Impossibility of virtue bringing pleasure if practised only with that end, 35, 36.
Impossibility of benevolence becoming a pleasure if practised only with a view to that end, 37.
Impossibility of charity becoming a pleasure if practised only with a view to that end, 36.
The impossibility of obtaining peace, and the exhaustion of the realm, threw, the King into the most cruel anguish, and Desmarets into the saddest embarrassment.
I say nothing of the impossibility of this being so," she went on in a fever of expostulation.
For a moment I thought she did not mean to answer, but knowing doubtless from experience the impossibility of deceiving him, she answered with a cheerful assent, dropping her hand as she did so from before my lips.
The period and the subject of our narrative, as well as the melancholy scene to which we are about to introduce the reader, rendered it an impossibility to avoid it.
A little before this contest commenced, the black mask and a number of the pursuing party were standing on the edge of the lake looking on, conscious of the impossibility of their interference.
There must sometimes be a physical impossibility in the male element reaching the ovule, as would be the case with a plant {264} having a pistil too long for the pollen-tubes to reach the ovarium.
The impossibilityof escaping from innumerable acquaintances bores me dreadfully.
To-day, even more than yesterday, I feel the absolute impossibility of depicting in music the 'Sugar-plum Fairy.
The other could not; but if the visibleimpossibility was done, it was a witness that the invisible one could be.
The Householder's answer, in its severity and calmness, indicates the inflexible impossibility of opening to such seekers.
And the two answers put into Abraham's mouth teach the sufficiency of 'Moses and the prophets,' little as these say about the future, and the impossibility of compelling men to listen to a divine message to which they do not wish to listen.
The exercise of the right of association becomes dangerous in proportion to the impossibility which excludes great parties from acquiring the majority.
He meant to prove that one hypothesis was impossible by the suggestion of a counter-impossibility more self-evident.
How could we say that, because there is an assemblage of forces, there is an impossibility of thinking, and that the part is capable of doing what the whole cannot do?
The impossibility to suppose non-existent an infinitely perfect being, who, on the other hand, is himself found not impossible to suppose, ought to bring home to the heart the fact that he lives.
We have to discuss whether such an impossibility renders non-Euclidean spaces logically faulty.
All this argument is designed to show, in detail, the logical impossibility of measuring distance by any curve not completely defined by the two points whose distance apart is required.
As regards the third point, the impossibility of applying conceptions of magnitude to space as a whole, a longer argument will be necessary, for we are concerned, here, with the whole question of the logical nature of judgments of magnitude.
Though O'Sullivan afterwards pondered on these words till he almost believed them to have been an inspiration from Heaven, he at the moment vehemently asserted the impossibility of his making such an exertion.
Adelaide: "even in endeavouring to view him with indifference, her mind must have been too long filled with his idea, not to feel the impossibility of its ever being possessed by a second choice.
With one voice they assured me that nothing short of the impossibility of obtaining land or employment at home could drive them to seek the doubtful benefits of a foreign shore.
The total impossibility that such a project should answer its given purpose, deterred not Mr. Tyrold from listening to his request.
He is the willing agent of the Major; he would portion me, I suppose, for him, to accelerate the impossibility of ever thinking of me!
While John the Evangelist, the last of the twelve, yet breathed, a miracle was still possible: his breath departed, it became an impossibility for evermore.
And all this impossibility is heightened by the nature of some of those parables in which he treated of his kingdom.
France and the King owed to him Fouche's introduction into the Council, and I had to thank him for the impossibility of resuming a situation which I had relinquished for the purpose of following the King into Belgium.
I have spoken earlier of the impossibility of fulfilling the higher functions of life without this faculty.
This was borne for a considerable period by the mercantile world, in consideration of the importance of their commerce, and the impossibility of finding their exports in other countries.
As it happened the Mongol emperor was at this time in desperate straits and foresaw the impossibility of long holding Peking against the Ming forces.
The repeated ill success of their arms, and more particularly the capture of Cornwallis and his army, at length convinced the British nation of the impossibility of reducing the Americans to subjection.
A moment's reflection will convince every dispassionate mind of the physicalimpossibility of carrying either proposal into execution.
America is triumphant and England cast down; but the latter has still a great, unbroken maritime force, and the hope of forming a beneficial alliance with the colonies, the impossibility of their being subdued by arms being now demonstrated.
When God made our first parents, he made them male and female, and it will not be difficult to believe in the impossibility of the finite being able to undo the work of the Infinite.
It is almost animpossibility for the tempted to withstand their wiles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impossibility" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: absurdity; futility; hopelessness; paradox; rarity
