If he had told her naturally and simply on the evening of his return from London--before anything material intervened--everything would have been different, everything would have been simpler.
The Buddhists made the Lord Buddha the leader of men out of the futility and confusion of material existence to the great peace beyond.
As long as it is held to be infallible truth, every creed in Christendom can find abundant material in it to prove every point it claims.
And as to these responsibilities, it is not material whether man is immortal or not.
The truth concerning the universe, the laws of nature in the material world are thus just as divine, as are the moral laws governing man in his social relations, or those governing his relations to God.
While this change in church relations involved quite a radical change in matters of ecclesiastical organization and polity, it must be kept in mind that it did not involve any material change in matters of fundamental theology.
But his material resources represented in his squandered fortune, and the time he lost while squandering it, were lost forever!
It has undertaken to create in the world a moral force capable of controlling and humanizing material forces.
Material force and moral force, all that sustains her will end by failing her because she lives on provisions garnered once for all, because she wastes them and will not know how to renew them.
A contract may be made between two persons solely for material advantages on each side; but the moral advantage is still generally supposed to lie with the person who keeps the contract.
Everything has been said about her material resources.
That we have nothing material to gain, no colonies which we covet, no possessions of any sort that we desire, is the final proof that the war has not been provoked by us.
But it is not merely a question ofmaterial force, of visible force.
I would go any length to avoid war for material interests, war that involved no principles, distrusting profoundly the common meaning of the phrase "national honor.
Our factories for clothing and material of all sorts should be working day and night.
We might thus be inclined to infer that, owing to the high temperature, the chemistry of the material undergoing transformation in Phlæas is changed in such a manner that less red and more black pigment is produced.
According to our view both depend upon that co-operation of the same material physical forces which admits of being briefly summarized as the reaction of organized living matter to influences of the environment.
There is not much material as yet for an estimate of the military virtue of the race, but according to all precedent they should prove good men in a scrap.
The subaltern's description of Teku Singh at home reminded me of the hero of the "Bride of Lammermuir," that classic and lovable example of the impoverished aristocrat, whose material poverty is balanced by more honourable possessions.
Some are old friends; others are unknown to me by name; many are unaware that they have contributed material for these sketches; and I can only thank them collectively for their help.
That neither material expediency, love of honour, nor the glamour of an ideal has turned him aside from the immemorial path of his ancestors presupposes a certain stolidity, in which one is not disappointed when one knows the man.
The skins of the drums had cracked in the heat at Makina, and they had left them behind, but they make flutes out of any material they can pick up.
The others wore vests of wool, which (apart from the loin cloth) is the one and only material that Brahmans may wear at meals.
Notwithstanding the material change, which our revolution has wrought in their old systems, which is felt somehow by all the politicians of Europe, yet they seem some of them not to be sufficiently acquainted with the real nature of it.
I find that he has been too hasty in his opinion, and that the death of the Marquis of Rockingham has made a very material alteration in the system.
Nothing material having since occurred, I only write to enclose the annexed resolutions of Congress, on the subject of your powers for negotiating.
I shall not fail to do myself the honor to transmit to your Excellency the answer I may receive to the enclosed, and a particular account of every material circumstance, which may take place here before my departure.
The busy hum of industry now echoes from the shores, where pine-logs are being sawed into material for making houses, not only in Florida, but in Boston and other Northern cities.
Our days here pass in peaceful quietude, the time moving on with imperceptible speed; but the daily records would not fill a page in history, or supply material for a romance.
However, unfortunately, the material they had enlisted to found a Reformed Church on foreign shores was mixed with dross--men without character or principle, whose vices were not improved by transplanting.
Its extreme age, together with the durability of material employed, would be a subject of more interest to ancient architects, could they return, than to any of the present generation.
It was built of coquina and concrete, with a tile floor, much of the material used being brought from Cuba, and of the most durable quality.
Was it not the mammoth megatherium that furnished the aborigines with material for pointing their spears and manufacturing their bone implements, the remains of which are now frequently found beneath the tumuli of Florida?
A very newsy weekly is published in Valadosta, the editor being the author of the Okafinokee Swamp Expedition, which trip has furnished him withmaterial to fill out many an interesting column in his inimitable paper.
This town boasts a very substantially-built market-house, the material used being brick.
My real protest is for liberty both to mind and body, and against coercion of any kind, material or spiritual.
As to the disputed matter of Protection, I am for Free Trade so far only as regards the matter of provisions; but I desire Fair Trade on the reciprocity system where manufactured articles and their raw material are concerned.
Indeed, it is a remarkable fact that while every province in Turkey has been steadily retrograding during the last few years, Palestine alone has been rapidly developing in agricultural and material prosperity.
Whether this security extends to the demands of the tax-gatherer, and how far it has conduced to their ownmaterial welfare and happiness, is quite another question.
But the whole subject is encompassed with mystery, and affords material for endless conjecture.
Still, the site of ancient Ephesus affords abundant material for conjecture, and the more one studies the local topography the more difficult is it to picture to one's self what the ancient city was like.
Pliny tells us that glass was first made by the ancients from the sands of this river, and the numerous specimens of old glass which I found in grubbing bear testimony to the extensive usage of this material in the neighbourhood.
