Word: sound
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...SALE.- Bay pacing mare, 15 hands and 1 - 2 in height, weight 950, solid color, (bay), perfectly sound and kind. She can go a mile in 2.34 in road buggy. Saddle horse, a Kentucky thoroughbred, height 15 - 2, chestnut, weight about 1,000 lbs., fast runner and hurdler; has won two races. Two very promising young horses. These horses can be driven together now in three minutes. The youngest, "Fashion," is fully sixteen hands, and is a strong and powerful looking horse in every way, and is thoroughly broken and weighs about 1,100 pounds. His sister, 15 - 1, weight...
...last night in their rooms in the Scientific School. He took his text from Colossians iii, 23, "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men." He said: These closing chapters of Paul's epistles are always full of practical suggestions and sound principles, and are very helpful to everyone. This passage suggests three thoughts: First, breadth of Christian service. This is a practical age, and the pressure towards earnest and exacting work is so great that many men seem to find little time for religious work. But they make their great mistake...
...purpose of advancing the rights of men rather than the rights of property. The specific plan was to prevent slavery and to limit the right of property in man. The leading principles of the Republican party are for the rights of men; secondly the principles of the nation; then sound currency; and the protective tariff for revenue; civil service reform; and finally, in a word - progress. An honest man who differs from me and our party on Tariff Reform must judge between two questions and strike a balance governing himself accordingly. If a man votes with the Democratic party...
...Society made an effort to help it along. The result has been that from a dozen to twenty fellows have gone in more or less regularly and have tried to lead the singing. The theatre, however, requires a chorus much larger than this to get a fair volume of sound and consequently the singing has several times been wretchedly weak...
Saint Paul often says of certain things "I know," or "we k ?," not giving any reason for the knowledge or any proof that it is sound. We all seem to have more or less of this feeling in our own lives. We are convinced of some things which do not owe their firmness for us to logic and which skepticism could never take away. Five great facts may be mentioned concerning which this certitude may be felt. The first is one's existence; an "I" using the body as an instrument, superior to it. Another certitude to many...