Yet there are times when one cannot deal in certainties.

He's a father of certainties.

For me the ebb and flow of trade, with its certainties and its discretions.

The sight of the military bearing of my companions changed all her fear into certainties.

In forming their stock of Certainties and Probabilities men employ the faculty of reason, faith in divine revelation, and enthusiasm (chh.

" As he spoke the eyes of his young auditor seemed to say: "Tell me more, more yet, more even than hopes, give me certainties, tell of the victory which will come soon.

[KAPITAL/TIJUANA BIBLE] Most new ideas start with a precious few certainties and a lot of speculation.

I've been doing a bunch of digging for certainties and a lot of speculating lately, and the purpose of this talk is to lay out both categories of ideas.

This leads me into the two certainties I have about ebooks: 1.

Fewer people are reading fewer words off fewer pages every day [GRAPHIC] These two certainties begged a lot of questions.

If I lose her for half a day, all the old feelings, resembling certainties, come back, that I have only been dreamingthat this appearance cannot be an actual objective fact of life, since the impossible is impossible.

He has all the following certainties, at least:that he himself is ready for the change; that he believes it would be a good and beneficent one; that unless some one begins the work of preparation, assuredly there will be no consummation; and that if he declines to take a part in the matter, there can be no reason why every one else in turn should not decline in like manner, and so the work remain for ever unperformed.

It only remains to add that in these pages critical questions are for the most part ignored, not because the pressure of the problems which they create is unfelt, but because as yet they have no place among the certainties which are the sole business of the preacher when he passes from his study to his pulpit.

II Among the scant certainties vouchsafed us is that every age lives by its special catchwords.

Central certainties: the Jarrell Lectures for 1942 at Emory University.

It is not the spirit of Luther or of John Wesley; it lives more among hopes than certainties; it desires to see God rather than to proclaim His wrath.

We are informed that several certainties were upset, but by whom and why has not been stated.

Another living poet of original genius, of whom we have much right to complain that he gives us so little, ends a poem in two or three lines which are worth quoting here for the illustration they afford of what has just been said about Mr. Browning: "Ah, what dusty answer gets the soul, When hot for certainties in this our life!

Nay certainties.

If your unconstant Daughter will not dwell on certainties, must you thenceforth conclude that I am fickle?

Nay certainties.

Then I am sure you mean to jilt me: You decline Failer, because he has wit; and you think me such an ass, that you may pack me off so soon as you are married; no, no, I'll not venture certainties for uncertainties.

You can't attain to proved certainties in this lifeat least, you can't at present.

" "But you must take your stand on some certainties," said Rose.

All these disastrous certainties he faced calmly, and gave his whole mind composedly to the conducting of his defence.