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Example sentences for "analogies"

Lexicographically close words:
analog; analogia; analogical; analogically; analogie; analogon; analogous; analogously; analogue; analogues
  1. Frankland had recognized the analogies existing between the chemical properties of nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic and antimony, noting that they act as tri- or penta-valent.

  2. The transformation of polymorphs presents certain analogies to the solidification of a liquid.

  3. We have seen how its utilization in the "structure theory" permitted great clarification, and attempts were not wanting for the deduction of analogies or a periodicity between elements.

  4. Nothing is easier than to find precedents and analogies in favour of either view.

  5. In truth, his quickness in discovering and apprehending distinctions and analogies was such as a veteran judge might envy.

  6. All rights were in a state of utter uncertainty; and the Europeans who took part in the disputes of the natives confounded the confusion, by applying to Asiatic politics the public law of the West, and analogies drawn from the feudal system.

  7. Talmud rather than in the Greek classics that the analogies of his ideas must be sought.

  8. Compare birds with quadrupeds," continued Mr. Wolston, "and you will find analogies at every step.

  9. But, father, if the analogies are remarkable, the differences are not less marked.

  10. We frequently find analogies to the institutions of a lower stage in a high stage, and yet they are founded on radically different premises and causes.

  11. Perhaps the nearest approach to what Wordsworth conceived as probable was attempted by Tennyson, particularly in those parts of In Memoriam where he dragged in analogies to geological discoveries and the biological theories of his time.

  12. It is scarcely necessary to point out that these analogies form the basis of what is, perhaps, Lord Cromer's most important late essay, his Ancient and Modern Imperialism.

  13. I have only informed myself concerning it because I hoped to find analogies to the indefinite aspects of the dream.

  14. The closest analogies to these conditions of our neurotics are furnished by the types of sickness which the war has just now made so frequent--the so-called traumatic neuroses.

  15. Only the analogies which we there encounter can give us the courage to draw those assumptions which are requisite to a more fundamental elucidation of errors.

  16. You will also recognize the part played by the two important analogies in the analysis of the symptomatic act with reference to its meaning and intent and also to its relation to an unconscious factor in the situation.

  17. Let us seek analogies for these processes from other fields.

  18. These analogies seem to us to come short of proving personal immortality.

  19. And we can clearly understand these analogies, if species have once existed as varieties, and have thus originated: whereas, these analogies are utterly inexplicable if each species has been independently created.

  20. The resemblance of the greyhound and racehorse is hardly more fanciful than the analogies which have been drawn by some authors between very distinct animals.

  21. Analogies to such conditions are given in plants.

  22. These have many analogies with the seed of higher plants.

  23. These have many analogies with tumors in animals.

  24. It was such fallacious analogies as these that Heine had in view in his humorous prayer, "Heaven defend us from the Evil One and from metaphors".

  25. It will also be desirable, where analogies between ancient and modern weapons appear on the surface, to derive such probable lessons as they offer, without laying undue stress upon the points of resemblance.

  26. To a superficial glance it may appear that since this has become a matter of such indifference to the steamer, no analogies to it are to be found in present conditions, and the lessons of history in this respect are valueless.

  27. Now nothing could more clearly show that these analogies are mere accidental coincidence, and not derived from the fourth Gospel, than this passage.

  28. The late attempts of tracing analogies of origin and descent between the Chinese and Polynesian Nations, are quite vain.

  29. There are only analogies and hints of what goes on at the foundations of the world.

  30. We may leave this question untouched here, and need not even inquire whether these definitions are not themselves things of the external world employed as images and analogies and pushed too far.

  31. The mechanical point of view and the play with mechanical analogies and models are abruptly dismissed.

  32. It challenges attention and interpretation, and analogies quickly reveal themselves which give something of the same trend to all such interpretations.

  33. Bunge, of Basle, who was one of the first modern physiologists to champion vitalism, and who has tried to show by analogies and illustrations what is necessarily implied in vital activity.

  34. The mechanists help themselves out with crude analogies from the mechanical, conceal the problem with the name "irritability," and thus get rid of the greatest marvels.

  35. These only supply inadequate analogies and symbols which never really represent the actual state of the case.

  36. Still some analogies are less imperfect, less mingled with fallacy than others, and there is room for indefinite approximation towards an unattainable exactitude.

  37. He had previously wasted his time on analogies between the planetary orbits and the polyhedrons.

  38. A work of skeptical character, insisting on analogies which prohibit the positive conclusion that the planets, stars, etc.

  39. Such analogies are a favourite figure in poetry and rhetoric, but cannot prove anything.

  40. It starts, indeed, from perception and returns to it, and its thinking is controlled by the analogies of perception.

  41. Then the first step of elimination (as Bain further observes) is "to analyse the situation mentally," in the light of analogies suggested by our experience or previous knowledge.

  42. It is remarkable how intimate are the analogies established by these observers not merely between the tics of animals and of mankind, but also between their respective mental conditions.

  43. It is therefore comparable to a "professional cramp," and we may briefly note the analogies it offers to the tics.

  44. The form of the motor reactions in this condition warrants the application to it of the term chorea, but the analogies the disease presents to tic are very close, nevertheless, and sometimes the two occur in the same individual.

  45. Conditions such as these present the most intimate analogies to our attitude tics, though in the case of the latter there is always a more or less pronounced exaggeration of muscular contraction, a certain degree of tonic convulsion.

  46. Some additional details may be submitted to illustrate the intimate analogies between tics and obsessions.

  47. One cannot but be struck with the remarkable analogies to the cases given by Cohen.

  48. The second tries to compare the different products of art, to draw analogies between them, and to assign causes for certain forms.

  49. These analogies go much farther and deeper than is at first sight apparent.

  50. Even outside the circle of Christian thought these analogies in nature have always been felt to remove some of the presumptions against the Resurrection and to make room for listening to evidence in its favour.

  51. We need not, these analogies tell us, at once conclude that death ends all, for in some visible instances death is only a birth to a higher and freer life.

  52. Paul answers both inquiries by referring to analogies in the natural world.

  53. These analogies have their place and their use in removing objections and difficulties.

  54. It is, in fact, secret and powerful analogies which rule and inspire symbolical creations.

  55. There is no power I envy so much--said the divinity-student--as that of seeing analogies and making comparisons.

  56. Some of the things he has told me have suggested several odd analogies enough.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "analogies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.