Word: born
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President of the University, this is a rare felicity, that, as we stand together contemplating the grand triumphs of the centuries that have passed, we stand in the presence of that grand nation, born of the impulses that sprang up here and around us, and that we are permitted to signalize this event by our tributes of honor and appreciation to the distinguished, able, patriotic chief magistrate, the President of the United States. [Cheers; loud applause...
Many flowers, such as eel grass and the water-lilies are water-fertilized. The staminate and pastilate flowers are born near the root of the plant under water, the latter rise on long stems to the surface, and the former breaking off, rise and fertilize them...
...numbers equipment, and supplies of all kinds the northern far surpassed the southern army. Nearly the whole of the southern army was American, while one third of the Federals were foreign born. Bounties and high pay aided much in enlisting Union men, while simply love of the "cause" without hope of glory or reward collected the southern troops...
...brutality any more than the most professional verse that has ever been written, we find it hard to see. On the contrary, we think that young poets should have encouragement, not discouragement. If poetry is worth writing at all, it is worth the attention of amateurs. True, "poets are born," but they are born with the poetic genius, not with the poetic art. The genius needs the art for its perfection, and the art needs experience, if it is to aid the genius at all successfully. Moreover, the matter of genius aside, as long as poems by young writers...
Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he was not contented with the age he lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits...