Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...zeal with which he has endeavored to follow truth makes the worth of a man. For it is not through the possession of truth but through the search after it that his powers expand, and in that alone consists his ever-growing perfection. Possession makes us easy, indolent, and proud. If God held all truth shut in his right hand, and in his left the single, inward, pure longing for truth, though with the condition of perpetually erring; I should bow humbly on his left hand and say: "Father, give! pure truth is for Thee alone...
...Venice Christianity was looked upon rather as a civic function than as the ruling influence in life. Her inhabitants were too proud and self-minded to consider anything seriously but their own prosperity and elevation. The paintings of Venice were not therefore intended to instruct in the gospel, but were rather representative of the actual city life, which was material and majestic. Commerce was what built up the city and maintained it in luxury, and on the whole it is natural that its art should show a development cerresponding to its surroundings...
...rather remarkable that the custom is falling into disuse here, just at the time when other universites are adopting it. Harvard originated the idea and it would naturally be expected that she would be proud in preserving it. Instead, other universities recognize what an inspiring influence it may have and hence incorporate it into their system, while we, having spent our first enthusiasm, cast it aside...
...death of your son. Beside the bereavement which every one who knew him has suffered in the loss of a sincere friend, each member of the class has felt that the loss has come to him as something personal. Your son was a man whom we were proud to call a classmate and who stood to us as the representative of all that was quiet and manly...
After Farquaar came Goldsmith. One may well feel proud that such a play as "She Stoops to Conquer" was written in his language. The sympathy with life and the knowledge of character which it shows together with the grace of its English are irresistible...