Word: searched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Psalm. The Rev. Mr. Gordon then delivered a short sermon, taking as his text, "Seek and Ye Shall Find." A portion of the speaker's remarks were substantially as follows: "Many men come near certain moral truths in the course of their lives, but because they are not in search of these truths they slip by unheeded. It is of inestimable importance we learn early in life to develop our faculties for seeking only what is good. But it is necessary to devote our youth and old age to this search if we wish to find truth in its symmetry...
...believe no other writing has been found. The brothers, as is known, held certain property by lease from the Hospital of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London. Communications were, therefore, opened with the present authorities of the Hospital, by whom they were very kindly received, and a thorough search of the very numerous monuments of the hospital was made by direction of Sir Arnold White, the Chapter Clerk of St. Katharine's. The result, now first made public, was the bringing to light of the original counterpart lease from the hospital to 'John Harvard, Clerke, and Thomas Harvard, Citizen...
...very hard to say no to such an appeal, and it costs me a struggle to say it. I can scarce find in my vocabulary a negative soft enough and hesitating enough for the occasion. Were I living in Cambridge I should search in vain for any such. But so far away as I am, at my age too (who am on the edge of my seventieth year) and with the many duties that just now demand my instant and exclusive attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that...
...appears desirable to record in the Academy that a third signature has been found, the discovery of which was on this wise. At the suggestion of the writer, and with the kind and ready assent of the hospital authorities, search was made among the monuments, under the direction of Sir Arnold W. White, chapter clerk. The result was the unearthing of the original counterpart of the lease, dated July 29, 1635, by which the hospital demised to "John Harvard Clerke and Thomas Harvard Citizen and Clothworker of London," certain tenements in the parish of All hallows, Barking; and the counterpart...
...Papajian, of Constantinople, has a number of handsome Turkish articles which he is desirous of selling to members of the University who may be in search of Christmas presents. A visit to his rooms at 4 Divinity Ave., would amply repay...