They were indocile and turbulent; not only disturbing by their wild pranks the peace of the city, but interrupting by their noisy behavior and inattention the master's discourses and lectures.
In glowing discourses the orators of the church, in melodious hymns the poets, sounded forth their praises.
These discourses embrace prophecies of the coming of Christ and His atoning sufferings and death, statements about baptism and the Lord’s supper, about the great Apostle of the Gentiles, the rejection of the O.
But though among the Syrian discourses of Aphraates (§ 47, 13) there is found one on monasticism, which thus would seem to have been introduced into Mesopotamia by A.
According to his own statement quoted by Photius he was a hearer of the doctrinal discourses of Irenæus.
The chief sources of information about his doctrine are the 56 rhyming discourses of Ephraem [Ephraim] against the heretics.
Among the 176 Sermones ascribed to him, the discourses expository of the baptismal formula are deserving of special mention.
To the opposite extreme of human intelligence Mr. Mayo ministers in the Church of the Redeemer, and many of his wise and timely discourses reach all the thinking public through the daily press.
We think the volume is upon the whole one of the best volumes of discourses ever issued from the American press.
We welcome with almost as much surprise as satisfaction the appearance of a volume of discourses as excellent as those of Mr. Peabody.
When Dean Colet preached or catechised in Saint Paul's in the afternoon they both attended and listened, but that good man was in failing health, and his wise discourses were less frequent.
When such things happened, and discourses like Beale's were heard, it was not surprising that Ambrose's faith in the clergy as guides received severe shocks.
After 1783 these discourses caused a great sensation, since Hertzberg introduced into them a review of the financial situation, which in the days of absolutism seemed an unprecedented innovation.
By Bernard's fiery discourses men of all ranks were carried away.
But this is not the dominant note of the Buddha's discourses as we have them.
The compilers of such discourses regarded the gods as mere embellishments, as gargoyles and quaint figures in the cathedral porch, not as saints above the altar.
Though he sometimes spoke with reference to special events he no doubt had a set of discourses which he regularly repeated.
Of greater general interest is the Sutta Pitaka, in which the sermons and discourses of the Buddha are collected.
The first four are mainly in prose and contain discourses attributed to Gotama or his disciples.
Nearly all the events and discourses recorded in it are found elsewhere in the canon in the same words[372] and it contains explanatory matter of a suspiciously apologetic nature.
But still I suspect that repetition characterized not only the reports of the discourses but the discourses themselves.
This simple and direct route is the one contemplated in the older discourses but later doctrine and popular feeling came to regard it as more and more unusual, just as saints grow fewer as the centuries advance further from the Apostolic age.
Some of the rather miscellaneous contents of this Nikâya are late and do not belong to the same epoch of thought as the discourses attributed to Gotama.
He opens very practically, and it may be noticed that abstruse as are many of his discourses they generally go straight to the heart of some contemporary interest.
A frequent phrase in the Buddha's discourses speaks of the "highest goal of the holy life for the sake of which clansmen leave their homes and go forth into homelessness.
The four collections ofdiscourses bear the names of Dîgha, Majjhima, Saṃyutta and Anguttara.
But his procedure in regard to the Lord's Supper was even more remarkable for its independence, than {36} the tenour of his discourses was for its adherence to the Pauline theology.
To these Quixotical discourses she replied by saying that all honest folk congratulated her upon acquiring my favour.
At which time he had many such discourses to his friends; he also let such go free as had been bound by the tyrants, and were left in the prisons.
The soul which is seeking to hold communion with God, and so from their fountain-head to be filled with strength and joy, has something better to do than to be listening to such discourses as these.
See Journal of Discourses of that date, and Millennial Star, vol.
Paul thus discourses concerning them: "Now, concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
The writers of the New Testament make Christ's atonement the principal theme of theirdiscourses and epistles.
I had been a year at the Divinity Hall then, and was going up to put in my discourses for the next session.
By such discourses the ambition of Otho was perpetually aroused; they served to deepen his discontent at his present obscurity, and to convert to distaste the only solace it afforded in the innocence and affection of Leoline.
We desire that the dear brother and sister may be instrumental in shedding around them, wherever the Lord may call them, that humble confidence in the wisdom from above that characterizes all their discourses and their lives.
They have spoken amongst us the words of peace and charity, nor has anything in their discourses wounded any faithful soul, either as regards his faith or his individual opinions.
Good citizenship was the ideal ever present to the late Master of Balliol in his dealings with his pupils, just as it had been present centuries earlier to Socrates in his discourses to Plato, or in his conversations with Alcibiades.
He discoursesof several of his Masters Cheats, whereby he gets his Estate.
Several other Discourses we had, whereby she gave me instructions how to behave my self; and, said she, since you intend to make one of my family, I shall give you an account of my manner and method in governing the same.
And what was excellent, though unusual, she would temper her discourses with religion, and strangely draw concerned parties to submission and agreement; exercising not so much the rigour of her power, as the power of her persuasion.
The Johannine discourses reveal differences from the Synoptists so profound as to be admitted by all.
For an able though hardly convincing argument for the originality of the discourses of Elihu see Budde's Commentary.
And sacramentalism informs the great discourses concerning rebirth by water and the spirit, and feeding on the Living Bread, Jesus' flesh and blood, and the narrative of the issue of blood and water from the dead Jesus' side.
Jesus' signs and apologetic or polemical discourses to the outer world; hence onwards it pictures the manifestation of His glory to the inner circle of His disciples.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discourses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
