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Example sentences for "colloquies"

Lexicographically close words:
colloquia; colloquial; colloquialism; colloquialisms; colloquially; colloquium; colloquy; collusion; collusive; collyria
  1. Berault added a selection of Cordier's Colloquies in French and English to his work, as well as the usual proverbs, idioms and polite letters, and a vocabulary.

  2. New Dialogues or Colloquies and a little Dictionary of eight Languages.

  3. It is followed by dialogues[782] in French and English, in the usual style, bearing much resemblance to the Latin colloquies and the dialogues of De la Mothe's French Alphabet.

  4. It was printed for Michael Sparke, who issued another edition in eight languages in 1639 as New Dialogues or colloquies or a little Dictionary of eight languages.

  5. But then, of course, she could know nothing of those colloquies Mr. V.

  6. And the colloquies preceding it had been of a thoroughly typical sort, compressing in a nutshell a whole history, in fact the whole history, of the domestico-commerical relationships of rising Houses.

  7. Indeed these colloquies with monks and canons in their own monastery were nothing unusual.

  8. My own advice was, as it had always been, steady against Poetry; and we had colloquies upon it, which must have tried his patience, for in him there was a strong leaning the other way.

  9. Listen to his colloquies with Jesus and Mary; hear him speaking of the blessed Virgin with such enrapturing sweetness, that he seems to exhaust all the epithets that the liveliest hope and the most pure and tender love can suggest.

  10. He wished to bring about the day when they would flow in freely; the reader perhaps sees the gesture with which, in his colloquies with himself, he accompanied this mental image.

  11. Zeller, that by exoteric discourses are not meant any writings at all, but simply the colloquies and debates of cultivated men, apart from the philosophical schools.

  12. The controversy respecting Universals first obtained its place in philosophy from the colloquies of Sokrates, and the writings and teachings of Plato.

  13. The burden of his brother's children had dropped away from him, and in those strange inner colloquies of his he could look Sandy in the face again.

  14. A series of quick and somewhat noisy colloquies followed, watched with disapproval by the gardien near, who seemed to be once or twice on the point of interfering.

  15. The mere pressure upon us of the three successive crowds would, alone, have been a strain hard to bear; but every individual had his or her colloquies to be held with their respective Spirit friends.

  16. This is quite enough to show us how important is the injunction delivered in the Platonic Parmenides--to carry on these testing colloquies apart from indiscriminate auditors, in the presence, at most, of a few select companions.

  17. If we compare various colloquies of Sokrates in the Xenophontic Memorabilia, we shall find Alkibiades I.

  18. Kisses, colloquies and invitations rained upon him, but he chose to lodge in the house of his relative Reimund.

  19. Line 8, "And chews Corderius with his morning crust": the Colloquies of Corderius were used in every school of any consequence in the time of Shakespeare's boyhood.

  20. Whoever, reading these colloquies of his with the Queen, thinks they are vulgar insolences of a plebeian priest to a delicate high lady, mistakes the purport and essence of them altogether.

  21. He represents me as inferior to each of the others alike in learning and in piety; intimating that there is in the Colloquies a sprinkling of certain matters which savour of Luther's dogmas.

  22. Act then in such a way, that these Colloquies may be truly called yours.

  23. The Colloquies of Erasmus form a rich quarry of intellectual material, from which each student will extract that which he regards to be of peculiar value.

  24. Thus rendered communicative, their colloquies would travel back into the past, and as the veterans of intrigue fought their battles over again, the most experienced would learn things that made them open their eyes with amazement.

  25. By the same Author, +The Angler in the Lake District;+ or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions in Westmoreland and Cumberland.

  26. The Angler and his Friend;+ or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions.

  27. Xenophon tells us, and it is very probable, that inaccurate oral reports of the real colloquies of Sokrates may have got into circulation.

  28. There were moreover several who copied the general style of his colloquies by composing written dialogues.

  29. These last cited colloquies also, between Sokrates and Aristippus, are among the most memorable remains of Grecian philosophy: belonging to one of the years preceding 399 B.

  30. Xenophon notices briefly two other colloquies between Sokrates and Aristippus.

  31. Footnote 65: See the two interesting colloquies of Sokrates, with Glaukon and Charmides (Xenoph.

  32. He mentions a collection of thirty-three dialogues in one volume, purporting to be reports of real colloquies of Sokrates, published by Simon.

  33. Mournful colloquies and yet pleasing, where man is the suicidal vulture perpetually preying upon himself, and caressing the wound that drags him to the grave.

  34. In such solitude life becomes a dialogue of man with his own soul, and the internal colloquies render more bitter and intense the affections which have returned to the heart for want of nourishment in the world.

  35. Southey, Robert, his Colloquies on Society reviewed, i.

  36. Elliott, the entertainment of these later colloquies resides primarily in the technique of the "satirist satirized.

  37. The most often named--particularly in the colloquies between Buddha and his disciples--is Indra with the adjunctive appellation of Kaushika.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colloquies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.