Since the essences of things are as a matter of fact disseminated through the whole extent of time and space, it is in their spread-outness and alternation that he will enjoy them.
Various essences of good have thus been found and proposed as bases of the ethical system.
The god, having suffered neglect for half a century, had a greater need than ever of gold and silver to fill his coffers; he required masons for his buildings, slaves and cattle for his farms, perfumed essences and incense for his daily rites.
King of Alasia speaks of essenceswhich he is sending to Amenôthes III.
Through those various vessels runs the blood, a liquor soft and oily, and by this oiliness proper to retain the most subtle spirits, just as the most subtle and spirituous essences are preserved in gummy bodies.
Motion must be essential to bodies, and all the laws of motion must also be as necessary as the essences of natures are.
They all mean romance, and contribute to that exchange ofessences which we saw was the primitive protozoic law.
What is called the oil of olives is not a single, simple substance, but it is more or less combined with other essential elements, and will fuse and coalesce with other oils and essences of similar nature.
I was extremely distressed, and not knowing what to do I called to the woman to bring some vinegar, as I had no essences about me.
When we had burnt incense, and sprinkled the essences appropriate to the cult of Selenis, we took off all our clothes, and holding the letter concealed in my left hand, with the right I graciously led Madame d'Urfe to the brink of the bath.
Yet ancient philosophy did not see what consequences would result from this for mathematics, for Plotinus, like Plato, erected mathematical essences into absolute realities.
The first two essences belong to physical science, for they are subject to change; the last belongs to another science, if there is no principle common to all.
Hence again, the natural world of species and essences is not eternal, but only endures as long as there are individual substances.
The argument about essences in the Metaphysics is as follows:--Since a separate individual, e.
This eternity of the world became one of his characteristic doctrines, and subsequently enabled him to explain how essences can be eternal without being separate from this world which is also eternal (cf.
Similarly, the universal essence of a species is not one and the same as each individual essence, but is the whole number of similar individual essences of the similar individuals of the species, e.
And the scent of festivity, the odour of flowers, and hair, of essences that women love, rose suffocatingly in the heat of the summer night.
The essences which are deduced from some appearances are the evil essences, and conversely from others the good.
To know and acknowledge essences alone and nothing but essences, that is religion; its realm is a realm of essences, spooks, and ghosts.
Essences have their existence in everything sensuous, especially in the word.
As feeling is our sense for things, so thinking is our sense for essences (thoughts).
Yet even Locke supposed that, though the essences of classes are nominal, individuals have real essences, which, though unknown, are the causes of their sensible properties.
Locke convinced most thinkers that the supposed essences of classes are simply the significations of their names.
His nominal essences were the essences of classes, explained nearly as we have now explained them.
The essencesof individuals were an unmeaning figment arising from a misapprehension of the essences of classes, yet even Locke, when he extirpated the parent error, could not shake himself free from that which was its fruit.
The doctrines which prevented the real meaning of Essences from being understood, had not assumed so settled a shape in the time of Aristotle and his immediate followers, as was afterward given to them by the Realists of the Middle Ages.
But besides nominal essences, he admitted real essences, or essences of individual objects, which he supposed to be the causes of the sensible properties of those objects.
Des Esseintes studied and analyzed the essences of these fluids, experimenting to corroborate their texts.
Regardless of seasons and climates he forced trees of diverse essences into life, and flowers with conflicting fragrances and colors.
The gems of holiness fell a prey to crushing grief, the essences of sanctity bowed down in sorrow.
Even the essencesof sanctity cried out in fear, and the gems of holiness moaned and lamented, while our own inner selves fell to ashes, and there was no peace left in the soul, no patience in the heart.
Or, rather, that the great eternity, the never-dying essences of things, would sink into your little passing bit of humanity?
Essences are more difficult to prepare, and therefore more valuable, than weak solutions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "essences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
