Word: devoutness
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...observation of the students leads me to believe that there is among them a devout, earnest, Christian spirit and a good degree of profound religious conviction. They are earnest investigators, and the fraternal feeling is admirable. I believe the school, as a whole, I has never been so ably manned as it is to-day, and that it is doing a good work...
...earlier than the twelfth century; and the important particulars in its first constitution were these: First, the separation of philosophy from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect of the eleventh century were the main causes of this. Two classes of minds at this time divided the church - the pious, devout belivers (such as St. Bernard), who needed no reasons for their faith, and the polemic speculative divine, (such as Abelard), who wished to make theology rational. Second, the system of conferring degrees, after appropriate trials. These were at first simply a license to teach. Third, the formal organization...
...impassioned eloquence. Our own University bestowed on him the honorary degree of a doctor. Not the worshipper of rude force, not the fanatical hater of the negro, did it thus honor, but the matchless painter of the French Revolution, the eloquent preacher of hero-worship, and the devout apostle of a gospel which preaches faith, action, and sincerity...
...revelations of devout and learned
...fatal pessimism of the Nation. Behold the iconoclast which rudely defaces the temple and erects nowhere a chime for the devout...