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Example sentences for "arcana"

Lexicographically close words:
arca; arcade; arcaded; arcades; arcading; arcane; arcanum; arce; arced; arces
  1. Have ye read the 'Arcana of Nature and Science,' ma'am?

  2. On the archæology of the ring see further SAXSE, Arcana annuli pronubii, 68 ff.

  3. His mind, pagan in its bent, is splendidly broad in its comprehension of the arcana of Nature and that of a poet sensitive to all the witchery of a world which at core is inscrutably dark and mysterious.

  4. Why should the enlightened Christian, who has a correct idea of the firm foundation on which the Bible rests, fear that any disclosures of the arcana of nature should shake its authority or weaken its influence?

  5. Nay, that science carries us as far back into the arcana of time as astronomy does into the arcana of space.

  6. Let us now recur to some of these discoveries, that have opened the widest vistas into the arcana of nature.

  7. Rosse's arcana microcosmi with a refutation of Bacon, Harvey, Broun, etc.

  8. Browning's eager penetration of the arcana of life was too absorbing to permit him to call a halt when the actor on the stage could go no farther.

  9. The chiefest thing in all physic, [3378]Paracelsus calls it, omnia arcana gemmarum superans et metallorum.

  10. Our writers of romances and novels are initiated into all the arcana of names, which cost them many painful inventions.

  11. The Arcana of the fire-eaters: The formula of Albertus Magnus.

  12. His experiments will receive further attention in the chapter "The Arcana of the Fire-Eaters.

  13. These secrets will be fully explained in the section of this history devoted to the Arcana of the Fire-Eaters (Chapter Six).

  14. The whole of those who had come to me hitherto with a pretended insight into the arcana of metals were men--mostly half-pay officers--whose wits were half gone with their money.

  15. Even the wisest of men have hoped for a full knowledge of the arcana of metals.

  16. The testimony of the lines-- Ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim, etc.

  17. He who is unacquainted with the arcana of heaven cannot believe that man can see earths so remote, and give any account of them from sensible experience.

  18. Men in old times, influenced by erroneous teachings, wasted their time and energies in idle questionings of the stars, vain efforts to find Arcana of mysterious power, and to acquire magical authority over the elements.

  19. At the same time the Jews, who were acquainted with the arcana of the Irano-Chaldean doctrines and proceedings, made some of the recipes known wherever the dispersion brought {190} them.

  20. Vettius Valens, a contemporary of Marcus Aurelius, implored them in solemn terms, not to divulge to the ignorant and impious the arcana he was about to acquaint them with.

  21. Mehevi sought to enlighten my ignorance, but he failed as signally as when he had endeavoured to initiate me into the perplexing arcana of the taboo.

  22. Now my memories must lie entombed in the arcana of memory.

  23. It goes thundering down the aisles of time only to be lost in the arcana of treacherous memory.

  24. But blessed is the portion of the just who conceal secrets, and much more the Supernal Arcana of God the Most Holy One—blessed be He!

  25. From this ear depend the highest Arcana, which go not forth without, and therefore is (this ear) curved in the interior parts, and the Arcana of Arcana are concealed therein.

  26. And because the Arcana come into contact with this ear, and follow the curvings of that region, hence the Arcana are not revealed unto those who walk in crooked paths, but unto those (who walk in) those which are not crooked.

  27. Whosoever revealeth Arcana with fixed purpose of mind, he is not of the body of the Most Holy King.

  28. But in our doctrine regarding our Arcana have we taught that the books which are contained in the Law refer back unto these twenty-four.


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