Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Just as ecclesiastical and legal history have come to be separated from history proper, so it is only a question of time when economic history will be assigned a sphere for itself...
...number is "A Mistake of the Bishops" by Pierre la Rose. It is a charmingly worded and sympathetic character-sketch, but after carrying one gently up to an apparent climax it leaves one in the air, with nothing to break one's fall, and the return to this mundane sphere is accompanied by something very like a dull thud...
...relationships which bind us. I mean that the progress and elevation of the soul is a progress of discovery, not that it is independent and masterless, but that the lower laws and conditions under which it lives are subordinate to higher laws, and that its bondage in a certain sphere becomes transformed into liberty when it is lifted up into a higher sphere where he that seweth and that is sewed are subject unto Him who is sovereign over both...
...inward joy and power of our life, in every sphere, come from the discovery that its highest obligation rests at last upon the law of gratitude...
VIII. EXPRESSION.Our discussion of the mental facts of which music consists has up to this point been confined to the sphere of the auditory perceptions. We have inquired into the sensational basis of music and have considered also the contribution of the imagination of tone to musical effect. But music is more than a fact of hearing; it is a power in the soul of the hearer. We can almost never listen to beautiful textures of notes without being moved and set dreaming by them. These effects upon the emotional and imaginative natures are often regarded as the element...