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Example sentences for "higher kind"

  • Superstition passes straightway from immediate appearances to God, angels, demons; or it expects from finite things other effects than the conditions admit of, phenomena of a higher kind.

  • But, on the whole, he possessed a higher kind of knowledge than the Stoics, because what is thus founded cannot be held to have the significance of an implicit existence, but only a relative truth in consciousness.

  • A higher kind of substance, according to Aristotle (Metaph.

  • Praise of a higher kind is bestowed upon Cato, for he says of him, "The less he sought glory, the more it followed him.

  • We say praise of a higher kind; for the glory with the desire of which the Romans burned is the judgment of men thinking well of men.

  • For, like the simple exercise of pleasure, so also the act of preferring is sometimes of a lower or impulsive, and sometimes of a higher kind, and like the evident judgment, is qualified as right.

  • Between the Aryan-Kelt and the Aryan-Frank or Norman, there will be a difference, brought about by the progress of time and a freer intermixture with other branches of the mother-stock who attained a higher kind of civilisation.

  • Sculpture of a higher kind is unknown to him, though he can execute perfectly marvellous carvings, which, though quaint in design and composition, are wanting in proportion and expression.

  • Dramatic life of a higher kind is introduced, showing greater artistic power than the reliefs in stone.

  • To this dialectical use, by the intellect, of negation as a mode of passage towards a higher kind of affirmation, there is correlated the subtlest of moral counterparts in the sphere of the personal will.

  • But whereas the merely moralistic spurning takes an effort of volition, the Christian spurning is the result of the excitement of a higher kind of emotion, in the presence of which no exertion of volition is required.

  • Instead of placing happiness where common men place it, in comfort, he places it in a higher kind of inner excitement, which converts discomforts into sources of cheer and annuls unhappiness.

  • Just because this world of beauty which raised itself into a higher kind of culture went to pieces, Philosophy arose.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answered grimly; bunch grass; hide them; higher criticism; higher degree; higher form; higher grade; higher ground; higher learning; higher levels; higher planes; higher power; higher rank; higher rate; higher stage; higher standard; higher temperature; higher temperatures; higher wages; hostile fire; hundred things; ipso facto; military education; running over; sails were; think proper