...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it.
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[The literary figure who looms largest in] False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form.
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
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He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
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Romans 8:18:
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
(NIV)
[But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!
(AMP)
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
(KJV)
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1 John 5:13:
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
(NIV)
I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the Son of God [in the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, yes, eternal life.
(AMP)
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
(KJV)
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Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Job 1:10:
'Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.'
(NIV)
Have You not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have conferred prosperity and happiness upon him in the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
(AMP)
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
(KJV)
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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