Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...running high jump, five mile run, running broad jump, throwing 16-pound hammer, throwing 56-pound weight for distance, putting 16-pound shot, 120 yard hurdle race, ten flights, three feet six inches high; 220 yard hurdle race, ten flights, two feet six inches high: individual tug-of-war, unlimited weight...
...legends in Britain. Only three of these legends have safely passed the destructive hands of the monks, namely. "The Gleeman's Song." "The Fight at Frimsburg," and "Beowulf," and they are the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 'The Fight at Frimsburg' is short but alive with the fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told with Homeric simplicity. A deep fatalism broods over the poem, but it is counteracted by a certain manliness. The poem was composed almost wholly by one man and with one definite aim in view...
With Christianity came a softening influence, and though the war-like spirit did not for a long time die out, it took a milder course. Soon Northumbria took the lead in literature, and gave birth to one Caedmon, a monk in Whitby monastery, and the first true English poet. The other poets of this division of the Heptarchy were Aldhelm of Wessex, Bede, King Alfred and Cynewulf. Wessex took the lead in rose and produced King Alfred, St. Dunstan, and Abbots Wulfstan and Aelfric...
Power is a visible force. It almost always shows itself in violence of some sort and its instruments are consequently strife, war, and death. But history shows that power has come more and more under the sway of justice, right and love. Kings have found that the abuse of power endangers their own lives and that to make themselves secure they must temper power with humanity. Social power feels its duty toward the ignorant and all the forces of education and religion are being brought to bear on the problem of their salvation. Humanity, then, has influenced power...
Stopford A. Brooke writes his "Impressions of Browning and his Art." Tomaso Salvini contributes some "Leaves from his Autobiography" and Archibald Forbes has a paper on "War Correspondence as a Fine...