Word: prophete
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...dear fellow, you and I could manage to give them the slip? Run away from them, eh?" He uttered a timid little chuckle, and at that moment an innumerable host of hours began a ballet d'action illustrative of a series of events in the career of the Prophet. It was obvious that my poor uncomplaining old friend was really very miserable. The "thornless loto trees" were all thorny to him, and the "tal'h trees with piles of fruit, the outspread shade, and water outpoured" could not comfort him in his really very natural shyness. A happy thought occurred...
...first given to the venerated man whom we commemorate this day, first to strike the key note in the character of this people ; first to perceive with a prophet's foresight and to promote with a princely liberality, considering his means, that connection between private munificence and public education, which, well understood and pursued by others, has given to New England no small portion of her name and praise." Previous to 1765 America can hardly be said to have had either a national life or a national literature ; therefore she has neither great statesmen, theologians nor scholars. But among such...
...discovers that in giving a degree to a particular person the college will impair its moral standing and lower the value of its diplomas with all respectable and thoughtful men, it is its duty not to give it. Moreover, it cannot afford, any more than any apostle, or prophet, or moralist, or minister, to do a wrong thing just once more. The time for every man or society to stop doing wrong is now. - [New York Evening Post...
Much as we would wish, we cannot congratulate our esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, on its success as a base-ball prophet. Brown does not seem as yet to be taking a very decided lead in the college championship race, nor did the freshman game with Yale result so favorably as we had hoped...
...great art of politics. I have seen the list of sophomore class officers in a neighboring college, and, for ingenuity and fertility of resource, it certainly surpasses anything attained with us. Here it is: President, vice-president, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, treasurer, marshal, orator, poet, historian, statistician, reporter, joker, prophet, besides the usual committees, etc. - and all this in the sophomore class! By senior year and class day to what proportions will this list have swelled...