vicar: [13] A vicar is etymologically a ‘substitute’ for or ‘representative’ of someone else: thus the pope is the vicar of God on Earth, and the vicar of a parish was originally someone who stood in for the parson or rector. The word comes via Old French vicaire from Latin vicār...
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Earlier ethical readings that have sought to trace a conversion or transformation of the character as part of a survival narrative “from the theme of prudence to that of fortitude” (Adelstein 316)have not taken seriously the...
Less Meaning of Profane View,More Strong Feelings with God——Analysis of the value of life and the religious view in Lev Tolstoy s upper novel Father Sergius; 世俗之见具有的意义越小,就能越强烈地感觉到上帝——试析托尔斯泰后期小说《谢尔盖神甫》中的生命观和宗教思想4...
can wish for nothing in this world but good lodging, good food, clean garments, shoes with silver buckles, a sufficiency of things for the needs of the animal, and a canonry to satisfy self- love, that inexpressible sentiment which follows us, they say, into the presence of God,–for ...
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” Yes, another wonderful Chesterton quote. The meaning is that some things are so important, that we cannot put off doing them simply because we're not the best person, or we don't have enough time o