The question is not whether spiritual interests be or be not superior in importance to temporal interests; but whether the machinery which happens at any moment to be employed for the purpose of protecting certain temporal interests of a society be necessarily such a machinery as is fitted to promote the spiritual interests of that society.

It is of much more importance that the knowledge of religious truth should be wisely diffused than that the art of sculpture should flourish among us.

Men who are perfectly agreed as to the importance of the former object, and as to the way of obtaining it, differ as widely as possible respecting the latter object.

Mr. Weber is known to the admirers of our antient literature by two publications which, although they may not be deemed of great importance in themselves, have yet a fair claim to notice.

He somewhat exaggerates the extent of this feeling, and greatly misstates or mistakes the cause; and as this subject is in the present state of the world of more importance than any others in the work, we hope we may be excused for some observations tending to a sounder opinion on that subject.

It is neither so captivating as the one, nor so grand as the other, but it affords to those who frequent it a pleasure nearly allied with the experience of their own social habits; and what is of some importance, the youthful wanderer may return from his promenade to the ordinary business of life, without any chance of having his head turned by the recollection of the scene through which he has been wandering.

It was also of importance to break the power of the Hsiung-nu in the province of Kansu, and to separate them as far as possible from the Tibetans living in that region, to prevent any union between those two dangerous adversaries.

A third point of importance was the safeguarding of caravan routes.

At this time came the end of the Hsiung-nu empirea foreign event of the utmost importance.

Yet Wang Mang had great need of money, because he attached importance to display and because he was planning a new war.

Although he reported (A.D. 78) that the troops could feed themselves in Turkestan and needed neither supplies nor money from home, no reinforcements of any importance were sent; only a few hundred or perhaps a thousand men, mostly released criminals, reached him.

At this time there were two other series of events of equal importance with those.

They were the product of the leisure of rich members of the gentry, and only three of them are of importance.

Let me add that no one brick out of the many laid is of no importance.

The actions produced and producible by the agency of alternating currents of considerable energy are assuming greater importance in the electric arts.

Mrs. Draper has accordingly decided greatly to extend the original plan of work, and to have it conducted on a scale suited to its importance.

The most rapid plates are needed in this work, other considerations being generally of less importance.

Recognizing the importance of supplying this demand for the most sensitive plates possible, the Seed Company have recently succeeded in making still more sensitive plates, which we are now using.

And when we think of the wondrous scene which took place on that occasion, the one thought it should impress on our minds, above all others isthe importance of humility.

It was hard work to get the timber up, and so the commander, who was a proud man and thought himself of great importance, kept calling out to them from time to time, "Push away, boys!

And here we learn the unspeakable importance of the death of Christ.

The apostle Paul was showing his sense of its importance when he said, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus."

This is a good illustration to show the importance of taking care of the lambs.

That work, of course, differs enormously in amount, nature, importance, and interest with different offices.

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