Word: despairingly
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...unperverted mind will hold fast to that which is best; if you are Catholic, not in what you teach, but in the spirit and end of your teaching, then indeed you may free humanity from a spectre before which it yet trembles, and but yesterday seemed ready to despair." It is such a spirit as this that prevades the entire article, - a spirit which Harvard may be proud to have her sons possess...
...former times it was possible to make a direct, vigorous complaint if things were not satisfactory, but now the duties of the officials are so strictly defined, that a man finds himself referred from one official to another until finally he often gives it all up in despair...
...play any musical instrument, to present themselves tomorrow evening and Friday evening as candidates for the Pierian Sodality Orchestra. For a number of years this first meeting of the candidates has not been well attended, and the officers of the society often have been at the point of despair; but, finally, after a deal of persuasion, enough men have always appeared to carry on the orchestra...
...come: Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." This is the most universal prayer of mankind; it includes everything that can be asked for from God. It confesses the imperfection of the human being, of human institutions. It acknowledges the prevalence of weakness, sin and despair in the human heart. At the same time it expresses an unfaltering trust in the goodness and justice of God. It even expresses a belief that in the end the kingdom of the Lord will put an end to the sin and misery of the human race. Every good thing...
...Violet and Orange Blossoms" is a pathetic story which ought to arouse our sympathy, but we cannot weep for we cannot find any reason for the poor poet's despair. Such tragic events are interesting when written about, but they do not happen nowadays. The picture of the poor poet burning his opera act by act, to keep himself from freezing while writing his poem is well written...