Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...those who are more than well-to-do, is gradually on the increase and it is yet to be seen whether their increase is an advantage. It is a poor ambltion for the wealthy young man to make pleasure the sole pursuit of his life. He has a poor soul who does not appreciate that in this nineteenth century is the grandest opportunity for good deeds and reform. The thing for the man of leisure to learn to know is first, that leisure means work, and secondly, that he must have enthusiasm. He who does not have to labor...
...believing that he alone is destined to eternal life. The speaker then showed that there is imminent in the universe an infinite, immaterial Spirit. This Spirit, acting through evolution, has produced all creatures living upon this earth and last of all created mankind, a race of beings possessing immortal souls and a code of morals teaching them to live in harmony with one another. And, finally, since the same action of the same Spirit has created both the human soul and the moral sense, we have every reason to believe that the purpose of the universe is in some...
Matthew Arnold considered the Bible to be "the book of the people" and thought that no book in its diffusing power, its power of arousing creative ideas, in its power of appealing to the highest conceptions of the soul, and arousing the noblest and sweetest emotions that a human being is capable of the Bible is pre-eminent among all books of all ages...
...include Minnesota and all the states and territories west of the Mississippi and outside Missouri Arkansas, Texas, and California. The number of students from this region is only about fifty and in the majority of cases men from the distant and sparsely setted countries do not know a single soul at Harvard college, are ignorant of the habits and manners of the east, and frequently for the first year or two feel estranged from the whole world. An organization to welcome such men to Harvard and put them at their ease can do much goed. This is what the western...
...choir sang very acceptably the following anthems: "God save of Fatherland," by Hopkins; "Seek ye the Lord," Roberts; and "Sun of my Soul." Through the kindness of Mr. Locke, the musical parts of the exercises are varied each week by the introduction of a soloist. Yesterday afternoon Mr. J. C. Bartlett of Boston sang the solos very creditably...