Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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With the former part of your education, we laymen may well be content, trusting to your own zeal for work and to the powers of this chosen band of teachers...
...Thanks to the zeal with which the professors of that university maintain the traditions of our tongue and the preeminence of our authors, I was able to secure an audience, and hold it to the last lecture. . . . I felt as much at home as before a Parisian audience. I had the profound satisfaction of being perfectly understood. I could see that my subject (Le Theatre Contemporain on France) had been studied thoroughly by those whom I addressed...
...called the creeds symbols, that is, signs or watchwords. A single word, like Amen, Hallelujah, or the Dervishes' cry "La illah 'llah" (no God but God) kindles enthusiasm when pronounced by many together with conviction. So the Christian creeds, believed and outspoken produce mutual confidence and strengthen faith and zeal...
...sale at all the stores. "It is interesting to note that a Greek translation of "Iphigenie" by Johnannes Papadopaulos was among the books which Goethe, in 1819, presented to Harvard University 'as a mark of deep interest in its high literary character, and in the successful zeal it has displayed through so long a course of years for the promotion of solid and elegant education...