13 Metaphors for fountains

No less admirably, therefore, than Platonically does Simplicius, in his Commentary of Epictetus, observe on this subject as follows: "The fountain and principle of all things is the good: for that which all things desire, and to which all things are extended, is the principle and the end of all things.

The fountain is nearly double the volume of that of the Jordan at Banias, and much more beautiful.

" The largest and most splendid fountain in the park, is the Bassin de Neptune.

" "There's one thing I notice," said Miss Laura, "and that is that your drinking fountains must be a great deal better than the shallow pans that I have seen some people give their hens water in.

1; and this fountain is his blood, which cleanseth from all sin, Heb.

The fountain's a poor excuse, it will not hold water; come, the name, the name.

The fountain and life of it was that love which radiated from the Cross,an absorbing desire to extend the religion which saves the world.

Melancthon holds the fountain of those spirits to be the heart, begotten there; and afterward conveyed to the brain, they take another nature to them.

What few reformations were effected were very partial, leaving the more enormous immoralities as shameless and defiant as ever, up to the very day of abolition; demonstrating the utter impotence of all attempts to purify the streams while the fountain is poison.

Mr. Wild tells us "that the fountain of Siloam is a mineral spring of a brackish taste, and somewhat of the smell of the Harrowgate water, but in a very slight degree."

Its shores were covered with beautiful trees and plants; splendid gardens of flowers were found everywhere; fruits grew in abundance; fountains sparkled in the sunlight; and the people were the happiest in the world.

The Fountains of Oblivion and MemoryChaeroneaThebesAthens Vostizza was then a considerable town, containing between three and four thousand inhabitants, chiefly Greeks.

But the Fountain of Youth is not a desirable water-supply, and a young person who should find such a pool would do well to wait until he had arrived at maturity before entering upon an existence of indefinite continuance.

13 Metaphors for  fountains