To attempt to give up the visible things in any other way, save in the energy of that faith which lays hold of the invisible, is the most fruitless labor possible.
It, assuredly, is not God's object to make us astronomers or geologists; or to occupy us with details which the microscope or the telescope lays before every school-boy.
Faith lays up its treasure in a place which nature would never dream of examining and, as to its approaching thereto, it could not if it would; and it would not if it could.
An Illustrated Edition of theLays of the Scottish Cavaliers.
This Winepress is called War on Earth; it is the printing-press Of Los, there he lays his words in order above the mortal brain As cogs are formed in a wheel to turn the cogs of the adverse wheel.
Upon each of these the prophet, as it were, lays hand, compelling the thing into shape and speech, constraining the abstract to do service as a man might.
I see the face of my Heavenly Father; He lays His hand upon my head, and gives a blessing to all my work.
EVE fainted over the dead body of ABEL which lays near a grave.
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
What, then, does Pope mean, when he says that Shakspeare "lays his scene amongst tradesmen and mechanics?
Perhaps then, in this point of view, it is not unreasonable to assert, that a man ought not to kill himself before the deity lays him under a necessity of doing so, such as that now laid on me.
Antiochus lays siege to Alexandria; the Egyptians apply to Rome for aid.
Hannibal lays siege to Saguntum, which he destroys; this is the real commencement of the Second Punic War.
Having intervened between the brothers John Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II, and decided in favor of Hyrcanus, Pompey lays siege to Jerusalem, where Aristobulus reigns, captures it, and makes Judea a Roman province.
It seems he buys ground and a farm in the country, and lays out money upon building, and God knows what!
He then laysthe matter before the new-comer, who promises to talk the peasant over with soft words; for, says he, there is nothing accomplished with vainglory.
The red squirrel lays up no stores like the provident chipmunk, but scours about for food in all weathers, feeding upon the seeds in the cones of the hemlock that still cling to the tree, upon sumac-bobs, and the seeds of frozen apples.
He lays up stores irregularly, by fits and starts; he never has enough put up to carry him over the winter; hence he is more or less active all the season.
It is he who, high in the hollow trunk of some tree, lays by a store of beech-nuts for winter use.
As things are, the state lays greater burdens on parents than flesh and blood can bear, and then wrings its hands over an evil for which it is itself mainly responsible.
Clausewitz clearly lays down: "War is only a continuation of State policy by other means.
Hence the great emphasis which he always and everywhere lays upon character and these military virtues as the deciding factors in war.
It is always good policy, if not to stimulate, at all events to preserve, the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Eymeric lays it down that the circumstances justifying its application are that the case against the accused has been half-proved already or that the accused has contradicted himself.
Wonder if she lays that little dimpled hand on their foreheads, as she did on mine?
Why, when disease lays its iron grasp on bounding life, does the startled soul so earnestly, so tearfully, so imploringly, call on its forgotten Saviour?
Now, she lays its little cheek to hers; now, she kisses the little slender fingers; but still the baby moans.
The heron's nest is not unlike that of the rook, only larger and broader; it is made of sticks and lined with wool and coarse grass; the femalelays four or five eggs of a green colour, her long legs are tucked under her.
You are quite right; I believe it has been proved that the cuckoo lays her egg on the ground, and carries it in her bill into other birds' nests.
The little bird lays many eggs, from six to nine, in the month of April; they are nearly white, with a few pinkish spots, generally at the larger end of the egg.
The blue-tit makes its nest in a wall or a hole in a tree and lays about nine or ten pretty little spotted eggs.
And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
So it is with whoever lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
For Batty, helays it to nothin' whativver, but takes it like a philosopher an' a gintleman.
Some calls it luck, though most lays it to their own shupayrior merit.
They are confined to limited circles, and none has yet penetrated to any extent into the dense mass of superstition, idolatry and ignorance which lays its offerings at the altars of cruel and obscene gods.
Like many others of the princely families of India, he laysclaim to divine origin, the founder of his dynasty having been a god.
It provides and lays up a store of corn, nuts, &c.
It lays its eggs only at night, and at Bouru a bird was caught early one morning as it was coming out of its hole, in which several eggs were found.
The female lays from three to five large and beautifully shagreened green eggs upon a bed of leaves, the male and female sitting upon them alternately for about a month.
Whoever lays crafty stratagems for others, ought to beware that he himself be not entrapped by cunning.
There is no doubt that Plato often talks in that strain, but the method followed in his dialogues, and the general principles of methods which he laysdown here as well as elsewhere, point to a directly opposite conclusion.
He assigns to them no reason for the prohibition, but he lays upon them his absolute command, on the penalty of death if they are disobedient.
Old Krutchina answered: "I will not give you back the bread; but I will give you instead a duck, which lays a golden egg every day.
When you go to bed, and the servants bring you a number of lights, bid them take the lights all away, and order me to bring you a stone, which Prince Dardavan always lays on his table at night.
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Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words: lays down; lays hold
