His abjuration of the religion now become dominant, and which he wished to annihilate by degrees, was an error in policy, which he must have discovered to his cost had his reign been prolonged.
It is the eighteenth century, more philosophical, if perhaps less reasonable, that first conceived the idea of uniting two really incompatible things, without perceiving that one of the two was destined to annihilate the other.
Madame was terrified; she endeavoured to pacify him, but the more she tried the more vigorously he threatened to annihilate everything.
The hour is now come to annihilate and to revenge.
I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.
These were the Chanaanitish Baalim, offshoots of the supreme Baal, who were returning to their first cause to humble themselves before his might and annihilate themselves in his splendour.
But he fell into a passion with his father, contending that he was quite able to annihilate the whole people, since he was the master of Carthage.
The spectacle afforded by Carthage irritated the Barbarians; they admired it and execrated it, and would have liked both to annihilate it and to dwell in it.
We can conceive of succession in time as not existing, but we can not, in thought, annihilate duration.
To extintinguish guilt they would annihilate the soul.
They want to inflict them, and to annihilate conspiracies.
His aim is to paralyze, if he cannot annihilate them.
Broadly enunciated, the principle of the conservation of force asserts, that the quantity of force in the universe is as unalterable as the quantity of matter; that it is alike impossible to create force and to annihilate it.
He furiously brandished his hammer, with intent toannihilate the boaster.
You may deprive it of hope, but you cannot annihilate it.
Because thought can influence thought, but thought cannot influence self-conceit; learning can annihilate learning; but learning cannot annihilate ignorance.
To eat a person is, according to primitive ideas, to annihilate him as an individual,[37] and we can readily imagine the triumphant feelings of a savage who has his enemy between his jaws.
Meanwhile the discharges of artillery, quite close to us, were so tremendous, that each seemed sufficient to annihilate the city.
The gods themselves,' sings Pindar, 'cannot annihilate the action that is done.
The purport of this man's existence has been to wither up and annihilate all whereon Majesty and Worship for the present rests: and is it so that the world recognises him?
If you have an idea upon any subject, I will utterly annihilate it to my own most profound satisfaction; if you have none concerning any special point, I will force you to accept mine, as mine, or to die the intellectual death.
Sooner or later she would turn upon him and annihilate him in a dream of unconsciousness; he knew that, and he knew that such faint power of resisting her as he had ever possessed was gone.
This aggression placed the ancient republic, so far as France was concerned, in the light of a hostile power, and entitled Buonaparte to deal with her as a conquered one, perhaps to divide, or altogether to annihilate her.
They desired to intimidate, or annihilate and dethrone the Pope.
Forgiveness does not at once and wholly annihilate the tendency to transgress.
Strange for a divine messenger, if He simply stood as one in the line and sequence of divine revelation, to begin His work by saying, 'Now, I do not mean to annihilate all that is behind Me!
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