Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...help to good government. It must be admitted that a system which has achieved so much for mankind cannot be lightly dismissed in deference to anybody's criticism. All great measures have been the work of parties and party government means movement, stability and responsibility. But no one would assert that the party system is perfect. However, nothing has been found which would take the place...
...marked considering especially the acknowledged predominance of Yale graduates in New York. The figures which Mr. White has compiled show that Harvard's influence in New York is by no means losing ground as the public is often given to believe. We do not for an instant pretend to assert that more New York men come to Harvard than to Yale; figures directly contradict this. The New York men who are studying for a profession or are taking a scientific course find it more convenient to go to Yale to Harvard. But what we do assert, and on the basis...
Nine-tenths of the sins of the world are those of omission. Some men say that preachers talk too much about people's sins. These men assert that they have not broken any of the ten commandments during the week and that if the ministers do not stop telling that they are sinners they will not go to church. They may also show that the world is not so bad, in comparison to former times, as many think it. We no longer have to carry weapons; statistics show that crime is decreasing. But this satisfaction is almost entirely with regard...
...most powerful influence in the growth of culture. This growth extended through all the centuries from the 6th or 7th, when the new language of France was born, up to the 13th, when a new world had manifestly sprung forth. Arts of all sorts began to assert themselves. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and England all formed a new world in poetic life. And finally in Dante we see the magnitude of the growth in civilization and the overwhelming power of the revolution which had been going on through these many centuries...
...young emperor, conscious that he was the fount of all wisdom, began at once to assert his superior knowledge over that of his various ministers: and it mattered not that a minister happened to be master of his own specialty. Emperor Wilhelm's notion of monarchy is that all whom the monarch condescends to notice are thereby greatly honored and should in return be entirely submissive to the monarch's bidding. Thus did Emperor Wilhelm turn out Minister Gosler. So suddenly does the emperor indulge his whims that the Berliners call him Der Ploetzliche...