Word: thread
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Briefs and Forensics must be written on thesis paper of uniform size; they must not be folded or rolled; they must be written on one side only, and bound with paper fasteners or with thread. The covers should be of thin, flexible paper...
...that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful into what a fairyland of agreeable and even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath of a pain in the stomach or a fall from his horse. Montaigne more than any other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays is a kind of web wherein to entangle every winged thing (of the smaller kind) that comes along, while he, sitting at the centre, feels from all quarters the faintest vibration that gives promise of mental food...
...stars; Montaigne proved that it was so in his remote Gascon turret. It is curious that Montaigne's Essays is the only speculative book which Shakespeare can be proved to have read. Dante in one sense fought a losing battle, for his life-long endeavor was to keep the thread of tradition unbroken, to reform through the past and not in spite of it. We Americans are apt to undervalue tradition, and for this very reason I think a study of the motives and principles of such men as Dante of great value in deprovincializing our minds. Its guidance...
...Appleton Chapel last evening Rev. Lyman Abbott delivered a masterly sermon on the Bible taken as a whole. He said: The Bible differs from all other religious books in that from Genesis to Revelations it has the golden thread of promise running through it. The Bible is not merely one book; it is a library in itself consisting of sixty-six books written by forty or fifty different authors, and yet though it took fifteen centuries to compose it, it has a unity that none other possesses. It is this unity of promise that bids us hope for a better...
...PORTER.LOST, or taken by mistake from field back of Divinity, Wednesday, a white sweater, almost new, with a G in black thread on lower edge. Will finder kindly return to H. 3 and receive...