Word: trace
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...earliest religion of which there is any trace, was one in which the principal manifestations of nature were personified and worshipped. This was the period of the Vedas. The early religion of nature degenerated into a degraded ritualistic system with which began the growth of asceticism and belief in pantheism. At this time there came a number of sects, each one of which offered its own way to heaven. There is no doubt that there was much that was holy and noble about many of these teachings. The outgrowth of this period was the idea of the Supreme Being...
...Gray's early life, to the age of thirty, is briefly described in some thirty pages of autobiography. His correspondence is then taken up from the year 1831, when he was twenty-one years old; and it is the aim of the editor to trace the varied interests and occupations of his life by means of carefully chosen extracts from his own letters. These were, of course, largely on scientific subjects; but when the majority have been omitted, there yet remains enough to give an idea of the personality of the writer...
...like that used by Chancer. Barbour was a man of varied culture, a master of pathos and a true poet. His work is full of dignity and some of his characters show that his own nature must have been that of a gentleman. There is in his work no trace of humor; his mind seemed to turn instinctively to sterner things and be delighted in the praise of valor and manhood...
John came from the common people; he could trace no distinguished pedigree and his power was not that of position. His word of prophecy was the important thing. When the crowds asked him who he was and where he came from, he made no answer; he had a great message to deliver and this was the only thing which interested him. He urged only God's claims, not his own, and this made him great...
...view of the present excitement over the recent action of the faculty prohibiting the freshman musical clubs from giving any further concerts, it would not be uninteresting to trace briefly the history of these organizations with reference to the two chief arguments that are brought against the action of the faculty, namely that the freshman clubs furnish a large part of the material for the 'varsity clubs, and that they always net a good contribution for the benefit of the freshman crews...