Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yesterday afternoon. This is the first public lecture on Garrick that has ever been given at Harvard. Mr. Copeland, in his introductory remarks, spoke of the present condition of the stage and of the theatre going public, and then at length of Garrick's career, triumphs, acting and unusually complex character. During his first public season, in 1742 at Drury Lane, Garrick performed eighteen different characters, and this versatility marked his entire career until its close in 1776. In his choice of plays he satisfied the romantic longings of the times, without either hastening or retarding the romantic revival which...
...Kurd Massacre of 1882 (Laveleye, 323; Encyl. Britt. I, 312).- (C) No efforts of the Powers give hope of remedy.- (1) The Sultan has not and will not keep a promise (Identic Note of 1880).- (2) Mohammedan Rule is incompatible with civilization and humanity (Lord Clarendon).- (3) Complex reforms on paper a delusion (Argyll, 165).- (4) Military occupation the only remedy (Salisbury. Boston Herald...
...spoke in passing of a forgotten book entitled "The To-morrow of Death," from the French of one Louis Figuier, of Pope's translation of the Iliad, of translations from George Sand, Authors' Classical Dictionary, the novels of Henry Kingsley, and many another volume which had contributed to a complex yet vivid recollection of this distant library...
...saints of the old church used to look, for manifestations of God, not to the complex laws of nature about them, but to apparent violations of these laws, to miracles. In our own times men, by false analysis, think they find contradictions in the universe and even in God. They think of His justice as opposed to His mercy and love. But mercy does not violate justice. True justice, making allowance for weaknesses, for temptations, includes mercy. There should be no terror in the thought of a just...
...This book, said he, is an admirable account of the college from its earliest days to the present time. The writer has a pleasant, rather old-fashioned, literary quality, which lends itself better to narration and comment than to the making of any lively or complete impressions of our complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer's statements are correct, his few strictures richly deserved, his generous praise well bestowed...