Constant expresses himself with absolute frankness in his letters to this faithful and devoted friend; from them we learn how he felt and thought as a youth.
Constant himself thus expresses the moral of the book: "The strongest passion cannot survive the struggle with the established order of things.
Of all the great authors of the past century, Montesquieu is the only one for whom Barante expresses any really warm admiration.
Alpine horn expresses the romance of the Alps more forcibly than any painting; for we admire what we see, but we feel what we hear.
The lavatory accommodation is better than we have seen it in the fast expresses on the principal lines in England, and on the through service expresses there are restaurant cars where meals may be partaken of at a moderate tariff.
Now and then some indifferent Unitarian expressesdoubt as to the future value of our particular church.
Abraham Lincoln had a marvelous aptitude for condensed statement, and in this compact sentence from his Cooper Union address expresses the very essence of the appeal that is made to us today.
She expresses great sorrow for her unfortunate insane impulse, and has often begged her husband to have her placed in an asylum.
Lydston, expresses surprise that the brothel should occupy such a prominent place in the ancient chronicles.
It is characteristic of Mrs. Radcliffe's tendency to overlook the obvious in searching for the subtle, that the girl who feels these recondite emotions expressesslight embarrassment when unceremoniously flung on the protection of strangers.
Never before have I realised how right I was in maintaining that the small area expresses the real patriotism: the smaller the field the taller the tower.
It is equally obvious that a landscape painter expresses only half of the landscape; a portrait painter only half of the person; they are lucky if they express so much.
That nursery tale from nowhere about St. George and the Dragon really expresses best the relation between the West and the East.
Solemnity here expresses only the idea of ceremony, or formal observance.
Ritson and others say that Juliet means vespers, as there is no such thing as evening mass; and Staunton expresses surprise that S.
Romeo and Juliet, with "great store of cunning epitaphs in honour of their death;" but in the introduction he expresses a very different opinion of the lovers and finds a very different lesson in their fate.
The sight of Antonio reminds Shylock of his hatred of the Merchant, and the passion expressesitself in verse, the vernacular tongue of poetry.
As the old chronicler expresses it, he 'took to himself eagle's wings and desired to search out the reasons of all in heaven and on earth.
Thus far therefore we have come: by Faust being saved it is meant that he escapes from the fiend and reaches heaven, reaches the 'higher spheres' of existence, as Goethe expresses it.
The casual concept, as given by experience, expresses not a necessary objective order of things, but an ordered scheme of perception; it is subjective and cannot be postulated as a concrete law apart from consciousness.
The letter is filled with adulation, but expresses also the writer's honest approval of the king's momentary policy of peace.
Perhaps the most intimate companion of these Roman days was Scipio Carteromachos, a Tuscan scholar, with whom Erasmus had made acquaintance at Bologna, and for whom he expresses unusual regard.
The owner usually expresses a price that he wishes to pay for his house before he expresses his idea.
A letter, recently received from one of the most distinguished men of the continent of Europe, expresses the universal feeling on the other side of the ocean.
I ask and hope for it the Divine blessing, as far as it expresses Truth, and breathes the spirit of Justice and Humanity.
This word, borrowed from his condition, expressesthe ruin wrought by slavery within him.
First, between a synthesised totality and a principle of synthesis; the former may involve a prior synthesis; the latter does not depend upon synthesis, but expresses the predetermined nature of some special form of synthesis.
The "ought" of the moral imperative expresses a kind of necessity and a form of causation which we nowhere find in the world of nature.
This passage in which Hume means to depict a false belief, already sufficiently condemned by the absurdity of its claims, expresses for Leibniz the wonderful but literal truth.
It creates this conceptual world in the very act of apprehending it; and as this realm of truth thus expresses the necessary character of all thought, whether divine or human, it is universal and unchanging.
The intelligible, as thus conceived by the understanding, expresses itself, as he later shows, in a series of theses; while the sensuous expresses its opposite and conflicting character in a series of antitheses.
In A 121-2 Kant expresses his position in a more ambiguous manner.
It expressesitself through the proposition, I am I.
Properly viewed, it expresses a merely instinctive belief, and is explicable only in the naturalistic manner of our other propensities, as necessary to the fulfilling of some practical need.
So long as Kant expresseshimself in these terms his statements are entirely valid.
It expresses that modification in the Leibnizian rationalism which is demanded by Hume's discovery of the synthetic character of the causal axiom.
In 1783, however, in the Prolegomena, Kant expresses himself in much more ambiguous terms, for his words imply that there is a parallelism between geometry and arithmetic.
The Pope who thus expresses himself, is Gregory the Second, one of those who may be suspected of having been amongst the first, who sought to extend, beyond the bounds of the apostolat, the pontifical authority.
Ariosto energetically expresses the contemptinto which it had fallen[14] and places it among the various chimeras which Astolphus meets with in the moon.
Thus a pope expresses himself who, imprisoned, exiled, and deposed by Constantius, never disputed the rights of the sovereign who treated him with so much rigour and even injustice.
The poem expresses many beautiful ideas, but the underlying conceptions lack the unity and grandeur that marked Aristotle's work, which later was the potent influence in shaping men's minds.
An inspired matron expresses her astonishment that her young kinswoman should deign to visit her.
He expresses his opinion that the same kind of air would be obtained by heating nitre without addition, and this opinion is founded on the fact that when nitre is detonated with charcoal it gives out abundance of carbonic acid gas.
From the very general terms in which Hook expresses himself, we cannot judge correctly of the extent of his knowledge.
Indeed no one in Jamaica expresses a doubt on this subject, who does not obviously do so for the sake of buying land to better advantage!
In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either.
St. Luke expresses it still more strongly: "They brought unto him even infants, that he might touch them.
Snake) seems under deep convictions, weeps much, and expresses much sorrow for his former bad doings.
I insert his letter, as it expresses (though in strong language) the general feeling of those outside of the Church of England in regard to this Chart.
A young lady who says she 'wants to know,' expresses very dangerous sentiments.
But Geoffrey's was the order of mind which expresses disturbance by attaching importance to trifles.
What word is it which expresses two things we men all wish to get, one bringing the other, but which if we do get them, the one bringing the other, we are unhappy?
What one sentence expresses the wish of both the Southern Confederacy and the United States government?
Their letter, a copy of which is annexed, expressestheir resolution to accept this invitation, and moreover contains proofs of an unlimited confidence in the justice and goodness of Congress.
Tilly and Philadelphia should take place with the greatest possible despatch, he requests Congress to inform him, whether the line of expresses has been kept up, and if so, to whom he is to apply in order to make use of it.
It is the only means of conveyance now left me, since the chain of expresses formed by the dragoon horses, which were worn down and sent to their cantonment, have been discontinued.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
