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Example sentences for "many passages"

  • The state of feeling aroused, on both sides, by the repeal of the Oppian law, and the state of society which led to the original enactment of that law, are reflected in many passages of the plays of Plautus.

  • The sense of difficulty and the joy of overcoming it meet us with a keen bracing effect in many passages of the poem.

  • The tone of many passages in the poem clearly indicates that Lucretius, though taking no personal part in the active politics of his age, was profoundly moved by the effects which they produced on human happiness and character.

  • And in this summary it has been my intention not so much to give an analysis of those parts, as to convey to the reader a clue for the better understanding of many passages in the work I have translated.

  • This necessary effort to understand the real meaning of many passages has, therefore, placed the simple truth they contain beyond the average reader of the Bible.

  • Many passages refer to the Lion's roar, and it is remarkable that the Hebrew language contains several words by which the different kind of roar is described.

  • This galling nature of the yoke, so familiar to the Israelites, is used repeatedly as a metaphor in many passages of the Old and New Testaments.

  • That the horn was the favourite vessel for carrying oil is seen in many passages of the Scriptures.

  • Allusion is made to the crushing of the straw in many passages of Scripture.

  • In many passages in the poem one or other of these different types of verse occurs unmixed with others.

  • We cannot therefore always say with certainty whether we have in many passages of Jacob and Esau (Dodsley's Old Plays, ed.

  • Many passages besides, from the Old Testament prophets, show that the Gentiles in their national capacities shall vow and swear to God.

  • In many passages of Scripture do the saints acknowledge themselves as included in the covenant made with Abraham, and, consequently, as brought under its obligations.

  • Many passages in his unequal poem are hardly excelled by the fables of Dryden.

  • Asshur), a Hebrew name, occurring in many passages of the Old Testament, for the land and dominion of Assyria.

  • Many passages in the older English poets are unintelligible without some knowledge of astrology.

  • In conclusion, I must observe that in many passages, especially of the later chapters, a fuller citation of literary apparatus would have been desirable.

  • Jahveh, mentioned in many passages of prophecy and poetry—a result of the monotheistic transformation of mythical ideas.

  • Many passages might be quoted in support of this, but Lebîd Muʿallaḳâ v.

  • It would be a sort of prejudice almost as tasteless as that of Scaliger, to refuse the praise of real poetic superiority to many passages of Virgil, even as compared with the Iliad, and far more with the Odyssey.

  • This poem has spirit and beauty in many passages; but is not much read in the present day, nor does it seem to be approved by modern critics.

  • Burigni perceived this; and it may be proved by many passages in the Epistles of Erasmus.

  • It is an irregular and imperfect play, older in form than any of Shakspeare's; but it has clearly been augmented by many passages written by him, and therefore had a right to be inserted by the first editors, upon their own principles.

  • His Gospel had also been misunderstood, nay, his Epistles had been falsified in many passages,[398] in order to make them teach the identity of the god of creation and the God of redemption.

  • I am disposed to think that this meaning is closely connected with the meaning as we find it in many passages in the Âra.nyakas and the Upani.sads.

  • In many passages of the Upani.sads this Brahman appears as the universal and supreme principle from which all others derived their powers.


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