The niches are most elaborate, and remain as sharp as when they were cut in the hard material used.
No difficulty had they in finding material wherewith to build their houses, their large cattle vaults, and enclosing yards.
They themselves, the real self and spirit of them, no material force can hurt, for that belongs to a higher kingdom than the visible, and its true goal and home are not here at all.
He has conquered before, and the thrill of victory over material discouragements may be his again.
There is, for example, the question of material goods.
And the man who has these, as Paul had them, can honestly say that it is of relatively small moment whether he is in a material sense, rich or poor.
We may be slow to admit such a low and materialcause for effects so apparently spiritual.
She looked from the wild-eyed, tear- stained face to the miscellaneous pile of material on the table, and the unwinking gaze of the store detectives.
Suddenly the thought came to her that the blackmailers might give her husband material that would look very black if a suit for divorce came up in court.
I think you are a material witness in the Stacy case, anyhow.
Laura had a right to only ideal sentiments ideal relations; the poet was at liberty to carry more material preferences elsewhere.
Material has an extraordinary effect upon form; colour, though not a positive element in sculpture, has immense negative power in accentuating or obliterating the mere line.
As the other lamps were exploded by the heat new inflammable material was thrown about.
I couldn't keep my mind on one thing long enough to write a story, but I have collected the material for one, and now that I am happy once more, when we have settled down, I am going to write it.
Quincy passed the morning at the grocery, making arrangements for the establishment of the branch stores, Mr. Strout's plans being approved with some material modifications.
It will readily appear that the subject might furnish material for a notable volume.
In recent years, the men bring the material in on wagons without demonstration.
He may and does often call upon the sun, promising gifts of property or even scalps and may promise to furnish the material support for a wife, mother, sister, or in fact any woman who will come forward to perform the ceremony.
Upon comparing this rare edition with those of a later date, no material alterations occur, excepting that the spelling is modernized, and the title abridged.
Papyrus was also used, but none of this fragile materialhas been preserved.
Rose Terry Cooke, in her short stories, has presented many striking studies of New England life and character; and Sarah Orne Jewett deals with the same material in a manner both strong and refined.
His "Essay on the Understanding" contains the germ of utter skepticism and was the ground on which Berkeley denied the existence of the material world, and Hume involved all human knowledge in doubt.
The one worked up from beneath by material processes, the other worked down from above by intellectual ones.
The entire peninsula was subject to French influence, which, though beneficial to its material progress, could not fail to be detrimental to national literature.
It aims to assimilate the character of man to light, to dissipate the darkness of ignorance; it acknowledges Ormuzd as the ruler of the universe; it seeks to extend the triumph of virtue over the material and spiritual world.
He afterwards passed into the service of several of the princes of Europe, to whom he acted as secretary and poet, always gleaning material for historic record.
Muspelheim, or Flameland, and Nifelheim or Mistland, lay without the organized universe, and were the materialregions of light and darkness, the antagonism of which had produced the universe with its gods and men.
For the rest, we are forced to acknowledge that the Aztecs had developed their civilization, in its political and material aspects, in a way that does the greatest credit to their sagacity.
There is reason to believe, however, that this civilization, resembling in some respects that of ancient Canaan, had more refinement in its pursuit of material comfort than vigour in its morality.
The cultivation of maize was to this region what that of wheat was to Egypt and Mesopotamia, or of rice to India and China, the material condition, namely, of a precocious civilization.
The most remarkable results of the rule of the Incas are seen in the material well-being which they secured to their people.
Grinnell has the best material she's ever had and the regulars are so good that even good substitutes don't have the chance they might have.
Eccentricity was expected of a man who had been in the habit of accomplishing such astounding results with raw human material and a football.
Greene and I feel that this young man should be held as a material witness.
What I have obtained has been of very material benefit to me.
Therefore, a detailed description of the organization, operation and management of the principal security and raw material markets of the world is of inestimable value.
While pondering upon these things, sensation vacates its office, and imagination rules in the ascendant; material images fade away.
God beholds our minds and understandings, bare and naked from thesematerial vessels, and outsides, and all earthly dross.
They were large and hotly contested battles, with heavy losses on both sides, but without material effect.
The exalted maxim of human equality was interpreted to mean that all Americans could be rich; and the spectacle was presented of a mighty and generous nation fighting one another for mere material wealth.
The spirit, for the sake of which the body exists, more and more dominates its material basis, until at last the latter practically vanishes "in the light of its meaning sublime.
Material prosperity began to show itself in the new country, now that the first metaphysical problems were in the way of settlement.
Nothing less iron than was their self-restraint could have provided material stanch enough to build up the framework of our nation.
Spain thought only of material and theological aggrandizements: of getting gold, and converting heathen, to her own temporal and spiritual glory; and she was as ready to shed innocent blood in the latter cause as in the former.
The gifts of the soul are free; butmaterial benefits are captivity.
During the reign of the last three kings, Norway had, owing to the peace, steadily advanced in material prosperity.
The material was therefore at hand for continued rebellion, and as long as the supply of pretenders showed no signs of giving out, there was every prospect that the king would have his hands full.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "material" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
