We can perhaps finally conceive with fair accuracy the subordination of Greek culture and politics to superstition by likening the thought-levels of pre-Alexandrian Athens to those of England under Cromwell.
For more than twenty years was I bound with thee on a hideous gridiron," she writes, likening her anguish to that of St. Lawrence.
Burke's wild likening of Rivarol's journalism to the Annals of Tacitus.
Therefore likening God to man is not so degrading as likening Him to mere natural forces.
The likening the visage of the owl to the dirty face of an old abbess is capital, and the likening the cry to the noise of the rhugylgroen is anything but unfortunate.
Caine's likening them to "international exhibitions a week before their opening" will strike many visitors as very apposite.
For the deepest reaches of human thought, the process of man-likening has thus given way to the process of mind-likening.
It is true that the psychomorphism of scientific monism is reached by a process different from that which has culminated in the mind-likening of theological pantheism.
Jefferson had a most delightful manner of satisfying his conscience and adjusting himself to the inevitable by likening national to individual actions.
Pan, meeting her one day, wooed her with many compliments, likening her to Diana of the silver bow.
But before I can explain to you my views you have already changed your own, and are likening the philosopher to an old tom-cat that seems to be weak in his head.
I scribbled a few lines, likening the scattered clouds to brides blushing at the approach of the bridegroom.
The apostle islikening the running and wrestling of the Olympic games to the Christian warfare, and throws in the pregnant reminder that he who is training for race or fight must, as he says elsewhere, "Keep his body under.
The likening the visage of the owl to the dirty face of an old abbess is capital, and the likening the cry to the noise of the Rhugylgroen is anything but unfortunate.
And in these, likeningthe wise man to the Giant, the foole to the Dwarfe.
Againe in these likening a wise man to the true louer.
And in this other likening the forlorne louer to a striken deer.
Now, instead of likening the organism as a whole to a steam-engine, it is more satisfactory to liken each cell to a gas-engine.
The likening of one to Satan does not always exclude meditation upon him.
But we have set forth the theoretical reasons which prevent us from likening the living being, a system closed off by nature, to the systems which our science isolates.
It was the suppression of all efficient duration, the likening of the universe to a thing given, which a superhuman intelligence would embrace at once in a moment or in eternity.
For Moses taught that the Egyptians were not right in likening the nature of God to beasts and cattle, nor yet the Africans or even the Greeks, in fashioning their gods in the form of men.
What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them best; though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein.
Therefore, to put forward divine truths by likening them to corporeal things does not befit this science.
Hence for a divine person to be sent to anyone by grace, there must needs be a likening of the soul to the divine person Who is sent, by some gift of grace.
He made the retrograde step of likening the head of insects to a single segment.
It does not need the subsequent likening of the hind wings of insects to the air bladder of fish, and of the stigmata to the pores of the lateral line, to convince one finally of the fancifulness of the whole comparison.
Laughing merrily Hugh held her off at a little distance, likening her to a mermaid fresh from the sea, and succeeding at last in quieting her down until she could give a more concise account of the catastrophe.
Even her hair did not curl as well as usual, though Mug, who had dried her tears and come back to Alice's room, admired her so much, likening her to the apple blossoms which grew in the lower orchard.
