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Example sentences for "truly said"

  • In the case of the other animals, there seems to be little reason to doubt, that the tedious process, by which man may be truly said to learn to see, is not necessary for their visual perceptions.

  • Much may be truly said by the moralist on the comparative harm of open and concealed vice.

  • Wine may be allowed to have a religious as well as a festive use; it is commended both in the Old and New Testament; it has been sung of by nearly all poets; and it may be truly said to have a healing influence both on body and mind.

  • Of him it might be truly said, as of his favourite poet, that he "saw life steadily and saw it whole.

  • It may be truly said, that she did her duties as “to the Lord.

  • Of her it might be truly said, she had “fallen asleep in Christ.

  • Of his literary labours he probably took little thought during these years; although the visit which in the course of them he paid to Italy may be truly said to have constituted the turning-point in his literary life.

  • Coleridge, they may be truly said to resemble a collection of mirrors set in the same frame, each having its own focus of knowledge, yet all capable of converging to one point.

  • In what respects Franklin can be truly said to have been servile to French influence, it is impossible to see.

  • Moreover, he truly said of the letters, when he assumed this responsibility in his communication to the Public Advertiser, "They were not of the nature of private letters between friends.

  • It may be truly said of every province of scientific research into which Franklin ventured that he brought to it a bold and original spirit of speculation which gave it new interest and meaning.

  • It may be truly said, however, as has already been hinted, that Franklin was never more friendly to the principle of international free trade than in the latter years of his life.

  • At this time and in this part of the country, it might be truly said, That the harvest was GREAT, but the labourers were FEW.

  • But what enhanced him more was courage and magnanimity of mind, which accompanied him upon every emergent occasion; and though his extraction was but mean, it might be truly said of him, That he lived a hero and died a martyr.

  • He was of such constancy of life and manners, that it might be truly said of him, which was said of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, In omni vita sui similis, nec ulla unquam in re mutatus fuit.

  • These then may be truly said to be the ends of these organs?

  • Never, it can be truly said, did the Press greet a new venture with greater warmth and enthusiasm.

  • Taking any single season as a characteristic one, it may be truly said that it offers a fair and varied representation of the tastes and predilections of its wealthy and cosmopolitan patrons.

  • It may be truly said that, seeing how short his life was, his achievements were amazing, both in extent and significance.

  • And if this is true, pleasure cannot be truly said to share either in the first or second place, and does not, if I may trust my own mind, attain even to the third.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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