His splendid public benefactions in regulating the water-supply of the town have been already noticed, and may be better realised in Lelieur's careful drawings.
This convent, which was also known as the "Val Notre Dame," is not the only trace which the Duke of Bedford's benefactions left in Rouen.
It institutes new occasions of worship and thanksgiving as history reveals new benefactions of God to his people in various generations.
Like Bahya he compares God's benefactions with those of one man to another to show the infinite superiority of the former, and the greater duty which follows therefrom.
The authority of the Guild was supported by its wealth, contributed by the benefactions of the members, which rendered it in course of time, after the lord of the manor, the largest landowner in and about the town.
It owes its present stately proportions and Perpendicular style largely to the benefactions of Grevel and others.
From different parts large benefactions were received by this society, and it was soon enabled to support a number of missionaries in the plantations.
About this time the society incorporated by King William, having received large benefactionsfor the purpose of propagating the gospel, began to exert themselves for sending over, and maintaining missionaries in the plantations.
These aggressive wardens grazed the churchyard for profit, looked coldly upon a proposal to put up Tables of Benefactions in the church, and altogether acted in a manner so high-handed as to call forth this historic protest.
The law pursues the natural child even to its legitimate descent, on the ground that benefactions done to grandchildren reach the natural son through that medium.
Doing his ownbenefactions without hope of a celestial harvest, he thought himself on a nobler plane than religious men whom he always accused for making, as he called it, terms with God.
In many other cases he allowed his name to be used as vice-president or member, when he considered the object of the organization a worthy one, and his benefactions were only limited by his means.
This is the locus classicus on the benefactions of the Prince (see Introduction to vol.
A committee was in charge of benefactions which were bestowed upon them, and papers relating to their doings make part of the collection of old documents in the Charity Building in Boston.
Very interesting lists of benefactions for the benefit of libraries may be found in the volumes of the Library Journal, New York.
A still more widely successful means of securing a library foundation that shall be permanent is found in uniting private benefactions with public money to found or to maintain a library.
Select and valuable in its principal contents, it has received numerous benefactions from the friends of learning, and promises to become the best, as it already is much the largest, among the university libraries of the country.
Mark Twain's benefactions were not all for the colored race.
Trivial letters, seeking benefactions of every kind, took the savor from his daily mail.
The institution is susceptible still of great improvement from benefactionsproposed by several successive Boards of Visitors, to whose earnest and repeated recommendations I cheerfully add my own.
The memory of these gifts was kept alive among the people by the “bede-roll” or list of those for whom the parish was bound to pray in return for their benefactions to the public good.
It might have been easy to justify the Crown’s action in taking the priest’s portion, and even the little pittance intended for the serving clerk, but the seizure of the benefactions to the poor cannot be defended.
And he claims that mark of a divine presence in his work, that its benefactions come, without noise or perturbation, in aura leni.
His benefactions to the Hotel Dieu must be considered rather under the head of charity, and yet they also serve to represent his encouragement of medical education and of the proper care for the poor in educated hands.
But I cannot leave my readers to infer from my silence that his benefactions were confined wholly or mainly to colored persons.
Here I must indulge myself in telling some of the much that I have known of the benefactions of this magnificent giver.
Restore, O God of Sion, O restore, Thy ancient benefactionsin her favour.
The memorial goes no further than to authorize them to receive such benefactions as may be made, and hold them in trust.
Some other individuals have likewise destined part of their land for its support, and other benefactions may be expected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benefactions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
