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Example sentences for "founds"

Lexicographically close words:
foundling; foundlings; foundress; foundries; foundry; fount; fountain; fountaine; fountained; fountaines
  1. In this tract nothing deserves notice, more than that Browne considers the oracles as evidently and indubitably supernatural, and founds all his disquisition upon that postulate.

  2. I know not upon what observation Mr. Hanway founds his confidence in the governours of the Foundling Hospital, men of whom I have not any knowledge, but whom I entreat to consider a little the minds, as well as bodies, of the children.

  3. Dum-founding is explained by a stage direction in Bury-fair, where "Sir Humphrey dum-founds the Count with a rap betwixt the shoulders.

  4. Then Phoebe purred to him and rubbed her cheek against his chin, whereon the glint vanished from his eyes, and they were soft again.

  5. There is here the introduction of an element which is not patriarchal, and which transforms the patriarch or chief of a tribe into the city or state, and founds the civil order, or what is now called civilization.

  6. Later he founds the weekly Family Journal of Education.

  7. First introduction of the Kindergarten system into England by Miss Prætorius, who founds a Kindergarten at Fitzroy Square.

  8. Iris, the messenger, who hears him, in her reply founds the superiority of Jupiter on his seniority only.

  9. These are the expressions on which Elihu founds his charge, but the precise words attributed to Job were never used by him, and in many places he both said and implied that the favour of God was his greatest joy.

  10. With the same view of the absolute sovereignty of God in creation and providence on which Eliphaz founds in this passage, Jonathan Edwards sees the necessity of escaping the conclusion to which these verses point.

  11. Champlain comes again to Quebec; founds Montreal; sails for France on July 20th.

  12. As lieutenant of de Monts, viceroy of New France, Champlain crosses the Atlantic and founds Quebec.

  13. Champlain's sickness and death; his wife founds an Ursuline convent at Meaux.

  14. In this way each would be founded without there having been a progression into infinitude; but then that which founds would also be that which is founded, and there would merely be a passing from one to the other.

  15. Man makes the castle, and founds the power,--God forms the river and creates the Genius.

  16. A true follower of the Tathagata founds not his trust upon austerities or rituals but giving up the idea of self relies with his whole heart upon Amitabha, which is the unbounded light of truth.

  17. Helena, saint and Empress, visits Palestine and founds churches there.

  18. Ardashir overthrows the Parthian kingdom; he founds the new Persian kingdom of the Sassanidæ.


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