the wealthy producers would escape comparatively free. For the sake of obtaining free markets by inclusion within our customs boundaries we must face unjust taxation...
...former times people thought that their political duties ended with a little bribery of the tax collector; they never cared for whom they voted. Now, the whole system of modern reform is analogous to the religious reforms of the Middle Ages, and men go into politics for the sake of purer government...