Swift; but he acknowledgestheir works have not reached him.
Personal pique, however, may have done as much as a differing taste to depreciate the Spectator in the eyes of the author of the Tale of a Tub, for he elsewhere acknowledges its merits.
Thus you perceive, my mother, that Egypt practically acknowledges many degrees of rank, although she boasts that "every son of Misr is born equal.
When a king acknowledges that his power is delegated, and that he must be accountable for its use or abuse to his God, he has gained the highest wisdom that earth can give!
He is indeed inseparable from them, as our law acknowledges by forbidding a bankrupt's tools to be sold up.
He acknowledges that these lectures are somewhat discursive with the intention of suggesting diverse points of view and a variety of subjects for further study.
He recognizes nevertheless the importance of Professor Kittredge's contribution to the study of the whole subject and acknowledges his own indebtedness to the essay for suggestion and guidance.
The occupation is now almost gone, driven out by machinery, but it has left its mark on our language, at least on our legal language, which acknowledges as the only designation of an unmarried woman that she is "a spinster.
In all these transmigrations of persons the enigmatical expounder acknowledges that the typical incidents suddenly diverge from their prototype.
He acknowledges to his confidential friend that the whole was only designed to humour the times, and begs that he may not be laughed at.
She acknowledges none of the restraints or influence by which the social world consents to be bound and regulated; her path has ever been wild and erratic as my own.
He candidly acknowledges that no one either counselled or is even aware of the step he has taken.
Even the historian Tacitus acknowledges that the tortures to which its adherents were exposed excited the commiseration of the heathen multitude.
It has often been affirmed that he distinctly acknowledges the authority of these letters; and yet, when honestly interrogated, he will be found to deliver quite a different deposition.
As was said before, French criticism points to Racine as a genius with a certain moral affinity to Virgil; but it equallyacknowledges his inferiority as the interpreter of Nature.
The Greek authors to whom he acknowledges his debt are the early Lyrists and Iambic writers, the poets of the New Comedy, the philosophic writers of the later schools which arose out of the teaching of Socrates, and especially Aristippus.
While Pollio is the patron whose protection and encouragement Virgil most cordially acknowledges in his earlier poems, Gallus is the man among his contemporaries who has most powerfully touched his imagination and gained his affections.
For this, Smith is censured by the historian Stith, who yet acknowledges that Percy was in too feeble health to control a mutinous colony.
Godwyn acknowledges that Berkley had, "as a tender father, nourished and preserved Virginia in her infancy and nonage.
Lightfoot himself acknowledges that, about the close of the first century, we cannot find a trace of the episcopate in either of the two great Christian Churches of Rome and Corinth.
The Acts of Martyrdom of Ignatius--which he alsoacknowledges to be a mere bundle of fables--he treats with the same tender regard.
Lightfoot himself supplies proof that such an inference is inadmissible; for he acknowledges that, according to Eusebius, the pastor of Smyrna finished his career in the reign of M.
Though he had spent twenty years chiefly in their illustration, he acknowledges that he was constantly endeavouring "to add some new light" for his guidance.
The connexion which Christianity acknowledges with the people and soil of Judea has, from the earliest times, given a deep interest to travels in the Holy Land.
The author acknowledges his indebtedness for suggestions and help, as well as for permission to reproduce diagrams, photographs, and passages from plays, to Mr. T.
The author acknowledges his obligation to Miss Grace Griswold, who wrote the article, for permission to make this use of it.
I ask that question," continued I, "because if he acknowledges who was his accomplice, I shall be set at liberty.
I know all that has passed between you, but I know not your real feelings towards Mr Harcourt; he acknowledges that he treated you very ill, and it was his sincere repentance of having so done, and his praise of you, which first won my favour.
Quintino Sella, who has just made known the projected budget for 1873; he acknowledges a deficit of sixty millions, as had been anticipated, while the ordinary receipts amount to eight hundred and five millions.
If a governmentacknowledges a church at all, it must allow that church to work in its own way so long as it does not intrench upon the civic rights of the subject.
The very fact of sending an ambassador at all to a monarch acknowledges the perfect right of that monarch to receive or reject him as he pleases; and to common sense there is an end of the question.
Although the sergeant is twenty-five years younger than the General, he acknowledges that he is usually the first to declare that he has had sufficient for the beginning of the day.
This boyhood friend acknowledges modestly that he and John were not entirely ignorant of the sensations produced by certain hickory or osage switches in the hands of an irate or hasty teacher, but this chapter is not enlarged.
In regard to infant baptism, the human nature of Christ, and some other points, he now acknowledges that he had fallen grievously into error.
The Mirror of a Sinful Soul: a mystical poem, wherein the Queen of Navarre acknowledges no other Mediator than Jesus Christ, and no other righteousness than his expiatory death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acknowledges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
