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Example sentences for "more certain"

  • In so far as marriage has a natural sanction and foundation--than which nothing is more certain--we may therefore expect to discover that the interests of the individual and of the race are indeed one.

  • No fact is more certain or important, and that is precisely why we must study this instinct.

  • A greater reason is called for when the sin of the other person is more certain to follow.

  • First, on the part of its cause, and thus a thing which has a more certain cause, is itself more certain.

  • Likewise if these three be taken as gifts received in this present life, they are related to faith as to their principle which they presuppose: so that again, in this way, faith is more certain.

  • Nothing is more certain," answered the lady.

  • The jeweller assured them nothing was more certain, and that they need not think it strange, that persons of so distinguished a character should wish not to be known.

  • But nothing in the future is more certain, than that such emancipation would begin to work the degradation and final ruin of the slave race, from the day of its consummation.

  • There is not a more necessary, or more certain maxim, in the frame and constitution of society, than that every individual must contribute his share, in order to the well-being of the community.

  • Nothing is more certain, therefore, than that emancipation would inevitably place the Southern States in a similar position to that of Jamaica.

  • Nothing can be more certain as respects our knowledge of the material world.

  • Nay, but this word that is daily spoken to you, which passeth this sentence upon you all, is more certain: and this sentence of death must be executed, unless ye be under that blessed exception made here and elsewhere in the gospel.

  • But the employing and intrusting of all men promiscuously, according as is holden out in the public resolutions, is at best an uncertain mean of the preservation of the kingdom, and is a more certain mean of the destruction of religion.

  • That which is an uncertain mean of preservation of the kingdom, and a more certain mean of destruction of religion, is utterly unlawful.

  • One that is disagreeable by his deformity or folly is the object of our aversion, though nothing be more certain, than that he has not the least intention of displeasing us by these qualities.

  • For is it more certain, that two flat pieces of marble will unite together, than that two young savages of different sexes will copulate?

  • Yet nothing can be more certain, than that so small a difference would not be discernible in the passions, nor coued render them distinguishable from each other.

  • For nothing is more certain, than that despair has almost the same effect upon us with enjoyment, and that we are no sooner acquainted with the impossibility of satisfying any desire, than the desire itself vanishes.

  • To be more certain still, she next poisoned herself!

  • Afterwards, wishing to be more certain of their effects, she went round to the hospitals, and administered them to the sick poor in the soups which she brought in apparent charity.

  • It is probable that it was part of a concerted plan to draw the invaders onwards to more unfavourable ground, where their destruction might be more certain.

  • And nothing is more certain, than that you had been damned and undone for ever, if you had died before you had been renewed by the Holy Ghost; and that yet this will be your miserable portion, if you should die unsanctified.

  • Sidenote: Whether a man can be more certain that be believeth, than he is that thing believed is true?

  • And now indeed I prayed with a true sense of my condition, and a more certain hope, founded on the word of God.

  • But till that one hath some more certain mark, Poor human kind must wander in the dark; And suffer pain eternally below, For that, which here we cannot come to know.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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