He accepts in the main Kemble's doctrines as to the Mark, the allotment of land, the opposition of folkland and book-land, and expounds them with greater fulness and better insight into the evidence.
The chief strength of his work lies in the chapters devoted to husbandry; but if one accepts his conclusions, what is to be done with the social part of the question?
Finding therefore that they can do no more, the friends follow weeping to the courthouse of the chief magistrate, where the one who wishes to be born declares solemnly and openly that he accepts the conditions attached to his decision.
We accept it much as the hero accepts his own struggle--he believes in the values which he is fighting for and we sympathetically make his will ours.
On the other hand, we admit aesthetic value to fanciful painting and literature, and to expressions of beliefs which no one accepts at the present time.
But Mr. Brewer accepts the version of a confessed boaster as if it was a complete and trustworthy account of what had actually passed.
Robinet is very interesting, for he thoroughly believes in his master, and accepts the whole Comtist religion, calendar and all, which Littré and others reject.
The Christian theist, by his faith in God, accepts the mysteries which are involved in the thought of God, but, unlike the unbeliever, he escapes from contradictions and absurdities.
If, indeed, she accepts you, as I believe she will, it will be from affection solely.
So that, if she accepts my love, it will be through no worthiness of mine.
Look at Sam Ruddell, drunk half his time, and too lazy and mean to do any honest work at any time; yet he claims to be one of the elect, and the church accepts him as such.
Mr. Brown, on purely speculative grounds, lightly accepts from the very passage in question.
S from E accepts hastely, but the former fits in better with line 740.
Hausknecht accepts it as the original of the first part of the Sowdone.
Further, from the indubitable reference in the Howlat to the Bruce, Neilson accepts the latter as the sole source of its digression, and the lines as therefore authentic.
A king who acceptsthe terms of a government which are impossible, accepts his own overthrow by anticipation.
It explains too why Engels said (and Labriola accepts the remark), that it is nothing more than a new method; which means a denial that it is a new theory.
He accepts everything that he believes to be true, and rejects all that he thinks is false.
When Glory accepts him at last, you not only feel, but you know she has acted the fool.
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
It degrades every soul that teaches it, or that accepts it, in the same way that idolatry degrades it.
Christ suffers evil as evil, or in direct and simple substitution for evil that was to be suffered by us; so that God accepts one evil in place of the other, and, being satisfied in this manner, is able to justify or pardon.
He who shrinks from this supposition accepts the supernatural, all at once, at the beginning, instead of the supernatural all the way along, “What does he gain by it?
Pelagius said, “This is fatalism, under the name of grace, and is saying that God accepts the persons of men.
The Old School Presbyterianism, or Princeton Orthodoxy, acceptsit in its entireness.
And yet, as Schleiermacher has shown,(27) if it accepts total depravity, it must also consistently accept the Calvinistic doctrine of election.
Running through them all is the tone of a soldier in authority who accepts assistance from a friendly, influential, well-meaning but imperfectly instructed civilian.
Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has at stake.
When one accepts a man one accepts him as he stands, with all his habits.
It is one of the four which the most thorough-going destructive criticism accepts as genuine.
Artistic contemplation accepts the work of art just as it displays itself qua external object, in immediate determinateness and sensuous individuality clothed in colour, figure, and sound, or as a single isolated perception, etc.
A new party boldly accepts new principles while the old parties are struggling to conform to precedents.
When a man understands what that means, and accepts it in the faith of what Christ can do, then one step can bring him from carnal to spiritual.
Come into contact with Jesus in this rest of faith that accepts His life fully, that trusts Him fully, and the power will come by faith to overcome the world; by faith to bless others; by faith to live a life to the glory of God.
The one cultivates chiefly his pessimism, and accepts his obscenities into the bargain, though without enthusiasm, and often even with visible embarrassment and secret repugnance.
The Englishman accepts a fit of delirium if it appears with footnotes, and is conquered by an absurdity if it is accompanied by diagrams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accepts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
