52 Metaphors for origin

The reason why zeal is like the ardent fire of love is, because zeal is of love, which is spiritual heat, and this in its origin is like fire.

He said, so far as I could comprehend in the anguish and torture in which I was held, that the origin of thought was the question he was investigating, but that in every previous subject the confusion of ideas had bewildered them, and the rapidity with which one followed another.

The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence.

The electric origin of the Aurora Borealis (whether absolutely certain or not) was an example; another was the efficacy of 'suggestion,' especially for curative purposes.

Newark-upon-Trent is believed by some antiquaries to have been built in Roman times; others state its origin to have been Saxon, but the first absolutely certain record of it is in the time of Edward the Confessor.

This, he thought, could not be true, because the "Origin of Species" is one long argument from the beginning to the end, and has convinced many able men.

"It will keep the lad going a few months anyhow," he said to himself, as he tramped downstairs, glad that he'd been able to think of something; for, while the scheme was admirable as an advertisement, and would more than repay Messrs. Owens' outlay, its origin had been pure philanthropy.

Darwin's Origin of Species (1859), which apparently established the theory of evolution, was an epoch-making book.

The first persons of that illustrious profession appear, from the sound of the name, to have been French, unless we take the derivation of a cockney friend of ours, who maintains that the origin of the word is not the French pavé, but the indigenous English pathway.

Dr. H. C. Trumbull, in his work on "The Blood Covenant," thinks that the origin of animal sacrifices was like that of circumcision,a pouring out of blood (the universal, ancient symbol of life) as a sign of devotion to the deity; and the substitution of animals was a natural and necessary mode of making this act of consecration a frequent and continuing one.

The origin is an imitation of the noise made by clearing the throat.

It is no rose that we adoreonly at the best a bedeguar, of which the origin is a disagreeable little insect.

But as we are now among polytheists it may be argued that, given a crowd of gods on the animistic model, an origin had to be found for them, and that origin was Taa-roa.

1. The origin of things is, for many reasons, a peculiarly interesting point in their history.

The first expressions of the Germanic mind, the song of "Hildebrand," "Gudrun," the "Nibelungen," have been handed down to us in a form which shows their origin to have been Netherlandish.

The origin of 'cirques' or 'cwms,' of which we have remarkably fine examples, is still a little mysteriousone notes also the requirement of observation which might throw light on the erosion of previous ages.

Grant, that the origin of the Swedenborgian theology is a problem; yet on which ever of the three possible hypotheses(possible

The origin and history of plant names is a subject of some magnitude, and is one that has long engaged the attention of philologists.

Locke was therefore right in believing that 'the origin of our ideas' is the main stress of the problem of mental science, and the subject which must be first considered in forming the theory of the Mind.

For let any man of sincere mind and without any system to support look round on all his Christian neighbours, and will he say or will they say that the origin of their well-doing was an attempt to imitate what they all believe to be inimitable, Christ's perfection in virtue, his absolute sinlessness?

Strong in its own right and dignity, it did not conceive that the inexplicable act of the President ought to cause it to renounce absolutely a determination the origin of which had been its respect for engagements (loyauté) and its good feelings toward a friendly nation.

The origin of this habit was an old joke, and I have forgotten the point of it.

The scheme, although no Christian scheme could be wholly dislinked from religion, was yet most prominently a social scheme; its origin was The Salvation Army, but it was intended to promote the work of the common Church.

That this origin is the marriage of good and truth, shall be demonstrated in what now follows.

Genesis is no authority in science, and The Origin of Species is no authority in philosophy, poetry, theology or religion.

52 Metaphors for  origin