Word: christendom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...country began to discover itself in the bands of a wise, firm and gentle ruler. The successes of Grant's armies in 1864 fully established Lincoln with the world. It has been said with truth that at the time of his death he was the most absolute ruler in christendom. He had ever been very near the hearts of those whom he delighted to call the plain people-from whom he sprang-and if Washington was indeed the father of his country, Lincoln was in a deeper, more sympathetic sense, the father of his people...
...some sixteen months ago that the first stories were heard of Turkish atrocities committed in Armenia. Christendom was startled; but it was slow to awake to the terrible reality of the situation, to realize that Armenia is now and has long been the scene of horrible cruelty, savage ferocity, and brutal lust, such as is unsurpassed in the history of the relations of man to man. It is no exaggeration to say that in about a year and a half sixty thousand martyrs have suffered at the hands of the fierce Turks. No longer ago than Saturday there came news...
...Norman-French. That our philosophical and metaphysical terms should be Latin and Greek is perfectly natural, when we consider that Latin continued to be the language of philosophy to the time of Bacon, and that Aristotle and his commentators were for many centuries the chief intellectual food of Christendom. At the time when our literature had its first great development, all the books which scholars read were Latin books, and it was inevitable that they should show in their language the effect of the medium through which all their thinking passed. You will find that Charles Lamb, whose reading...