One still faintly discerns among the vast number of names with which the walls of the ante-cell are bewritten, that of Lamartine.
He enumerates the mechanical arts, drawing from Hugo of St. Victor; then he follows with Augustine's explanation of the second lumen, as that which discerns corporeal things.
Neither did Bacon; he respects them, yet discerns limitations to their knowledge; by reason of their circumstances they may have neglected certain of the sciences; but this is no reason why we should.
What hediscerns is at least not a 'form of his mind's own throwing;' while his knowledge is due not to the penetration of his own finite spirit, but to the condescension of the infinite.
He has generous words for Napoleon, does full justice to his superb genius, while he exhibits his hard coarseness and selfish, unscrupulousness, and clearly discerns the fatal defects which led to his fall.
The good lawgiver discerns this likeness: but all lawgivers are not good: the bad lawgiver fancies that he discerns it, but is often mistaken.
It is when each name is given by an artistic name-constructor, who discerns the Form of the name naturally suitable in each particular case, and can embody it in appropriate letters and syllables.
She is longing for the return of her son Erhart, in whom she discerns the saviour of the family.
His characters are in reality the bankruptcy of stale heroisms; he replaces the old formula with a new, vital one--Truth at all hazards He discerns a Fourth Dimension of the spirit.
Rebekka intuitively discerns this little rift in the armour of Kroll, and flatters the worthy teacher, flatters his wife until she smuggles herself beneath the Kroll roof-tree.
The bigot discerns in Magda an abandoned creature; the men and women who see life from all sides and know the fallibility of the flesh are apt to forgive her shortcomings.
The thing he looks at reveals not this or that face, but its inmost heart, its generic secret; it dissolves itself as in light before him, so that he discerns the perfect structure of it.
Huysmans will not allow Botticelli's name to be mentioned, though he discernscertain Botticellian qualities.
He saw an elm twig covered with sparkling salt crystals, and he used it as an image to express the love that discerns in the beloved one all perfections.
His many books are a masquerade behind which onediscerns the posture of the mocker, the sensibility of a reversed idealist, and the spirit of a bitter analyst.
The former in his speculations proceeds from the multiplicity of phenomena; the latter discerns the unity of the plan.
While the casual observer faintly discerns single stars dotted in the expanse of blue overhead, he takes in the whole sweep of the heavens, readily following the movements of the stars of every magnitude.
There far back in the hazy dawn he stood while the morning mists hid the horizon from every other eye, and he alone discerns what is to be.
In the luxury of the Caesars he discerns but another condemnation of the policy of Caius Julius.
In the tragic hour the soul is thus vouchsafed a deeper vision, discerns a remoter, serener, mightier ideal which henceforth it pursues unalterably, undeviatingly, as if swept on by a law of Nature itself.
The thing he looks at reveals not this or that face of it, but its inmost heart and generic secret: it dissolves itself as in light before him, so that he discerns the perfect structure of it.
Sauveur thus correctly discerns in beats the cause of the disturbance of consonance, to which all disharmony is "probably" to be referred.
The first discerns at once the connexion of the two expositions.
One who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicious observer.
And in this variety of action in the life of faith, we notice its intelligence, the exercise of the mind of Christ, or of the spiritual sense, which discerns things that differ, which has capacity to know times and seasons according to God.
The habitual attitude of the soul, its upward gaze is more important than the quality of the veil through which it discerns the Eternal.
In the flock God discerns the weaker sheep and the stronger rams and the goats--the clergy, class-leaders, etc.
But faith finds a path where speculation discerns none.
True, he discerns that submission will not always be genuine; for he uses the same word to express it as occurs in Psalm xviii.
The cleverness which in Paris is called blague, or boulevard-esprit, the psychologist discerns as imbecility.
Edmond Haraucourt plainly discerns the aims of the Symbolists: ‘They are discontented, and in a hurry.
In aim, his work is in accord with classical traditions; he discerns the classical spirit that built temples and carved statues in the beautiful places of the open-air, a spirit which has nothing of the museum setting about it.
The theoretical reasondiscerns such truths in the realm of ontology, and in the relations and laws that underlie all subjects of physical inquiry.
According to *Kant*, the reason intuitively discerns truths that are necessary, absolute, and universal.
NOTES Unity does not lie in the emotional life of expression which we call Art, which discerns it; it does not lie in nature, but in the Soul of man.
Passion hears what love at most dreams of; passion sees what love mayhap dimly discerns in a glass darkly.
The man who succeeds above his fellows," says Lord Lytton, "is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers.
Pausing near the house, Wakefield discerns through the parlor-windows of the second floor the red glow and the glimmer and fitful flash of a comfortable fire.
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