Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...picture of Hell's horrors, nor to confirm the good by the picture of Heaven's delights. It was intended simply to instruct, to warn, and to guide man. Brevity of utterance, concise expression and directness are the characteristics of the style of the poem. The Divine Comedy is priceless, not only as a work of marvellous beauty, but as an era in the history of thought...
...charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble life are lost to the students at Harvard who never wake to the fact that it is their privilege to pass three or four years amid scenes dignified by the recollection of great men. . . . The associations, many of them priceless, are here; is it not worth while to cultivate the faculty which apprehends them...
...other hand, an attack on this station is of course not nearly so serious as one upon the main station at Arequipa. An attack there would mean not only that priceless instruments were in danger but that even the lives of Professor Bailey and his assistants were not safe...
...individuality, which seemed to him to be a matter of much importance. That the individual may reach the highest expression of his power, he must develop that which is part of his own nature. Every man should learn to value and to use his own individuality. It is a priceless gift, next in sequence of value to honor and health. It is the one power which all possess and which may lead to permanent renown: and if in his youth a man tries to put it from him, he comes as near as may be to the intellectual standard...
...power of the citizens of the "Greater Boston" of which Cambridge forms a part, to secure at a comparatively trifling cost a system of great natural parks, which as the community grows will prove a priceless boon to the people-a perpetual source of recreation and health...