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...oatmeal, barleymeal, ryemeal, yet that which was used by the higher classes gets a foreign name-flour. Thus we find a principle of caste established in our language by the mere necessities of the case. To bury remains Saxon, because everybody must at last be put in the earth, but as only the rich and noble could afford any pomp in that sad office we get the word for it-funeral from the Norman. So also the poor man was put into a Saxon grave, and the noble into a Norman tomb. All the parts of armor, which was worn...
...this is true so far as it goes, though it goes perhaps hardly far enough. The law also calls only the earth and what is immovably attached to it real property, but I am of opinion that those only are real possessions which abide with a man after he has been stripped of those others falsely so called, and which alone save him from seeming and from being the miserable forked radish to which the bitter scorn of Lear degraded every child of Adam. The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature will defy fortune and outlive calamity. As they...
...Corinthians. Immortality, he said, is something in which many people find it hard to believe. It seems to them unnatural and as its truth can not be absolutely proved, they refuse to accept it. Yet the belief in immortality is something necessary for the existence of life on earth. What would all that we do here amount to, what would be the inducement to work and patience, if there were nothing to look to beyond the grave? Look a little more closely at nature and at history. Has it not often happened that what has seemed to come...
...choir sang: "O Savior of the World," by Goss; "Weary of Earth," by W. B. Gilbert; "Ave Verum," by Mozart...
...fact that Christ was a Son of God did not exempt Him from the suffering of the world. A part of His mission on earth was to learn obedience and this He could only do through suffering. Suffering is not a mishap but is sent by God to teach us trust, submission and obedience. It is a part of the education of our lives and is alone able to make us trustful, submissive and obedient...