2086 examples of enlightening in sentences

"O Orient" shows forth Christ enlightening us in the Spirit of Knowledge.

The One Spirit which enlightens you as to your actions is also enlightening your other half as to her actions; and do you suppose this Spirit is going to favor you with better judgment about your other half's duties, than it has given her?

For years had he, the Second Bonze, pleaded the cause of toleration at court; and had at length succeeded in enlightening his Majesty to such an extent that there was every prospect of an edict of indulgence being shortly promulgated, provided always that the Elixir of Life was previously forthcoming.

There was some truth in this statement; for in certain districts these measures operated not to prevent the aristocratic people of the South from enlightening the Negroes, but to keep away from them what they considered undesirable instructors.

Prominent among the southerners who endeavored to readjust their policy of enlightening the black population, were Bishop William Meade, Bishop William Capers, and Rev. C.C. Jones.

His plan of enlightening the blacks did not include literary instruction.

Many picked it up here and there, some followed occupations which were in themselves enlightening, and others learned from slaves whose attainments were unknown to their masters.

The editor felt that there was not a solitary argument that might be urged in favor of teaching a white man that might not as properly be urged in favor of enlightening a man of color.

When the reaction in the South made it impossible for the Quakers to continue their policy of enlightening the colored people, these philanthropists promoted the migration of the blacks to the Northwest Territory with still greater zeal.

I have lost the opportunity of hearing those judicious, enlightening and convincing arguments, which have been advanced during the investigation of the system.

I have lost the opportunity of hearing those judicious, enlightening and convincing arguments, which have been advanced during the investigation of the system.

Give me leave to have the honour of enlightening you, then.

If you even succeed in perplexing my understanding, you will not succeed in enlightening it.

Then I conceive the idea of enlightening Thomas Roch, myself, of the responsibility he is incurring and of revealing to him in this supreme hour the character of the men who want him to co-operate in their criminal projects.

Trade, perhaps the most corrupt and corrupting influence of lifeor, if second to anything in evil, second only to politicsis proclaimed to be the great means of humanizing, enlightening, liberalizing, and improving the human race!

And if they do, and basely pretend not to, we feel that we have done a truly patriotic service in rendering it impossible for them to avoid enlightening the public.

And as if this hymn to enlightening Christianity, chanted by an orator who could now hardly see across the gloomy hall, had been a signal, the electric lights went on; and the statues, the escutcheons, and the harsh, blatant figures painted on the cupola, sprang forth from obscurity.

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul; The testimony of Jehovah is trustworthy, making wise the simple, The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart, The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.

It is soon found that ignorance is most easily kept in subjection, and that by enlightening the mind with truth, fraud and usurpation would be made less practicable and less secure.

FUNK & WAGNALLS CO. Enlightening the world.

Going out of the harbor in the clear early morning, we had a fine view of Bartholdi's statue of Liberty Enlightening the World.

Might not then this very thing account for the Bible not enlightening us on the topic?

More enlightening than printed reports is a visit to the Triplicane Health Centre, where in the midst of a congested district work is actually going on.

I've said somewhere before, I think, that Bohun's work was in connection with the noble but uphill task of enlightening the Russian public as to the righteousness of the war, the British character, and the Anglo-Russian alliance.

No wonder, then, that a child who was not a member of any religious body, and who had never received an enlightening word from any minister, should neglect what the initiated themselves did not attend to assiduously.

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