Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...apart from actual interruptions of continuity, the tendency of musical movement to repeat itself, or to delay upon a long held note or chord, or to change completely in character. A portion of musical texture outlined in this way is called a phrase, subject or theme. The compass of these larger periodicities in composition exhibits a great degree of uniformity, two, four, eight or sixteen bars being their commonest duration. This structure of beats bars and phrases or (larger) periods is commonly explained extra-musically by the bodily conditions of musical and especially vocal, performance...
...only remainder of the old Hebrew literature; it is the most rounded and complete of all ancient Semitic literature. Beginning with the organization of Hebrew tribes, when Saul became king, it was brought out a century later in literary shape. The old Semitic literature has a very small compass. Much of the little that there was has been lost, and many of the tribes had none. There was a regular order of production in literature. First the old folk-stories, then an attempt at an epic poem, then historical annals and finally spiritual religious poetry. Drama and philosophy are lacking...
...West End Publishing Company have issued a new number of their pocket Compass Guide for Boston and vicinity. It is a useful hand book of information, containing full details of all the horse car routes of the West End company, including a time table and distance schedules; railway stations alphabetically classified with times of departure and arrival, trains, fares and distances; location of express offices, post-offices, fire-alarm stations, etc.; list of churches, banks, public buildings, houses and apartment houses. Such a compendium of full, useful information is at all moments handy, and the plan upon which this...