Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Peabody spoke of the need today of aggressiveness in our religious life. Many men adopt a negative view of religion, avoiding evil and slipping through their daily existence in a neutral way. This is better than positive sin, no doubt, but it is a poor way of living. The need of good men in the world is greater now than ever before, and surely they ought to be found in such an institution as this where men come to develop and broaden their ideas and their field of usefulness...
...resemblance, we see that duty, however simple, is a religious act; for a failure to perform it involves the suffering of innocent persons. Again, duty is universal; that is, in following it we conform to a universal law, and any omission of it must be regarded as a sin. Here the similarity to religion and its laws is too clear to demand explanation. Finally, duty is always authoritative. It is the call of the whole world upon the individual, and for this reason it can never be avoided without some resulting misfortune. This call of duty issues from...
...sufficient to darken these plates appreciably, but not so much but that stars of the eighth magnitude will appear. The existence of a small intermercurial planet is possible and it will probably appear on the plates if it exists. If other astronomers can be induced to make similar observation sin Spain or Algiers, it will be possible to compute the approximate orbit and the distance of the body from...
...works were read: Jeremy Taylor's, Sir Thomas Brown's and Lord Bacon's essays concerning friendship; Heywood's, "The Woman Killed with Kindness"; "A Ballad Upon a Wedding," by Sir John Suckling; "To Lucasta on Going to the War," and "Lovelace to Althea from Prison," by Colonel Lovelace; "Sin," by George Herbert; "No Armor Against Fate," by James Shirley; "Shall I, Wasting in Despair," by George Wither...
...June the heat became so intense that the work was transferred to the eastern part of the temple area, where the excavations which had been suspended in '96, were renewed. The level of Ur Gur was first reached and later a large piece of the Naram Sin pavement was exposed. The statues found were all broken, which goes to confirm the idea that probably in the third century B. C. the temple was sacked. Besides the statues many valuable inscriptions were found on pieces of marble and brick...