This philosopher naturally is no Greek of Plato's or Aristotle's time, but a good Roman, who regards moralis philosophia as the finis omnium disciplinarum, and hangs all intellectual considerations upon a discussion of the summum bonum.
God not only is the efficient and exemplary cause, but also the final cause of all things (Divina bonitas estfinis omnium rerum).
Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora ferme, et finis inclinat=--The commencement of our official duties is characterised by greater vigour and alacrity, but towards the end they flag.
Ah," said the refugees, shrugging their shoulders, "finis la guerre!
It looked like finis la guerre pour moi for a second.
This catalogue closes with the following sentence: Finis totius Bibliothece Pontificie: viz.
Moses Bickerstaff wrote those famous sermons ov hiz, that shook the moral firmament from dan to bersheebe, upon the head ov a flower barrel, with a bony pen made from the dorsal feather finis ov an untamed osstrich.
Finis iz the end ov all things--the happyest place in the whole job.
Finis iz the best and only friend that menny a man in this world ever haz, and sum day Finis will be the autokrat ov the universe.
So the woman no longer has any descendants to perpetuate her; she is the finis familiae suae.
What put them in this difficulty was the fact that the individual passed as being the finis naturae--the ultimate creation of nature; it seemed that there was nothing beyond him, or at least nothing that science could touch.
Thank goodness Oswald has wired he is through, that is he has wired his favourite phrase: Finis with Jubilation.
This card contains the characters FINIS punched in columns 10-14.
The FINIS card then follows this additional EOP card.
Algol Procedure 'EØP' FINIS Example 6 Here the procedure compiled by itself in example 5 appears in the program deck in relocatable binary form, while the calling program is in the Algol language.
And now the very Schloss is dead; and there is finis to a human dust-vortex, such as is sometimes noisy for a time.
The next batter wrote finis to the game by sending a high foul into the first baseman’s gloves, and the grand stand was emptied of its throng.
It is said that he exclaimed, on seeing all hopes at an end, "Finis Poloniæ!
The French, asfinis of their attempt to cut Germany in Four, find themselves sunk into torpor, abeyance and dry-rot; fermenting towards they know not what.
Luther Paulinized, Evangelicalized, the Catechism by properly setting forth in his explanations the finis historiae, the blessed meaning of the great deeds of God, the doctrine of justificaiton.
FINIS To old Mrs. Prentiss, watching apprehensively each low mountain dawn, the long, golden days of the warm autumn formed a series of blessed reprieves from the loom which hung over her.
When the recording angel wrote Finis at the close of that sad and weary but bravely spent and useful life, it was a sad day for the world of men, who will not look upon his like again.
When he wrote Finis for the last time at the close of one of those matchless volumes, it was an epoch closed in the history of literature.
