18274 examples of burns in sentences

But they are impotent as the darts of Priam; Luther laughs at them, and burns the Papal bull before a huge concourse of excited students and shopkeepers and enthusiastic women.

All the material of the building was of pine, and that well seasoned; a wood that burns like tinder.

Birthplace of Burns.

Burns and Highland Mary.

Ayr and the surrounding country throw a flood of light on the work of Burns.

From there it is not far to the Carlyle Country (Ecclefechan, Craigenputtock), to the Burns Country (Dumfries, Ayr), and to the Scott Country (Loch Katrine, The Trossachs, Edinburgh, and Abbotsford).

" Milton writes: "...the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.

He has little sense of humor and less sympathy with human life than either Shakespeare or Burns.

Unlike Shakespeare and Burns, Milton had the misfortune to spend his childhood in a large city.

Webster's speeches are likely to live for their style alone, outside their truths, like those of Cicero and Demosthenes, like the histories of Voltaire and Macaulay, like the essays of Pascal and Rousseau; and they will live, not only for both style and matter, but for the exalted patriotism which burns in them from first to last, for those sentiments which consecrate cherished institutions.

The sacred flame burns unquenched in the hearts of the people, and will again burst forth, a glorious light to enlighten the nationbut a consuming fire to their oppressors.

Darkened as has been the horizon of suffering Hungary, in you, sir, still burns that living fire of freedom, which we trust will yet light up her firmament, and shed its lustrous flame over her wasted lands.

Where life-draining oppression weighs so heavily, that the landowner offers the use of all his lands to the government, merely to get free from the taxationwhere the vintager cuts down his vineyards and the gardener his orchard, and the farmer burns his tobacco seed to be rid of the duties, and their vexationsthere of course must dearth prevail, and famine raise its hideous head.

Society is in this respect like a firethe wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.

" "There be wood beside you," the younger man continued, "and the fire burns bright.

"For the sun enters into their blood and burns them with a great fire till they are filled with lusts and passions.

Robert Burns Brave Life.................................

Grantland Rice Gifts of God, The.......................... George Herbert Gift, The.................................. Robert Burns Gladness................................... Anna Hempstead Branch Glad Song, The............................. Joseph Morris God

That, A................. Robert Burns Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife, The....... Joseph Rodman Drake Meetin' Trouble............................

The great lesson the Eastern physics burns into the pupil is that we are living not only within the prakritic earth, but within each of the other globes as well in identically the same way and subject to the same laws.

Who does not remember how the "Marseillaise" was born, or how Burns's "Scots wha ha' wi' Wallace bled," or the story of Moore's taking the old "Red Fox March," and giving it a new immortality as "Let Erin remember the days of old," while poor Emmett sprang up and cried, "Oh, that I had twenty thousand Irishmen marching to that tune!"

Not so with Burns.

SEE Bernheim, Bertram M. BURNS, EDWARD MCNALL.

Edward McNall Burns (A); 4Aug66; R391485.

BURNS, EMILE.

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