Here was light indeed on the destinies of men, their fitnesses and propensities, their appropriate choice of work and play!
By one of those fitnesses which fortune often adjusts, but which seem incredible in art, the wharf is now used on one side for the storage of slate, and the hulk is approached through an avenue of gravestones.
These match the prevailing green and purple of the slate-cliffs; and Nature in truth carries such fine fitnesses yet further.
And should a Biologist rejoin that there exists another account of organic facts and fitnesses probable and adequate; next comes the further inquiry, which is the most probable, the most adequate, in a word the easiest?
Perfection of Mind in Nature estimated from convergent fitnessesand correlations, as exemplified by Sight and Hearing.
Consequently, such Fitnesses as meet our view on all sides bring a reasonable conviction that Design lies beneath them.
His instincts are an unerring knowledge of fitnesses and uses within his sphere.
Natural history, physics, and chemistry, are the science of mutual fitnesses and uses among terrestrial objects.
Even to the atheist, vice is a violation of fitnesses which he knows or may know.
The first discoveries which the first human being made were of the fitnesses of the objects around him to himself and to one another.
Those fitnesses and aptnesses change, I think, from day to day.
And the aptnesses and fitnesses in accordance with which the sovereign of the day was induced to grace with the Garter such a man as the late Marquis of Mount Fidgett have, I hope, gone by.
But to be more particular, and to shew, that those eternal immutable fitnesses and unfitnesses of things cannot be defended by sound philosophy, we may weigh the following considerations.
Of peculiarfitnesses which make the earth suited to the sustentation of life, as we know that it is, we shall speak hereafter; and at present pass on to the other planets, Venus and Mercury.
Those relations have their fitnesses, and we see not how he can be a thoroughly virtuous man, who, discerning these fitnesses with the understanding, fails to recognize them in conduct.
Conscience can take cognizance only of the fitnesses which the individual man knows or believes; but it does take cognizance of all the fitnesses which he knows or believes.
The progress of knowledge is simply an enlarged acquaintance with the fitnesses of persons and things.
What is transmitted in history and in science is the record of fitnesses or unfitnesses that have been ascertained by observation, or tested by experience.
We are now concerned with it in the former aspect; and it will be sufficient for our present purpose to ascertain how much *Christianity* adds to our knowledge of the fitnesses that underlie all questions of right and duty.
But if I have had and neglected the means of knowing the right, I have violated the fitnesses of my own nature by not employing my cognitive powers on subjects of vital importance to my well-being.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fitnesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
