Word: seneca
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...only marked difference being in the relative importance given to Phedre and Hyppolites; in the Greek, the play centres about the man, our only feeling towards Phedre being of the utmost contempt, such only as we might feel for the lowest of human beings; in the Latin play of Seneca the same is true, but when we come to the French this woman who has hitherto been of but secondary importance, suddenly steps to the front, she commands our attention, holding us transfixed while present and claiming our thoughts while absent. She is no longer the degraded wife, worthy only...
...their gratitude to President Cleveland for his firmness in the national calamity, the greatest which threatened the country since the civil war. He commenced his address by quoting a prophesy which James Russell Lowell delivered a few years ago in Sanders Theatre, in which he likened President Cleveland to Seneca's pilot; and called the attention of his audience to the fulfillment of this prophesy, as shown by the firmness with which President Cleveland has guided the rudder of national affairs...
Samuel Dexter, 2nd, of the class of 1890, died near Seneca Lake, New York, on Wednesday, November 18, 1891; and was buried from Trinity Church, Boston, Monday, November...
...social way he was well-known, being an early member of the Institute of 1770, of the Hasty Pudding and Delta Phi Clubs. After graduation, he gave himself up to business in Boston. His health became unsettled and early in the autumn he went to a health resort near Seneca Lake, N. Y., where he died...
...school of philosophers taught self-command and discipline. Its aim was personal culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime religion, and the writings of Seneca seem almost like a modern sermon...