Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...excel in vigor and energy, and they pray to be like one whom they think of as all gentleness. This state of things is palpably wrong, but it results merely from a mistake. The whole remedy lies simply in realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic power could have started the viorations that have thrilled the world for so many centuries. All through the Gospels this strength shines out again and again. The power is vast through His long temptation and in His ministry, carried on without...
...language in which Justice Dudley defined the purpose of this lecture, showed how bitter he felt against the Catholic Church. He saw danger in it, for toward the end of his life, was a period of Catholic domination, when the whole spirit of affairs seemed subjected to Catholic influence. Professor Emerton defined first the term "Catholic" and gave a historical sketch of the growth of the Church. The Catholic idea was originally an educational one; a scheme for the regeneration of men. At the time when it originated, there were many systems of philosophy, but the hope of a future...
...instinctively look at the past, in order to profit by its errors and success. And we find, at last, that the middle ages were truly times of origin, since they give us the virtual starting-points of modern society, art, philosophy, and culture in general. The middle ages saw a great mingling of races and they produced a new race with new ideas of these branches of culture. For the original organization of these branches, then, the middle ages are of interest to the modern student, his main methods of studying the times being, principally, two - philology and history...
...paper is one on "Joseph Severn and his Correspondents." The correspondents are Richard Westmacott, the painter, George Richmond, the painter, and others; but the most interesting letter of the series is from John Ruskin, giving his first impressions of Venice. One quotation is characteristic and not without truth: "I saw," says Mr. Ruskin, "what the world is coming to. We shall put it into a chain armor of railroad, and then everybody will go everywhere every day, until every place is like every other place; and then when they are tired of changing stations and police they will congregate...
Nearly 40,000 people saw Yale defeat Princeton yesterday, at the Manhattan Athletic Grounds...