Professor Goldhizer says: "Long locks of hair and a long beard are mythological attributes of the sun.
We affirm no more of God than materialists imply of matter, and we endow him with no attributes that they do not virtually ascribe to matter.
We are reproached for the inconsistency of believing in a Power we cannot comprehend, and endowing him with attributes of which we can form no just conceptions.
All are agreed," says Cicero, "that Apollo is none other than the SUN, because the attributes which are commonly ascribed to Apollo do so wonderfully agree thereto.
But the emblems and attributes essential to this deity are also transplanted into the mythology of the West.
The three attributes called Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, are indicated by letters corresponding to our A.
Thus we see that long locks of golden hair, and a flowing robe, are mythological attributes of the Sun.
In it he admits the miracles of Apollonius, but attributes them to sorcery.
After this ceremony, temples, altars, and images, with attributes of divinity, were erected to the new deity.
Goldzhier says: "Long locks of hair and a long beard are mythological attributes of the Sun.
The celebrated symbol of the wing, the globe, and the serpent, is supposed to have stood for the different attributes of God.
His Christ was an ideal conception, evolved from his own feeling and imagination, and taking on new powers and attributes from year to year to suit each new emergency.
He was invested with the attributes of divinity, and that in the earliest times of which we possess monumental evidence.
Distressing as it is, it attributes no wrong doing to the Order.
He attributes Choiseul's fall to the regard that Madame du Barry had for the Society.
He there attributes to himself, from controversial motives, a piety far above the ordinary, and speaks of the tremendous labours and penances which he imposed upon himself in his blindness.
He attributes to them an interpretation of the passage which was certainly not theirs, and, from his own interpretation, draws strange and quite unfounded inferences.
He even overlooks the fact that this Father, in one of the passages alleged, says the very opposite to his new ideas on unconditional predestination to hell, and attributes in every case the fate of the damned to their own moral misdeeds.
Further on he attributes to all theologians the teaching of the Occamists (see above, p.
Pope Julius II and the “tyrannical acts” which he attributesto Boniface VIII.
The above-mentioned Bishop of Chiemsee attributes the corruption of the priesthood principally to the misuse by clergy and laity of their right of patronage both in nominations and by arbitrary interference.
As though all Scholastics, old and new, had taught what Luther here attributes to them, viz.
Geiler of Kaysersberg is of the same opinion; heattributes to the laity, more particularly to the patrons among the nobility, the sad condition of the parishes.
At a later date he attributes the evil thoughts which plagued him to the influence of a demon.
Add that when we say the soul, we mean to say, and do say the person, which is not separated from the consciousness of the attributes that constitute it, thought and will.
These absolutes are nothing else than the attributes of God, and it may be said they are just as much the source of ideas as God is in himself the principle of beings.
So the richness of the determinations and the attributes of God is exactly the sign of the plenitude of his being.
We have no right to impute to him all theseattributes in virtue of the single argument that every contingent being supposes a being that is not so, that every finite supposes an infinite.
Not having employed a sufficient psychology, Alexandrian mysticism imagined that diversity ofattributes is incompatible with simplicity of essence, and through fear of corrupting simple and pure essence, it made of it an abstraction.
Conscience attributes to him no merit, and no one owes him thanks or recompense, for he only thinks of himself.
In the 'sixties people of wealth and position surrounded themselves with certain attributes of power and wealth, which gave to the populace some indication of their rank and their social status, and in manners they were reserved and dignified.
The God of my youth was endowed with all the attributes of awe-inspiring terror, which we to-day associate with the evil one.
The rear ship of the inner column, the Atholl, was officially an armored cruiser, but possessed none of the attributes of the cruiser class.
Proclus attributes the discovery of this proposition to Thales.
Although Eudemus attributes all five to Pythagoras, it is certain that the tetrahedron, cube, and octahedron were known to the Egyptians, since they appear in their architectural decorations.
Now the nine millions of human creatures which we here refer to present at first sight all the attributes of the human race; they have the hyoid bone, the coracoid process, the acromion, the zygomatic arch.
We shall further give the various attributes and characteristics of the gods, goddesses, and other mythological personages which distinguish the various statues visible in Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman sculpture.
The name of the child was chosen by both parents, generally after the name of either of the grandparents, sometimes, also, after the name orattributes of a deity, under whose particular protection the child was thus placed.
Through this impulse, they were induced to solemnize the funeral obsequies of their kings with the enthusiasm described by the historian; and to this he partly attributes the unexampled duration of the Egyptian monarchy.
The colors of this picture are still quite fresh, a result which Signor Fiorelli attributesto his having caused a varnish of wax to be laid over the painting at the time of its discovery.
The Etruscans, it is said, cultivated painting before the Greeks, and Pliny attributes to the former a certain degree of perfection before the Greeks had emerged from the infancy of the art.
They stood before the sanctuary, built all of granite, and covered with sculptures representing symbolical attributes of the god to whom the temple was consecrated.
Lucian attributes to him great improvements in the rendering of drapery so as to show the forms underneath.
Tradition attributes to them the first works which were used to adorn the temples of Rome, and, according to Pliny, not much consideration was bestowed either on the arts or on the artists.
Ogden Hoffman, indeed, excelled him in all the attributes of a great lawyer.
Concede all foibles harshness would reprove, And what choice attributes remain to love.
Cumming, who attributes the conversion of the unbelieving to the Divine Spirit, can think it necessary to co-operate with that Spirit by argumentative white lies.
Of my position and acts in connection with the commemorations of the colony, it asserts matters which never existed, and attributes to me motives which I have never entertained.
It is but justice to the name of Chalmers to state that he made no such statement as "Sabino" attributes to him.
He next wrote an Essay on the Being and Attributes of the Deity, and a reply to Thomas Prout, On the Divinity of Christ and the Eternal Sonship.
Fairness, equity, straight dealing are attributes for which all men entertain a hearty and unfeigned respect.
For selfishness is a moral term and, as we have seen, moral attributes are inapplicable except to a wrong choice of the will.
Moral attributes belong only to the will, which we may provisionally call the centre of man's personality.
If in anything he thought himself 'superior and alone,' having attributes which others could not claim, it was in his possessing a divine commission as the conservator of ancient truth and rules.
He introduced the term, "moral sense," which he defined as a power of perceiving moral attributes in action.
But the letters contained among these manuscripts shows us the women of Casanova writing to him with all the fervour and all the fidelity which he attributes to them; and they show him to us in the character of as fervid and faithful a lover.
It asserts no legislative power, proposes no legislative action; and neither possesses the form nor any of the attributes of a legislative measure.
No man that I have ever conversed with had a higher or more sublime notion of the attributes and benevolence of the Deity, and no one a better knowledge of the Bible.
To fiddle, while Rome burnt, upon the almost divine attributes of her successive rulers, this was not the austere storage of song which Milton himself practised.
I myself believe, from a particular line in Sophocles, that chess was invented by Palamedes, at the siege of Troy; although Seneca attributes it to Chilon, one of the seven Grecian sages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attributes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: endowment; nature; stuff
