Word: vastly
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...arguments for the affirmative side may be summed up about as follows: Immigration is innate in man, and no country has a right to shut its ports to those honestly wishing new homes. Here we have vast extent of lands ready to receive all who care to come. Our resources are practically unlimited and we must have labor to increase and develop them. Now the class of immigrants coming to this country represent a set of honest, industrious men. A great majority being skilled laborers. They are valuable as bringing material as well as economic wealth to this country. They...
...denominations and its scope is so great as finally to embrace the entire missionary literature of all denominations and in all the Protestant nations of Europe. It will be of the greatest value to future historians while the opportunity which it offers students for keeping themselves acquainted with the vast changes that are taking place in the Eastern world, makes it an important acquisition to the University...
Beyond the mere translation, Mr. Latham has given a mass of notes and comments on the letters and allusions which is clear and comprehensive, showing a vast amount of deep research. It forms in reality a treatise on Italian life of the 13th and 14th centuries...
...realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic power could have started the viorations that have thrilled the world for so many centuries. All through the Gospels this strength shines out again and again. The power is vast through His long temptation and in His ministry, carried on without any of the pomp that might have seemed indespensable among the turbusence and distraction of men's minds when He appeared. His words were simple but at the same time showed when they were they were gentlest a reserve...
...Dodsley's," on the tendencies of contemporary literature to dispense altogether with literary men, are animated and amusing. Mr. Harte says: "The days of literary men in literature is over. It is now the triumphal hour of the imbecile millionaire, the rich society woman, who has nerves, hysteria, a vast deal of impudence, a store of proverbial piatitude, and a continual itch for notoriety; actresses that have more gowns than brains; English lords and ladies, and some assinine royalities. Every fool in the universe, with money enough to pay a printer's bill, has published a book...