Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...greatly improved his treatment of draperies and imparted to them a superb depth of color. While at Bath, Gainsborough also painted a great many landscapes, which are now considered his masterpieces. He had a knack of giving a momentary effect to his pictures. Horace Walpole caught the spirit of his picture, "The Mall," and said it was all of a flutter like a lady...
...appreciation in art, and he was instantly responsive to the appeal of music. All that he was and all that he acquired, he consecrated quietly and without ostentation to the service of mankind. His letters to his father show that in his early manhood there was manifested the same spirit which was to become constantly more prominent in his later years...
...process of recovery from sinful disposition and habit, and of development in righteousness. It involves the development of the whole nature, - spiritual, intellectual and physical. It is not attained in bulk, by churches or by groups; each one must work it out for himself. It is won by the spirit of God working in the soul; it is God's achievement...
...Boston, Saturday evening. At the business meeting which preceded the dinner the officers of the past year were re-elected. About one hundred members were present. President Gleason acted as toastmaster and the following men spoke: Rev. A. M. Lord, Harvard '83, on "A Practical Application of the Fraternity Spirit;" Mr. Henry A. Thomas, the Governor's private secretary, on "Our Country;" A. B. Haven, Rutgers '82, on "The Bar;" President B. L. Whitman, of Colby, spoke on the necessity of developing the spiritual side of human nature. Other speakers were Rev. S. E. Lane, Union '41, A. L. Blair...
...Moxom conducted the Vesper Service Thursday Afternoon. His text, "Walk in the spirit," Dr. Moxom applied as urging the necessity of utilizing the powers of the sensual life for the fullest development of the moral nature...