Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first 800 verses of Aeschylus' poem, most of them in the form of choral odes, make a kind of moral prologue. It may sometimes seem to us that the plot does not advance with sufficient rapidity; at other moments the author seems to bridge over the past and present, disregarding the unity of time. He makes Agamemnon appear at home the morning after Troy was captured. This, Dr. Verrall and other critics consider a monstrous heresy in regrad to unity. But the sheer length of the choral odes creates a sense of the passage of time, so that no incongruity...
...moral and industrial regeneration of negro life in the South must come from within, it must be brought about by men and women, educated and trained in negro schools and inspired to help their people. Institutions seeking to contribute to this far reaching service should be established at the centre of each of the greater black belts; and they should as President Eliot has recently suggested, receive the nation's aid. The opportunities for trained negroes to help in the uplifting and bettering of their race are many. But today there is a great dearth of well-trained...
...following books have been added to the Union Library during the past two weeks: "Moral Overstrain", G. W. Alger; "National Cyclopedia of American Biography", 13 volumes; "Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht", R. Arthur; Disraeli's Works, 20 volumes; "The Debtor", M. E. W. Freeman; Goethe's Samtliche Werke, 14 volumes; "The Story of Brussels", E. Gilliat-Smith; "The Law Breakers", R. Grant '73; Hebbel's Samtliche Werke, 12 volumes; Keller's Samtliche Werke, 10 volumes; "The Spur", G. B. Lancaster; "Sir Walter Scott", A. Lang; "A Memoir of Jane Austin", J. E. A. Leigh; "Red Saunders' Pets...
...tendency on the part of most men, Dr. Burnett said, to assume things on utterly unsatisfactory grounds. This tendency is manifested when we substitute our feelings of absurdity, religious sentiment, mere physical pleasure, or extreme delight in the beautiful, for reasoning thought. It shows itself also when our moral feelings destroy our true perspective of the beautiful, or when our feelings for the beautiful usurp our moral ideas...
...handsome Andrew Jackson, in long raincoat and soft hat, striding along with the familiar swing, and flinging across the way the brusque greeting, "How d'ye, neighbor?" The College Chapel will miss him, whither he used to repair daily to take what he liked to call his "moral bath, as needful, sir, as the other." He was the impersonation of health, vigor, and purity, moral as well as physical and intellectual. He was an Elizabethan man in his qualities and temperament: a poet, above all, of keen susceptibilities and sympathies; gifted, furthermore, with a remarkable creative power in English expression...