Word: taketh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...getting it." President Lowell in his Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel yesterday forsaw the possibility of such tragedy when he took for his text the pessimistic words of the Preacher and King of Jerusalem, "What profit hath a man of all his labor that he taketh under the sun?" But the President spoke well for the present as well, when he advised against future disappointment with a study of the nature of man's labor and the profit to be obtained therefrom...
...speak through the psalmist who wrote: O daughter of Babylon, . . . Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. ( PSALMS...
...purpose have rarely been questioned, and these things are important. One can be a perfectly good Christian without believing that iron actually did swim, although that is more possible than some other statements, but it is difficult to reconcile the New Testament with "Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones...