Word: religion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...know a word of it. That finished me, and I gave him up as a hopeless case. Some time afterwards it occurred to me to smoke a cigar. I offered him one also. He said that while it was not in the least disagreeable to him, his religion prohibited it. There is only one religion in the world which prohibits smoking, and that is the Parsee. They are fire worshippers, and consider smoking a profane use of fire. And so it proved; he was a Parsee from India, and, except English, did not know a word of any other language...
...shifting, unsettled, and insincere; can we expect that its art should not be so too? Men of to-day are confused by the magnitude and the number of the questions which Religion, Science, Literature, and Philosophy put to them so sharply and so remorselessly. Is it strange, then, that they are without convictions, and therefore fail...
...uses it, is equivalent to our gentleman, and the meaning of bourgeois must be familiar to every one with the slightest familiarity with French literature. In passing, however, we may say generally that the difference between bourgeois and gentlemen is that the former are governed in their conduct by religion as they understand it, and the latter by their sense of honor.* The term artiste, however, requires more explanation: an artiste, then, is a person, most likely of bourgeois extraction, who somehow or other picks up a taste and appreciation for literature, or art, or what not, which raises...
...countries and under all forms of religion signal events of public and private importance have been commemorated by proper ceremonies. Paganism as well as Christianity celebrated the coming of age, the safe return from sea, and numberless other similar incidents. Nothing is more grateful to the human heart in its right state than a sense of gratitude, and nothing more becoming than its expression...
...mean by that term "the repetition of a creed after it has become a phrase by the cooling of that white-hot conviction which once made it both the light and warmth of the soul," as Mr. Lowell defines it. But however this may be in regard to religion and such indifferent matters, one cannot be so sure of a college man's hatred of cant when he comes face to face with something in regard to which his prejudice or his passion may be excited. It is for this reason that I wish to offer an apology...