The reason of God contemplates and comprehends the exemplars or original models of all natural forms, whatever they may be; for visible things are only fleeting shadows, quickly passing away; ideas or exemplars are everlasting.
Plato regards universals, types, or exemplars as having an actual existence; Aristotle declares that they are mere abstractions of reasoning.
And this although the Divine Essence, being infinitely imitable ad extra, and being clearly comprehended as such by the Divine Mind, contains virtually the Divine exemplars of an infinite multitude of possible creatures.
Do we not consider possible essences as the prototypes and exemplars to which actual things must conform in order to be actual, in order to exist at all?
He bade his readers turn their minds away from the current literature of the day, and take hold of the exemplars of excellence handed down to us by the great men of the past.
Those may boast of the laurel who sing worthily of things pertaining to heroes, substituting heroic souls for speculative and moral philosophy, praising them and setting them as mirrors and exemplars for political and civil actions.
But in consequence of the perishable character of papyrus those exemplars have disappeared and live only in their cursive posterity.
Afterwards came a period when both bad and good exemplars offered themselves in rivalry, and the power of refusing the evil and choosing the good was in exercise, often with much want of success.
While the Eastbourne clock tower is awaiting the architectural canonization it deserves, the town itself has still more closely approached to southernexemplars by starting a carnival of its own.
And there shall be amongst them exemplars of this virtue and that one singly; and at intervals through the centuries standards for emulation among the many, a few, in whom all the excellences shall be blent in indivisible comeliness.
Origen's position would bring him into contact with exemplars from many distant churches.
The exemplars in general use were in a most unsatisfactory state: there were hardly two alike.
In the fixed truths of mathematical abstractions he found the exemplars of social and personal virtue.
We find that nearly all the leading characters who figure in Bible history, and who are held up as moral exemplars of the human race, were guilty of lying either directly or indirectly.
It will be perceived, from the preceding orthodox testimonies, that the class of people usually stigmatized as infidels are the true exemplarsin practical morality, and the true benefactors of society.
Thus the Homeric Greeks, set up by Schiller as exemplars of the simple life, were plainly subject to the conventions of an advanced civilization.
In some of its late exemplars decorum had actually become, as Rousseau complains, the “mask of hypocrisy” and the “varnish of vice.
As with the other exemplars of genius examined we need here, too, to gain some insight into his "internal secretion heredity.
Fear and anger, respectively bound up with the activities of the adrenal medulla and cortex, we shall see, provide as good exemplars as any of this process.
Do you know of your own knowledge that the exemplars sent to you were all written by me?
He testified that he could not make a decision on the first set of exemplars sent him.
I assumed that the exemplars that I was given were authentic exemplars or standards of your own writing.
Anuse promptly went into a damage control frenzy trying to destroy the point made that the exemplars were not authenticated.
Certainty was not possible since they contained printing and I was not given enough or recent enough exemplars of Dr.
She faithfully recorded the words being spoken and knew that standards or exemplars are writing and printing that are authenticated.
She next established that all of the exemplars that the analyst worked from were copies.
Using two large easels, she demonstrated various letters and combination of letters photographed and enlarged from the standards or exemplars and from the 'suspect' documents.
The chiefs of the earth, especially the exemplars of divine justice, must make strenuous efforts to guard this state and to upraise and preserve it.
We therefore accept the exemplars at the risk of seeing our native hue of resolution all sicklied o'er with this pale cast of thought.
Christians might well find exemplars in the early martyrs, those who for their principles went so readily to the lions.
He calls you a dreamer for your principles, but he can't show, now nor in history, that his exemplars were ever justified.
Even in what are considered the successful exemplars in this department of literature, the errors incident to artificiality, the conventional forms of writing, are patent.
We expect that the presidents of the stakes of Zion will be exemplars to the people.
It is a part of their duty to see that there are those capable of being nurses as well as teachers and exemplars in Zion, and that they have an opportunity to become thoroughly prepared for {483} this great labor and responsibility.
If, with all our native exemplars to give us courage, we persist in striving to write well, we can easily resign to other nations all the secondary fame to be picked up by commentators.
Those natives who have had little or no communication with Europeans are the best exemplars of the true character of the nation.
In their behaviour towards their parents and their priests they stand as excellent exemplars of reverence and obedience.
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