Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...imperialism. The tariff is not merely a political question, but also an economic one which has been an issue ever since the foundation of the government. As to the money question, when the time comes, the Republican party will present a sound system of finance. Mr. Cleveland who did heroic work for the gold standard was forced into political exile for that cause...
...masks of dying warriors over the Arsenal at Berlin, to the entire Golden Gate of the cathedral at Freiberg, which is a famous model of portal sculpture belonging to the first half of the thirteenth century. Among the most interesting of the other objects, are the nine statues, of heroic size, of the founders of the cathedral at Naumburg; and the tomb of St. Sebaldus, the most famous work of Peter Fischer, the Nuremberg worker in bronze. The work best known to the public is probably the colossal bronze statue of the Great Elector, at Berlin...
...heard the applause which met Mr. Hammond's allusion to Majuba Hill Monday night. The question then suggests itself, cannot these feelings be made to count for something? Is there no way in which we can make some contribution, even though it be small, to the cause of these heroic Dutch...
...instance, than to a poem on a serious and dignified subject. "English Light Verse of the Nineteenth Century," by H. L. Warner, is the longest article in the number. The writer begins by defining "light verse" as verse "pitched in a tone the reverse of the grand or heroic, a tone which is shattered if passion rise, or ideas soar, or the somberness becomes oppressive." With this definition in view he traces the history of development of light verse from Elizbethan times to the present, reviewing the work of the men who have been most adept in this formof poetry...
Make your whole life a preparation for the heroic deed...