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Example sentences for "greater perfection"

  • In mandarins, all kinds do remarkably well, and I never saw this fruit produced to greater perfection in any part of the world than it is in Queensland.

  • Thus we see, that the mind can undergo many changes, and can pass sometimes to a state of greater perfection, sometimes to a state of lesser perfection.

  • By pleasure therefore in the following propositions I shall signify a passive state wherein the mind passes to a greater perfection.

  • Pleasure is the transition of a man from a less to a greater perfection.

  • When, therefore, the mind is able to contemplate itself, it is thereby assumed to pass to a greater perfection, or (III.

  • No man understands human nature to greater perfection, nor has a happier power of persuasion.

  • Here Fulgentius went aboard a ship for Alexandria, being desirous, for the sake of greater perfection, to visit the deserts of Egypt, renowned for the sanctity of the solitaries who dwelt there.

  • His application to sacred studies was uninterrupted, and if he arrived not at greater perfection in polite literature, this was owing to the want of masters of that branch in the confusion of those times.

  • It would be in vain to enquire, whether the Power of Imagining Things strongly proceeds from any greater Perfection in the Soul, or from any nicer Texture in the Brain of one Man than of another.

  • Thirdly, Because Morality gives a greater Perfection to human Nature, by quieting the Mind, moderating the Passions, and advancing the Happiness of every Man in his private Capacity.

  • Perhaps all the productions of nature are in their progress to greater perfection!

  • Joy is man's passage from a less to a greater perfection.

  • In France they are plentiful, and many are imported from the south of that country and Italy, where they are much larger and in greater perfection: they lose, however, much of their flavour by drying.

  • May be purchased all the year; but are in greater perfection in the winter, and are more suitable for that season, as fresh fruit cannot be obtained.

  • This bird takes its name from that of a town in Surrey, where the breed is to be found in greater numbers, and certainly in greater perfection, than elsewhere.

  • Pleasure" is the transition of a man from a less to a greater perfection.

  • By "pleasure" therefore in the following propositions I shall signify "a passive state wherein the mind passes to a greater perfection.

  • Note--Thus we see, that the mind can undergo many changes, and can pass sometimes to a state of greater perfection, sometimes to a state of lesser perfection.

  • In greater perfection, then, than man, do animals enjoy the senses which relate to appetite: and though of their present existence they have a consciousness, of their past they have none.

  • This is enjoyed by man in greater perfection than by animals.

  • I was now not sorry myself at coming away, for I knew that it was an act of greater perfection, and for the service of God.

  • This father began by putting me in the way of greater perfection.

  • In answer to my prayers, our Lord has very often rescued souls from mortal sins and led others on to greater perfection.

  • All my service of God there was lip-service: why did I, having the opportunity of living in greater perfection, neglect it?

  • For the imperfection that attends the dissolution of the body might lead to the sense of a greater perfection, which was suspended or checked by the continuity which is now broken: and in this respect the body would be as it were a prison.

  • I have proved this in further detail in this work by pointing out, through instances taken from mathematics and elsewhere, that an imperfection in the part may be required for a greater perfection in the whole.

  • But one might have added that God has produced indeed the most perfect whole that was possible, one wherewith he had full cause for satisfaction, the imperfections of the parts serving a greater perfection in the whole.


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