1355 examples of reformations in sentences

It has taken wars and persecutions, revolutions and reformations, the blood of saints and martyrs, the sorrow of ages, to plant this precept in the mind of man.

As reformations are often carried beyond necessity, possibly lentils may have fallen into disuse, as an article of diet amongst Protestants, for fear the use of them might be considered a sign of popery.

I have been looking at his reformations.'

He left a legacy to his successors which makes them still potent on the earth, in spite of reformations and revolutions, and all the triumphs of literature and science.

'Tis true they have the envy and curses of the old and ugly of both sexes, and a general persecution from all old women; but this is no more than all reformations must expect in their beginning.

On the last leaf is a note by Sir Henry Herbert:"This Play called ye Seamans honest wife, all ye Oaths left out in ye action as they are crost in ye booke & all other Reformations strictly observed, may bee acted, not otherwise.

By this means small poets have such a stock of able hard words lying by them, as dryads, hamadryads, Aonides, fauni, nymphae, sylvani, &c., that signify nothing at all, and such a world of pedantic terms of the same kind, as may serve to furnish all the new inventions and thorough reformations that can happen between this and Plato's great year.

Other reformations of the same kind will be pursued with that caution which is requisite in removing useless things, not to injure what is retained.

What few reformations were effected were very partial, leaving the more enormous immoralities as shameless and defiant as ever, up to the very day of abolition; demonstrating the utter impotence of all attempts to purify the streams while the fountain is poison.

What few reformations were effected were very partial, leaving the more enormous immoralities as shameless and defiant as ever, up to the very day of abolition; demonstrating the utter impotence of all attempts to purify the streams while the fountain is poison.

French Revolutions, Reformations, etc., are all ends of ages and judgments.)

Who once at such a gentle reign repine, The fall of monarchy itself design: From hate to that their reformations spring, And David not their grievance, but the king.

The reformations effected were like wresting prey from the mighty.

94; v. 375; King Bob, v. 374; Kinghorn, v. 56; Kirkwall, C. J. Fox member for it, iv. 266, n. 2; known to each other, ii. 473; Knox's 'reformations,' v. 61-2; Kyle, v. 107, n. 1; lady-like woman, v. 157; Lanark, ii. 64; iii. 116, 359; land permanently unsaleable, ii. 414, n. 1; landlords 'a high situation,' i. 409; land-tax, ii.

Nor would he, to excite a speedy reformation, have conjured up such phantoms as these: 'A few years longer, and, perhaps, all endeavours will be in vain.

But instead of producing, as might be wished, private compunction and immediate reformation, it kindled only rage and resentment.

Mr. Gladstone first goes into the questionWhat was done, and what was the understanding at the Reformation?

This is the great change made in her positionmade insensibly, and In a great measure, undesignedlywhich has altered altogether the understanding on which she stood towards the Crown at the Reformation.

Laws ecclesiastical by ecclesiastical judges, let this be her principle; it plants her on the ground of ancient times, of the Reformation, of our continuous history, of reason and of right.

Two great thinkers of past generations, two of the keenest and clearest intellects which have appeared since the Reformation, laid the foundations of it long ago.

The German and English Reformations had already modified this state of things, and given to the lay community a certain portion of influence in religious questions and affairs.

"As to S.W.'s proposal," she writes, "I cannot think of acceding to it, because I have seen so clearly that my pen, at least, must be employed in the great reformations of the day, and if I engaged in a school, my time would not be my own.

I must confess I value my right very little in a Society which is frowning on all the moral reformations of the day, and almost enslaving its members by unchristian and unreasonable restrictions, with regard to uniting with others in these works of faith and labors of love.

Simplicity and complacency were taken for arrogance, and the mother and daughter were kept upon formal terms of civility by all but the Merrifields, who were driven into discussion and opposition by the young lady's attempts at reformations in the parish.

They are at best a reformation of popery, and only reformations in part.

1355 examples of  reformations  in sentences