We are affected with these respective Manners of Behaviour, as we secretly believe the Part of the Dying Person imitable by our selves, or such as we imagine our selves more particularly capable of.
Domestick Virtues concern all the World, and there is no one living who is not interested that Andromache should be an imitable Character.
The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as beingimitable by great numbers.
Worthy of imitation; as, imitable character or qualities.
God understands the possibility of the existence of man in the vision of his own essence, asimitable in this particular form, and of his own creative power.
In his hand the virtues of our Blessed Lady become a reality, intelligible to all and imitable by all.
Her life is quite imitable in most respects, as well as admirable, which is an additional reason for reading a book that is so very readable.
Be this as it may, there was one custom of our master's, which I cannot pass over in silence, because I think it imitableand worthy of imitation.
The delight in richness and sweetness of sound, even to a faulty excess, if it be evidently original, and not the result of an easily imitable mechanism, I regard as a highly favourable promise in the compositions of a young man.
Such a reason for wishing to die in conflict with such a reason for wishing to live, is as noble as it is rare, and, thank God, as imitable as it is noble.
Classic perfection is a seedless flower, imitable only by artifice, not reproducible by generation.
It remains suggestive and imitable enough to convey an idea, but not enough to precipitate a full reaction; it feeds that sphere of merely potential action which we call thought; it becomes a vehicle for intuition.
To choose an imitable hero is the boy's first act of freedom; his heart grows by finding its elective affinities, and it grows most away from home.
But diamond, since it consists of one simple unorganised substance, might be, one would think, perfectly imitable by art?
It was not, because he was raised and stirred up of God to do it; for God may raise up spirits to imitable actions.
Yet it is imitable in the like case, as from hence many grave authors concluded the lawfulness of killing a tyrant without a title.
It was not, because he had an extraordinary call, for men have an extraordinary call, to imitable actions, as the apostles had to preach.
That this isimitable in the punishment of tyrants, is cleared above.
We deny not the divine motion, but plead, that it is imitable from its moral ground, which was that command to cut off the Amalekites, Exod.
It took on a human, and therefore an imitable form.
The rapid courses of the heavenly bodies are rather imitable by our Thoughts, than our corporeal Motions; yet the solemn motions of our lives amount unto a greater measure than is commonly apprehended.
And this although the Divine Essence, being infinitely imitable ad extra, and being clearly comprehended as such by the Divine Mind, contains virtually the Divine exemplars of an infinite multitude of possible creatures.
He says, not by sacrifice, or by a Mediator, but by a steady adherence to all that is great and good and imitable in nature.
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