Word: tyrant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...creations, he is really the embodiment of the ideals, the aspirations, and the passions, of the time and country in which he was created. We see in him the struggle of a powerful and independent mind against an iron despotism. He feels that he is intellectually equal to his tyrant; that his true place is as a leader, not as a follower. He sees that, although physical force may be on the other side, the government ought to be for the benefit of the people and not merely for the glory of the autocrat, and that it is his privilege...
...colleges, surely the latter are not to blame. The form of cheering adopted by any college is its distinctive possession and invaluable birthright. The practice forms one of the most cherished of college customs, and he who would attempt to stamp it out is but a tyrant and an innovator, whose conduct could only arouse abhorrence in all right-thinking minds. Besides we are inclined to think that the popular cheer is not so much influenced by the peculiar forms of college cheers as the Times would imply, and that its growing short, sharp and brittle sound is merely...
...most venerable." On one occasion he threw a famous wrestler in Massachusetts who had desired to test his strength. But he had an intellect proportioned to his strength of body; for in 1687 when the infamous Sir Edmund Andros sent for a province tax, the young minister "braved the tyrant's anger by advising his people not to comply with that order; for which he was arrested, tried, deposed from the ministry, fined and thrown into prison." He was in fact, a type of the revolutionary minister which Thomas Buchanan Read has described in his poem on "The Revolutionary Rising...
...remark that the most unendurable of tyrants is the petty tyrant. Puffed up by what little authority he has, he struts about as if ready to challenge the universe. To remind effectually such a little tin god-on wheels that he is after all nothing more than a common mortal, is a pleasure that falls to the lot of few. We rejoice, therefore, that the students so energetically rebuked recently the unwarrantable assumption of power by a too officious official. The Directors of the Dining Hall, in branding the Bursar's action in removing one of their official bulletins...