45 Metaphors for whence

Whence are the senses of these organs but from life, and their forms but from nature?

"'Whence are these weals and scars?'

Whence is thy magic, Oh! thou unseen one, To make still sorrows from their slumbers start, And play again, unsought, their bitter part?

Whence, he says, came the light?

"Great was the damage and the grief and the loss when the King of Aragon remained dead and bleeding with many other barons, whence was great shame to all Christendom and to all people.

Whence was the money to come?

"'Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way That mark out the mountain's track?' They were shed for one who had gone astray, Ere the shepherd could bring him back.

Whence came the principle of love, which is the noblest of all!

That is, What am I, and whence am I?"Jaudon cor.

Whence is that soldier? 1.

'Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labours good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows:

He took the Duke apart, and said in his ear, "Sire, whence is this that your niece tarries so long, and comes not to the dancing?

Whence then is this sudden change?

[Footnote 1: The 'why' and the 'whence' are entirely other questions, not under discussion, as I understand Mr. Bradley.

" "Whence is your authority derived?" inquired Aveline, trembling as she put the question.

Bethink thee, mistress Moon, whence came my love.

"My soul followeth hard after thee," said that holy man; but whence is all this life and vigour?

Whence came the moral element in the idea of Jehovah?

Whence is the race of mortal men, 10 So frail, so mighty, and so fond, That fleets into the vast unknown?

"Whence are these shepherds?" they might have said to themselves, "and what has brought them to this birthplace?"

What beauty there is in the lines entitled "The Charmed Picture": "Sweet face, that o'er my childhood shone, Whence is thy power of change, Thus ever shadowing back my own, The rapid and the strange?

Again, even if it be granted that Kant has explained the properties and relations of things (that they appear in space and time, and that their accidents must be referred to substances), the question still remains unanswered, Whence comes the matter which is taken up into these forms?

And when he had so said he asked them: Whence be ye, young men my brethren?

"She has only one right," the Prince retorted; "because it has pleased the Emperor of Heaven to appoint us twain to lofty stations, to entrust to us the five talents of the parable; whence is our debt to Him, being fivefold, so much the greater than that of common persons.

Whence came this strange notion, which man alone has of all the living things which we see, of RELIGION?

45 Metaphors for  whence