Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Every part of the Parthenon is expressive of its function and beautifully expressive. The construction is simple and forms an ideal organism. Entering between the columns at the east end or front, one comes to the cella where the shrine was. Beyond is another chamber or adytum, which was used probably as a treasury. The whole idea of the temple was a house for the goddess, surrounded by columns upholding a roof...
...private, which with their spirit and ease and charm are usually admitted to be among the best of English letters. This edition, which will be in ten volumes, will present for the first time since the seventeen-volume edition of 1833, long since out of print, a fitting shrine for the works of one of the greatest poets of the century...
...religion of Iceland was of all kinds, though most of the people worshiped at the old Germanic shrine. Spirits, evil and good, were supposed to walk the earth. Slowly, as Scandinavia yielded to the influence of Christianity, Iceland followed. While Denmark and Sweden owed their conversion to German missionaries, Norway and Iceland owed it to their own people. Olaf sent the first missionaries to Iceland, and Christianity began its real work there in the year 1000. The erection of churches was left to individuals and not to the State. The priests stood outside of the political life and formed...
...only thirteen years old, Henry led the procession which bore the coffin of one of the greatest saints of that time, Beckett, to interment in the Abbey in 1213. Fifty years later, Henry III again led a procession which was to bury another great saint, Edward the Confessor The shrine in which he was then buried is still standing in its original place...
...Southwark," says Mr. Winsor, "is now in the see of Rochester, and in the midst of the rebuilding of St. Saviour's Church, the old St. Mary Overy's, the good bishop-not unknown to us in America from his visits there-would interest all Harvardians in the shrine that the probable baptism of John Harvard within its walls has sanctified in their memories. It is certain that the St. Saviour's School, which formerly stood adjacent to the church, had in those early days the father of John Harvard among its governors. Amid the changes which Southwark has undergone...