He will look with his own eyes and learn for himself what their lives are like, how they conceive of the human lot, and what, if any, are the mysteries which sadden and perplex them.
If I look at these things, I may see what will perplexand confound me.
And as to the doctrines of predestination and election, He has unfolded them in His Word to comfort His saints, not to perplexpoor sinners.
Not at all," said the prince; "do not perplex yourself, and all will go well.
I hope nothing will happen to perplex the title or to delay the payment, and that the sum will be safely lodged for my account and in Gosling's hands before the end of February.
The doubtful title of a mortgage might distress and perplex me for the remainder of my life, and you would not easily forgive yourself for having been the innocent author of my calamities.
It seemed as though everyone was conspiring to perplex and torment him; and he, like the poor vicar, though for very different reasons, had grown intensely anxious to sell.
There was something, too, in the tone and look of Captain Lake which went a good way to confound and perplex his suspicions, and he half fancied that the masterstroke he had hazarded was a rank and irreparable blunder.
But we must leave no stone unturned to harass and perplex him.
The vessels and boats for the transport of the men were quickly made ready, whilst others were told off to hover about the basin in order to perplex the French, and keep them ignorant of the real point of attack.
I see already that these loose and ill-joined members of an enunciation do vex, trouble, and perplex you.
It is at this point that many puzzle and perplex themselves needlessly.
Those who hold that we are sanctified wholly in conversion will meet with much to perplex them in their converts, and are not intelligently equipped to bless and help God's little children.
Evidently these are questions that perplex many people, and yet the answer seems to me simple.
It is such cases as these that sometimes perplex us in our consideration, when the point in which justice is violated does not seem so very significant, but the consequences of such slight transgression seem exceedingly important.
It is without date or superscription in the manuscript, which (as our contributor declares) was in so "fragmentitious" a state as to perplex his transcribing faculties in the extreme.
On beauty I do not mean to perplex you or myself with abstract ideas, and the romantic reveries of platonic philosophy, or to inquire whether it be the result of a simple or complex principle.
Constance, strange misgivings as to my choice in my past life haunt and perplex me.
But like all the others that have been made, only serving toperplex them.
There was no multitude of resources to perplex me--there was absolutely no one to depend on, in the first instance, but myself.
He had little trouble with the door-fastenings, that often perplex us in a like case, blocking egress with mysterious mechanisms.
To my waking reason, the words sound like nonsense, and perplex me; but the thing did not perplex me at all.
No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
The passions, the tortures, the despairs of imagination are greater far than the seeming REAL, petty afflictions with which human beings dailyperplex themselves; indeed, I have often wondered.
To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
In consequence of these original errors, a thousand precepts have been given, which have only contributed toperplex and confound.
The Stoics did not perplex themselves with the insoluble question of the origin and nature of matter.
And on all occasions call on the gods, and do not perplex thyself about the length of time in which thou shalt do this; for even three hours so spent are sufficient.
She may 'perplex the poor sons of a day;' but she shall never perplex me--by God and Saint Ringan!
Trench remarks further on this point, that the use of the term "world" need not perplex us in the least; and perhaps he was led to make that assertion because the use of the term did perplex him much.
