Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mere jumble of episodes, some tedious, some ridiculous, and some as noble and musical as the best parts of Homer. The poem contains 220.000 lines, with 18,000 supplementary ones, and is held in such high honor by Indians that it is learned by heart. The Indians sit around some Brahmin, and consider it one of the greatest boons to listen to him recite episode after episode. The metre is easily mastered and therefore easily imitated; this quality has led to many editions by Brahmins who desired to express their own ideas, and has made of what must originally have...
Upanishad originally means "sessions" because the people were wont to sit in circles about the philosophers to learn of the doctrine. The ideas of the Upanishad were three in number. First, the existence of an eternal soul of souls; second, the invisible emanations from the soul, ill-understood, but known as mind; and lastly the method of arresting the migration of the mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss...
...fore, and such a man should be condemned cordially; but instead of that one hears him commiserated for being compelled to keep in training four or five months in the year. Such a spirit will never defeat Yale and Princeton. Men go out to the ball games and sit like so many dummies, almost afraid to cheer lest they may hurt their opponent's feelings, and if they do cheer it is not the old ringing, victory bringing, Harvard shout but a slow dirgelike moan that presages defeat. Would that I may be proved in error as to this...
...WENDELL Jr, Sec., H. A. A.Only the following men remain to be photographed. Will they please sit at once? Codman, Craven, Downer, Ellis, Hawley, Henshaw. Hobart, Jennings, Jewell, Johnson, Joline, Luck, Lydig, McGehee, Mairs, Marble, Marvin. J. D. Merrill, L. H. Morgan, Nields, Odell, Rich, Saltonstall, J. M. Smith, Taylor, F. W. Thayer, Trail, Walsh. E. D. Warren, Wilson,. Will those who have not chosen their proofs do so at once...
...CONSTITUTION.Only the following men remain to be photographed. Will they please sit at once? Codman, Craven, Downer, Ellis, Hawley, Henshaw, Hobart, Jennings, Jewell, Johnson, Joline, Luck, Lydig, McGehee, Mans, Marble, Marvin J. D. Merrill, L. H. Morgan, Nields, Odell, Rich, Saltonstall, J. M. Smith, Taylor. F. W. Thayer, Trail, Walsh. E. D. Warren Wilsone Will those who have not chosen their proofs do so at once...