25 Metaphors for generations

" "The present generation are fair folks but wild.

And the germ of each organized being bequeathes to its offspring the power to reproduce its likeness,so that each succeeding generation is a repetition of its predecessor.

All generation is necessarily [Greek: ánarchón ti], without dividuous beginning, and herein contradistinguished from creation.

" "What difference, if the next generation be beautiful?"

In such a typical moss as Funaria, we have the following cycle of developments: The sexual generation is a dioecious leafy structure, having a central elongated axis, with leaves arranged regularly around and along it.

If you want the German vote, don't you think it would be your politikle bier to get at lager-heads with the Prushians? Did you ever think before, that yourself and family, way back 15 or 20 generations in the grave, were such a lot of low-lived villyians as the opposition papers say you be?

but it is so essentially the same that the generation of the Son of God is the transcendent, which gives to human generation its right to be so called.

They serve us as symbols of the disturbing reals, but they are not images of things, nor effects of these, but products of the soul itself: the generation of sensations is the soul's peculiar way of guarding itself against threatened disturbances.

The most casual of observers will tell you that the generation of the Great War is a neurasthenic generation.

Five generations were there presentthe Rougons and the Macquarts, Adelaide Fouque at the root, then the scoundrelly old uncle, then himself, then Clotilde and Maxime, and lastly, Charles.

But the most whimsical anecdote connected with the subject of drink, is one traditionary in the south of Scotland, regarding an old Gallovidian lady disclaiming more drink under the following circumstances:The old generation of Galloway lairds were a primitive and hospitable race, but their conviviality sometimes led to awkward occurrences.

"To my idea, this younger generation is too wildnot near as settled as when I was comin' up.

Should the teachings of the evolutionists of to-day be finally accepted, and after a few generations become the universally received explanations of life and the universe, it is not likely any poet or novelist will more genuinely and entirely express their spirit than George Eliot has done.

I would set You higher in our diadem, And higher yet and higher yet, That generations still to be May kindle at your history!

Some generations back there must have been an idea that the P. & O. was vastly superior to all lines afloata sort of semipontifical show not to be criticised.

the sublunary generations to the periods of the celestial bodies; and the circle of the former is the image of the latter.

He statedand I do not think any of the statements he made are capable of answer and certainly have not yet been answeredthe grounds upon which with the utmost reluctance and with infinite regret His Majesty's Government have been compelled to put this country in a state of war with what, for many years and indeed generations past, has been a friendly Power.

"I think the younger generation is livin' too fast.

He said that the present race of colored people could not be received into the society of the whites, because of illegitimacy; but the next generation would be fit associates for the whites, because they would be chiefly born in wedlock.

The Generation of the Infant is the Effect of Desire, but the Care of it argues Virtue and Choice.

The eternal self-generation of God is a twofold birth: in the immanent or logical process the unsearchable will (Father) gives birth to the comprehensible will (Son) to unite with it as Spirit; the place of this self-revelation is wisdom or the Idea.

Thus the reign of Augustus is the classic or golden age of Rome; the generation of Dante is the classic age of Italian literature; the age of Louis XIV is the French classic age; and the age of Queen Anne is often called the classic age of England.

The generation is a simple process.

The younger generation are, like myself I suppose, Sangoans by birth.

"The generation of new ideas is chiefly a matter of association.

25 Metaphors for  generations