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divine 8864 occurrences

" With plants of the kind we may compare the wonder-working moonwort (Botrychium lunaria), which was said to open locks and to unshoe horses that trod on it, a notion which Du Bartas thus mentions in his "Divine Weekes" "Horses that, feeding on the grassy hills, Tread upon moonwort with their hollow heels, Though lately shod, at night go barefoot home, Their maister musing where their shoes become.

The Tamarindus Indica is in Ceylon dedicated to Siva, the god of destruction; and in Thibet, the jambu or rose-apple is believed to be the representative of the divine amarita-tree which bears ambrosia.

The flower is generally the large white lily of our gardens, "the pure white petals signifying her spotless body, and the golden anthers within typifying her soul sparkling with divine light."

And even when it dies, to pass In odors so divine, As lowly spices gone to sleep, Or amulets of pine.

The belle had now the two strangers to herself, and having heard that the Effinghams had an Englishman of condition as a companion, who was travelling under a false name, she fancied herself very clever in detecting him at once in the person of Aristabulus; while by the aid of a lively imagination, she thought Mr. Truck was his travelling Mentor, and a divine of the church of England.

She could not divine Lenore's motive, but she sensed a new and fascinating mode of conduct for herself.

Slowly something divine is revealing itself to me.

To give up work, property, friends, sister, mother, home, sweetheart, to sacrifice all and go out to fight for country, for honorthat indeed is divine.

It is sacrifice that is divine, and not the making of an efficient soldier.

It was a divine inspiration, and verified by the event.

A voice, not earthly, thus addressed The Símúrgh in his mountain nest "To thee this mortal I resign, Protected by the power divine; Let him thy fostering kindness share, Nourish him with paternal care; For from his loins, in time, will spring The champion of the world, and bring Honour on earth, and to thy name; The heir of everlasting fame.

[802] Divine Dialogues, by Henry More, D.D. See ante, ii. 162, note I.

[1018] William Baxter, the editor of Anacreon, was the nephew of Richard Baxter, the nonconformist divine.

Dun, though a man of sincere good principles as a presbyterian divine, discovered,' &c. First edition, p. 478.

"If we were asked," says Max Müller, "how it was that Abraham possessed not only the primitive conception of the Divinity, as he has revealed himself to all mankind, but passed, through the denial of all other gods, to the knowledge of the One God, we are content to answer that it was by a special divine revelation."

It is natural to worship strength, human or divine.

If he had had patience then, that divine pity of hers might have come to help them both; but he read into her silence the abhorrence which a little earlier had possessed her soul; and the maddening pain of it drove him beyond all bounds.

All labor, whether of head or hand, is divine; and labor alone justifies a man as a son of earth and heaven.

If we add to the above message Carlyle's conceptions of the world as governed by a God of justice who never forgets, and of human history as "an inarticulate Bible," slowly revealing the divine purpose, we shall understand better the force of his ethical appeal and the profound influence he exercised on the moral and intellectual life of the past century.

Three things stand out clearly in Newman's life: first, his unshaken faith in the divine companionship and guidance; second, his desire to find and to teach the truth of revealed religion; third, his quest of an authoritative standard of faith, which should remain steadfast through the changing centuries and amid all sorts and conditions of men.

Footnote 176: From Divine Poems, "Old Age and Death.

Here evidently is a democratic doctrine, which abolishes the divine right of kings; but Hobbes immediately destroys democracy by another doctrine,that the power given by the people to the ruler could not be taken away.

His backwardness in the university hath set him thus forward; for had he not truanted there, he had not been so hasty a divine.

A GRAVE DIVINE Is one that knows the burthen of his calling, and hath studied to make his shoulders sufficient; for which he hath not been hasty to launch forth of his port, the university, but expected the ballast of learning, and the wind of opportunity.

Divine legislation revised and improved!

destiny 2581 occurrences

The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law, with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity.

We will not endeavour to modify the motions of the elements, or to fix the destiny of kingdoms.

"And, Senator, I would like to ask why so many high-priced constitutional lawyers who enter Congress spend so much time in placing the Constitution of the United States between themselves and their duty, sir, between the people and their Government, sir, between the nation and its destiny?

From this lack of confidence and little faith in yourself and destiny, you must by all means escape at any cost.

He could not, of course, realize at the time that Fate, in dealing him this cruel blow, was dedicating him to a higher destiny.

That being accomplished, nothing can be fairer than to leave the people of a Territory free from all foreign interference to decide their own destiny for themselves, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.

It is beyond question the destiny of our race to spread themselves over the continent of North America, and this at no distant day should events be permitted to take their natural course.

When once a project of this kind, however, is superseded in the way this has been, it is like raising the dead to bring it up again; and it is therefore probable that my destiny is now fixed in the North-West instead of the South-West, for a number of years.

Why, indeed, was the black man created, if not to fulfil his destiny as a negro, to the glory of God? Suffer me then to exhort you, my countrymen, to cease looking to the white man for example and imitation.

An unfulfilled destiny, at all events, which was growing clamorous as the echo of the boy's passion-if it were but an echo-pulsed in her throat, drew her body down by insensible relaxations closer upon his.

For high in the firmament of human destiny are set the stars of faith in mankind, and unselfish courage, and loyalty to the ideal; and while they shine, the Americanism of Washington and the men who stood with him shall never, never die.

But if the destiny of Spain, Be once again to rise, Oh! grant me heaven, to read the tale, In Manuel's joyful eyes! IX.

But today, when she regained her room in the hotel, she walked up and down with the feeling that she was struggling against manifest destiny.

Maitland roared for my help: and at that moment, I, poor wretch, in far worse plight than he, stood shivering in ague: for suddenly one of those wrangles of the voices of my destiny was filling my bosom with loud commotion, one urging me to fly to Maitland's aid, one passionately commanding me be still.

But singular destiny!

But it can't be helped; it's the destiny of women, and I only hope this Warner is worthy of her.

In a word, that they are capable of carrying into execution that noble plan of self-government which they have chosen as the guaranty of their own happiness and the asylum for that of all, from every clime, who may wish to unite their destiny with ours.

How will "Manifest Destiny" unfold itself, and what will the end be?The cup must fill first. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote BY: Many of my suggestions, the reader will observe, are drawn from the Cuba code.]

By that all-seeing, and all-making mind: Shorten their hours they may; for will is free; But never pass the appointed destiny.

At last agreed, they call him by consent Before the queen and female parliament; And the fair speaker, rising from the chair, Did thus the judgment of the house declare: Sir knight, though I have ask'd thy life, yet still Thy destiny depends upon my will: Nor hast thou other surety than the grace Not due to thee from our offended race.

"Like one who durst his destiny control.

" The pious señora lamented as a Christian the departure of her brother-in-law, dedicating a part of her prayers to him; but she insisted with a certain cruelty in giving an account of his sad end, for she had never been able to pardon his fatal intervention in the destiny of Ulysses.

LIPPMANN, WALTER. Men of destiny.

Office boy of destiny.

Office boy of destiny.

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