Word: state
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...different theories of reputation, and on other topics, it may be not out of place to touch again upon the subject of religion. The articles which have preceded and occasioned the present one have presented - one in the guise of irony - the two most opposite opinions held of the state of religion, or, rather, of what one sees of religion at Harvard; and, as usually happens in such cases, the truth seems to lie between them...
...state of his table's surprising; some play-bills...
...been heard to state, red with passion, his hatred...
...essay on Charles Reade is particularly just and discriminating, and the views advanced are well sustained. Such contributions are far more attractive than those of like nature with the article on "The Duty of the State to Culture," which formed so large a part of previous numbers...
Such, I believe, is the state of religion at Harvard. And it is evident from these considerations that no one man can be considered as an example of the religious influence of the College; but rather we must decide what this is as we would in an ordinary New England village...