Word: tells
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...short account of what the Mysticism has accomplished in past ages, he explains very lucidly the causes which have lessened its power at the present day and makes an earnest plea for this philosophy of the inner, the spirit world. "For it is the Mystics," he says, "who tell us of our deeper, truer, diviner natures, and reveal to us the inner springs of life which are the sources of our power. They lift us out of the whirl of material madness and fix our thoughts and hopes on the things that are above...
...positions of man while speaking often tell us very much about the feeling and his interest in the subject. Whatever improves a man's susceptibility improves his delivery...
...really three modes of communication with his fellow man. Three languages: words, tones and actions. The first of the three tells a man's thoughts, the others tell us what he is. The more perfectly these languages are brought into harmony, the more perfect will be a man's delivery...
...junior class eleven went to Andover Saturday and were beaten by a score of 10 to 4. Andover had the ball at the start and went in with a rush, scoring within five minutes, before the '93 team waked up. The criss-cross, and running tackles tell the story. Hazen kicked the goal. After this however, Andover could not score again during the first half, in spite of a gift of twenty-five yards from the referee, who thought he saw a Harvard man make a foul tackle...
...drink again for a year, showing him the misery which his habits brought to his wife and children. He answered, "It is all very well for you to talk. Mr. Hale, who can take your glass of wine whenever you like. It is easy for you to tell a poor devil like me that I must not drink a glass of rum when I feel the need of it." I then told him that I would not touch wine again for a year if he would not, and the bargain was struck. The fact is that we find...