To the student of the relations between Christianity and science it must appear doubtful whether the criticism or the other consequences which the men of science had to meet from the Church was harmful to their work.
But further, it is the business of criticism not only to keep watch over the vagaries of philosophy, but to do the duty of police in the whole world of thought.
The memorable service rendered to the cause of sound thinking by Descartes consisted in this: that he laid the foundation of modern philosophical criticism by his inquiry into the nature of certainty.
Hume's letter to Mure of Caldwell, containing a criticism of Leechman's sermon (Burton, I.
It was this sense of having abused innocence, or ignorance, which led to the present reaction in criticism no doubt, and yet the present reaction was an error.
He was, indeed, tolerably safe from the chance, for it is one of the conditions of literary criticism that the reviewers shall be nearly always young persons.
He would even go so far as to say that there was no just and honest criticism without quotation.
But the unsparing criticism of their defects was made implicitly to take the character of appreciation of the Æschylus tragedies, whose good points were all turned to the light without open mention of them.
The explanatory and illustrative passages could be interpolated in the text of the criticism without interrupting the critic, and something for Spenser might thus be done on the scale of what Addison did for Milton.
In the absence of any such body of facts the Muellerian hypothesis cannot rank as more than a plausible suggestion, and, as will appear later, it is open to severe criticism on general grounds.
Riches for his kindly criticism on reading over the proof-sheets.
Criticism has stripped from her the rags and tatters of the philosophy which was not her own.
It was precisely because he was so young that he let his eagerness to defend a woman in distress make him forget the ordinary usage of society, and expose himself to mean and unworthy criticism which lasted all his life.
No criticism can be very instructive which descends not to particulars, and is not full of examples and illustrations.
It included not only what he was doing and thinking himself in fiction, and criticism of whatever he was reading, but what other people were trying to do in our American magazines.
Their loneliness forced them to grow together most harmoniously, but their long exercise in literary criticism would have made them possibly merciless judges of H.
Criticism is of an abject density and puerility--it doesn't exist--it writes the intellect of our race too low.
Under their auspices he made his way into publication and became a regular contributor of criticism and fiction to several journals and reviews.
The formal criticismpassed upon me by my father was magnified to make my tariff vote appear an inexcusable party and community defection.
The Mormon Church deprived me of nothing; it deprived itself of the helpful criticism of its members.
It meant a breach with many of my friends in the Church who would blindly resent my criticism of the political apostles as an encouragement to the enemies of the faith.
When all is said and done in criticism of present social deficiencies, one may well wonder whether the root difficulty does not lie in the separation of natural and moral science.
The reforming zeal was shown in criticism of the evils inherited from the class system of feudalism, evils economic, legal and political.
By this time Hearn seems to have come to resent criticism of the Japanese.
Nor is this a criticism of his work, for astronomy has been advancing rapidly of late; and when that is true no man can expect all his views, even if accepted at the time, to endure.
His criticism is a good exemplification of the general religious view taken of woman's relation to man.
SAXE not long since, in a poem, satirized literary women very keenly, upon which Grace Greenwood wrote a severe criticism on his volume, which was published in The Evening Post.
I do not propose to enter into a full criticism of Mr. Smith's long letter.
We have indulged freely in criticism of each other when alone, and hotly contended whenever we have differed, but in our friendship of thirty years there has never been a break of one hour.
The editorial criticism of the Chairman of the Educational Committee, paid me the high compliment of saying, that "in spite of her efforts Mrs. Nichols could not unsex herself; even her voice was full of womanly pathos.
In all such reproductions the standard of criticism must be the same.
Ann was a high-spirited girl, and this blunt criticism touched her in that vivid, quivering region of the mind where no woman stops to reason.
Criticism and Improvement Rhymes Under this tabulation, let us now proceed to discuss the Origin and Evolution of Negro Folk Rhymes.
So extreme are the positions of some, so evidently tinctured with overreadiness forcriticism and unbelief, that they must be excluded from the "most" above described.
But it is my hope to point out the way in which we find our faith strengthened, and to show that the great truths of Christianity will survive the most radical criticism of the Scriptures.
The latter treatise is a learned criticism of Ariosto's Latin poetry from a point of view somewhat too indulgent to Ariosto as a poet and a man.
The criticism of Ariosto's comedies must be reserved for another chapter.
Orlando would live as long as the AEneid, or that the flattering lies invented by his courier would in after ages turn the fierce glare of criticism and celebrity upon the darkest corners of his own history?
Secretary Webster had received castigation from political leaders, and sharp criticism from his own party over the Ashburton Treaty, and was ready to resent every remote allusion to it, as a give-away of American interests.
There have been few great men that have not felt the stings of criticism and misrepresentation.
And she in her diary expresses profound thankfulness when, years after, the last vestige of criticism ceased and the old cordiality was restored.
Me too," said several women as one, and criticism was temporarily abated.
Criticism must begin with something, and the blanc-mange seemed a proper subject to one woman, who was reputed to be very religious.
Some of the words were ridiculous, but there could be no criticism of the spirit of the singers.
De Groote was equally well known for his criticism of the abuses among the clergy, his denunciation of the luxury displayed by the rich and the mystic character of his preaching.
Germany had now become the main source of danger, but in order to avoid all criticism it was decided to build two bridgeheads, one at Namur and the other at Liége.
It was only a few months previously that the voice of historical criticism had authoritatively declared him to be "fabulous" and "mythical.
The discoveries of Oriental archaeology have come with a rude shock to disturb both the conclusions of this imperfectly-equipped criticism and the principles on which they rest.
Of criticism he makes no mention, Since all such matters unworthy attention He leaves to his grandmother, Hecate.
Every criticism of such a personification then seems like a blow aimed at the moral laws.
But let us pass beyond the Persian legend, carrying that and the biblical story together, for submission to the criticism of a Brahman.
It is a criticism on the nudity of the Greek forms that appear in the classical Walpurgis Night.
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent.
Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts, than in that which is innocuous; and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes, than of that which falls impotently on the grave.
It is a barren kind of criticismwhich tells you what a thing is not.
All the other powers of literature are coy and haughty, they must be long courted, and at last are not always gained; but criticism is a goddess easy of access and forward of advance, she will meet the slow and encourage the timorous.
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and metre.
And those who have schemes, as well as those who are startled by the criticism in laughter to discover that they have cause for shunning it, rejoice when wits are absent.
Her only regret was on account of the exclusion of Colney Durance from the party, because of happy memories associating him with the Seine-land, and also that his bilious criticism of his countrymen was moderated by a trip to the Continent.
In this widely different and lower class, criticismseems to be agreed in placing the greater portion of Pericles, Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, two parts of Henry VI.
But criticism seems to have established, and critics seem to agree, that in the works accredited to him are plays of a lower order, which certainly are not from the same author as the remainder, and especially the greater plays.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "criticism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
