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Example sentences for "human passions"

  • It is quite in vain for us to seek in Arabian historians any of those thoughts that instruct us in the knowledge of human passions or political revolutions.

  • We could speak still more of the absurdities of knight-errantry; but our task is here to write the history of institutions, and not that of human passions.

  • But uninfluenced by circumstances, however unfavorable, they wrote in a region far above the atmosphere of human passions.

  • They maintain that without this it would be impossible to avoid the most lamentable errors, and to protect truth from the effects of human passions.

  • He gave himself to the art which thus addressed at once the two strongest of human passions, that of pleasure and that of knowledge.

  • He had been accustomed to believe that the gods had lived upon earth, and taken upon themselves the forms of men; had shared in human passions, in human labours, and in human misfortunes.

  • In the marriage of his father and mother, delight in the senses, absorption in the turbulence of human passions, is likely to meet complete otherworldliness and unusual spiritual sensitiveness.

  • He is more fiercely tempted, because he is more sensitive to human passions; he is shut away from all temptations because his interest is solely in the principle of beauty.

  • Writers in the romantic period, we say, praised the poet whose thought was turned inward by solitude; while writers in the Victorian period praised the poet whose thought was turned upon the spectacle of human passions.

  • The Church is holy, holy in her moral laws, holy in her service of the truth; she never shirks truth, not even where truth is painful; the Church never surrenders the truth to human passions.

  • It is a well known fact that all men after the example of the inspired writings, make frequent use of the figure called anthropomorphism, attributing to the Deity a human body, human members, human passions, etc.

  • An hand invisible and of preternatural strength, lifted by human passions, and selecting my life for its aim, were parts of this terrific image.

  • Thus had I successfully subdued the stubbornness of human passions: the victim which had been demanded was given: the deed was done past recal.

  • I had never witnessed the hurricane of human passions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    excellent opportunity; human action; human behavior; human bodies; human consciousness; human embryo; human face; human feeling; human figures; human hearts; human institutions; human intercourse; human invention; human life; human milk; human nature; human power; human skull; human society; human virtue; human wisdom; human work; operative credit; spiritual religion; yesterday evening; yet not