53 examples of mankind's in sentences

Even the petted armies of autocracy became possessed with the new belief in mankind's brotherhood.

Unlike to mankind's mixed characters, a bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably intertwisted, and not to be unravelled without hazard, he isgood throughout.

(THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM) Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome:

Certainly, over the affair the Knights of the Round Table launched many a quip and jest, but that simply proved the fineness of their sentiments toward a certain delicate human relation which forms mankind's single awful approach to the creative and the holy.

" Now, gentlemen, this is the principle which humanity expects, for your own and for mankind's benefit, to see maintained by you, and not yonder fatal course, which permits tyrants to draw from your country every facility for the oppression of their nations, but forbids nations to buy the means of defence.

I was told that it was not possible, when the battle for mankind's liberty is fought, for the sword of Washington to rest in its scabbard.

In truth it will be a noble joy to your great Republic to feel that the moral influence of your glorious example has worked this happy development in mankind's destiny; nor have I the slightest doubt of the efficacy of that example.

Washington were perhaps a name "unknown, unhonoured, and unsung," and this proud constellation of your glorious stars had perhaps not yet risen on mankind's skyinstead of being now about to become the sun of Freedom.

The spirit of freedom moves through the air; and remember, that you are morally somewhat responsible for it, inasmuch as it is your glorious struggle for independence which was the first upheaving of mankind's heart roused to self-conscious life.

No; precisely the contrary, if you now declare "that your very existence being founded on that principle of the eternal laws of nature and of nature's Godthat every nation has the independent right to regulate its domestic concerns, to fix its institutions and its government"you cannot contemplate with indifference that the absolutist powers form a league of mutual support against this principle of mankind's common law.

And Americans, pretending to be republicans, pretending to sympathize with liberty, and wield that light artillery of Freedom,the Press,try to put on me mean stigmas, in order to make it impossible for me to aid the contest of Hungary for its own and mankind's liberty.

The sun of freedom is but one, on mankind's sky, and when darkness spreads it will spread over all alike."

"There is a community in mankind's destiny"that was the greeting which I read on the arch of welcome on the Capitol Hill of Massachusetts.

But, however dark be the impression of such ruins of vanished greatness upon the mind of men who themselves have experienced the fragility of human fate, thanks to God, there are bright spots yet on earth, where the recollections of the past, brightened by present prosperity, strengthen the faith in the future of mankind's destiny.

His profound sagacity, pondering the logical issue of America's position, has penetrated into the hidden mystery of future events; and he has seen his country summoned, by God himself, to fight in the vanguard for mankind's civil and religious liberty.

For one generation alone is incompetent to decide upon the merits of any author whatever; and as literature, like all art, is a thing of human invention, so it can be pronounced good only if it obtains lasting admiration, by establishing a permanent appeal to mankind's deepest feeling for truth and beauty.

But what so long in vain, and yet unknown, By poor mankind's benighted wit is sought, Shall in this age to Britain first be shown, And hence be to admiring nations taught.

My father governs with unquestion'd right, The faith's defender, and mankind's delight; Good, gracious, just, observant of the laws; And Heaven by wonders has espoused his cause.

For points obscure are of small use to learn: But common quiet is mankind's concern.

"Storms are the fruit-tree's bane; the brook's, a summer hot and dry; The stag's a woven net, a gin the dove's; Mankind's, a soft sweet maiden.

Sardanapalus and Heliogabalus may have been whatever else you please, but they were assuredly not commonplace; and the mere mention of their names vibrates with mankind's perennial gratitude for splendour and colossal display, however perverse, and even absurd.

The book of dogs; an intimate study of mankind's best friend, by Ernest Harold Baynes, with natural color portraits of 76 types of dogs from paintings of Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Hashime Murayama.

Walter Scott expresses mankind's proneness to revenge in words as powerful as they are true: "Vengeance is the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell!"

" Chapter V "A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.

In these last decades of his life Schlegel turned, as had his younger brother, to the inviting field of Sanskrit literature and philology, and extracted large and important treasures which may still be reckoned among mankind's valued resources.

53 examples of  mankind's  in sentences