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...group were separatists. Hopelessly in the minority, the separatists are remnants of a band which started agitation for independence during the sixteenth century when Brittany was formally annexed to France by François I. They were meeting at Chateaulin to conduct the annual Congress for Autonomous Brittany...
...give, 'thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor' was not a part of 'the teachings of Christ,'* as you say, but one of the Ten Commandments revealed to us through Moses. It is in the Old Testament-recorded in Exodus, twentieth chapter, sixteenth verse. Jesus's teaching was yet higher. He taught that love is the fulfillment of the law, and therefore the true basis of fellowship. The New Testament throughout teaches that we are 'to seek the truth in love' (Eph. 4:15), and that is precisely what...
...four paintings at the Museum fall in this category of Wen-chi pictures. They are executed with the fineness of detail of minatures and are attested as of great artistic merit by Chinese connoisseurs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century...
President Hibben spoke from a sixteenth century oak pulpit in a Gothic chapel of surpassing beauty. Designed by Ralph Adams Cram, it is the largest college building of its kind in the country. And if it is the monument of a dying faith, it is, in its very hugeness, pathetic. The faith of the elders that saw its erection is staunch and living, and it is evident that its intense beauty will cause a Sunday fervor among the undergraduates. But in the student mind of the day, that fervor, born of music, mysticism and impressiveness, is essentially pagan and orgiastic...
...stood with the tears running down her face watching the yellow shirt of her jockey, Chick Lang. As the horses moved into the turn Reigh Count swung out wide around Misstep, then pulled away to win. Toro was third and the rest of the field stretched out for a sixteenth of a mile to Strolling Player who ran last. When Reigh Count had had the usual horse shoe of American beauties hung about his neck and Chick Lang had been cheered by the crowd, Mrs. Hertz took home the usual gold plate worth seven thousand dollars and a check...