Word: sir
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Century, vol. LX, pp. 500-509 (Feb. 1896); "The Spirit of Missions," vol. XL, p. 524 (Dec 1895); Rev. Geo. A. Gordon "The Gospel for Humanity" (sermon); Bishop Littlejohn, "Foreign Missions" (sermon); Reports of the American Board; International Journal of Ethics, vol. VI, pp. 182-204, (Jan. 1896); Sir R. Temple, "Men and Events of My Time in India;" "Missions and Science" (Ely volume...
...conformity with public opinion.- (a) It has unqualified support of the Senate and House of Representatives.- (b) English public opinion now generally approves it.- (x) As seen in the London Shipping World, London Chronicle, Pall Mall Gazette, St. James Gazette.- (y) Speeches at the opening of Parliament, of Sir William Harcourt and others: Daily Papers...
...Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth and Coleridge...
...every one seems to be anxious to renew acquaintance with the old favorite. The opera was the first of the Gilbert and Sullivan series to be produced in this country and marked the beginning of those extraordinary successes that all remember. The cast will include Mr. Wooley as Sir Joseph Porter, Mr. Murray as Capt. Corcoran, Mr. Wolff as Dick Deadeye, while Messrs. Read and Jones will be the two sailors, Bob Becket and Bill Bobstay. Miss Lane should make a charming Josephine; there being a double bill Miss Mason will alternate with her in this role. Miss Ladd...
...both metals at the legal ratio; or else, and this more properly, the system of international bimetallism, with a free coinage of the metals at a ratio common to the contracting nations. The term would also embrace the various monetary systems proposed by Professor Alfred Marshall of Cambridge University, Sir James Stewart, and Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes. In a wider sense still, bimetallism might embrace the considertion of everything which relates to the cost and conditions of production of gold and silver; to their consumption and use; to the economic principles governing prices; to the legal regulations...