Lind mentioned this symptom, and in this connection remarks on the beneficent effect of antiscorbutic treatment.
Any diet that leads to the development of scurvy in man likewise brings it about in the guinea-pig, and contrariwise, any food which cures the disorder has the same beneficent effect on both species.
Every disease or trouble that assails them is produced by the immediate agency of the demons sent to punish them: while, on the other hand, every blessing or success comes directly from the hands of the beneficent and supreme God.
Others are isolated individuals, ruined beings, 'lost sons' of families of beneficent beings, who are exceptional in their hostility to man.
What became of the divine king's female partner, the human goddess who shared his bed and transmitted his beneficent energies to the rest of nature, we cannot say.
This last is a case of the beneficent transference of evil; for in it no attempt seems to be made to shift the burden of misfortune to anybody else.
The Lushais of Assam believe in a beneficent spirit named Pathian, who made everything but troubles himself very little about men.
M192 Certain features in these processions or races of mummers seem to shew that the mummers represent beneficent spirits of fertility, who quicken the seed in the ground and offspring in the wombs of women.
The Buddhist priests exert themselves actively in the beneficent enterprise.
There is no longer any doubt that the influence of slavery on the negro, as a form of industry, was both beneficent and maleficent.
But the removal of industries from the family group has not always had the beneficent effect of simply giving more time to the parents for the proper care of their children.
It was said of Ptolemy and his consort that "the beneficent gods have benefited the temples in the land and greatly increased the dignity of the gods.
There was even a new order[3] of priesthood instituted, known as the "priesthood of the beneficent gods.
Throughout Egyptian mythology the cat is to be found, and generally in a beneficent aspect.
Later, beneficent attributes were ascribed to it, but the dark side always persisted.
He it was who made the Nile in the Duat and conducted it to men, causing its waters to rise; he, also, who sent the rain to those lands which were beyond the reach of the Nile's beneficent flood.
It appeared plain to him that its diurnal career was cut short by the attacks of some enemy, and the logical sequel of the belief in the solar deity as a beneficent power was of course that the force hostile to him must be of evil disposition.
Think you the diabolical spirit of the murderers can be pleasing to a beneficent Creator?
The Sheik sent us gold, but my husband's beneficent spirit would not allow him to enrich himself while there were poor to be relieved, and this pledge was almost forgotten, until to-day it came on my sight like a messenger from heaven.
Oh, will you for a caprice forego the satisfaction of doing a noble deed, and tarnish with blood the annals of a beneficent reign?
She will end by hating the beneficent King, and probably no one will contribute more than she towards establishing the republican regime in France.
England's Pantheon, not of superstitious and selfish hysteria, but of beneficent and healthy manhood.
We had occasion to send a few into the interior of Asia, and the Blessed Virgin showed herself no less powerful or beneficent there than in Europe.
Man, by a beneficent law of his Maker, is permanently secured in his first and best pursuit.
For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.
The co-operative stores have reached a wonderful development in England, with most beneficent results.
The occasional presence of Royalty, too, in Ireland, as was made manifest during the late Queen's visit, unquestionably would have beneficent results.
It may fairly be said that the National system has been a beneficent influence of the greatest value; light has shone on a people that once sate in darkness.
The beneficent seasons of Spring and Summer coming to an end at the Autumnal Equinox, the 22d of September was made the anniversary of the Autumnal Crucifixion.
Why has this beneficent current cast them upon the shores of death and destruction when it should have carried them into the safe port of domesticity?
The wrongs done to commerce for thirty years back, and under so many different Presidents, and indemnities withheld from all, have been repaired and paid over under the beneficent and glorious administration of President Jackson.
In fact, a beneficent and considerate Dean and Chapter have wisely placed it beyond the means of such a person to do so.
The beneficent source had begun to flow once more, as if it were inexhaustible.
Yonder lies a whole kingdom of corn, a whole new world to be created by labor, with the help of the beneficent waters and our father the sun, the source of eternal life.
There they would be at home, on the very breast of the beneficent earth, under the central and now gigantic oak, planted by the two ancestors, whose blessed fruitfulness the whole swarming progeny was about to celebrate.
And when this trench has been opened to the edge of the slope, you will see the pond dry up, and the spring gush forth and take its course, carrying the beneficent water away.
And the new springs, turned into canals on every side, again carriedbeneficent life to the sandy slopes, and fertilized them.
A few generations have accumulated, in all the older States, hospitals, schools, and beneficent institutions, practically equal in every respect to those which have been the slow growth of centuries in any European country.
Such an impression was assuredly formed in Ireland and in Canada, and indeed in every place where Lord and Lady Aberdeen were able to assert their unostentatious and most beneficent influence.
If this emperor's life had come down through provincial, and not metropolitan, channels, we should have heard of him as the mostbeneficent of men.
To the Yang, the Higher, belong the Shen or gods,--all conscious beneficent forces within and without man.
Now Augustus, beyond any question, was one of the most beneficent forces that ever appeared in history; and no monster can be turned, by the mere circumstance of success achieved, into that.
A tide of some beneficent force seemed to be flooding its dry wastes.
We have now the fairest prospects before us, and an unembarrassed field for the exercise of every beneficent disposition, and for the accomplishment of every object of reciprocal advantage between us.
The virtuous citizens of America in particular can never forget his beneficent attention to their violated rights, nor cease to acknowledge the hand of a gracious Providence in raising for them so powerful and illustrious a friend.
Thus it has the doubly beneficent office of tempering the rays that would otherwise be scorching and of hindering a radiation that would leave the planet stiffened and frozen.
They have been brought up to regard it as a perfectly harmless and beneficent institution, and cannot understand the attitude taken with regard to it by the Catholic Church.
It is quite true that Freemasonry may have in these countries kept to its original constitution, which, we may admit, was of a beneficent nature.
And the experience of the most advanced countries confirms this by the beneficent and preventive influence of criminal legislation resting on efficacious social reforms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beneficent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
