The flora of the Mountain of God yields an endless multiplicity of growths on its ascending slopes which pass through every climate.
The multiplicity of duties is melted into unity; and that unity, when it comes into act, unfolds into whatsoever things are lovely and of good report.
Sometimes I suspect that public pronouncements and suffrage manifestoes have had very much less to do with modern upheavals than these slumberous protests against the multiplicity of errands and the intricacies of the kitchen range.
Let us also modestly trust that the collection may deal with some "interesting occasions of life" and contain "thoughts on a [fair] multiplicity of subjects.
She went always voluminously clad in black or shot-silk gowns, their skirts so swelled out by a multiplicity of starched cambric petticoats, adorned with tambour-work, that she was credited with the existence of a crinoline.
That she softened to him in her weaker moments, in spite of his remembered appetite for savings and his regrettable multiplicity of wives, gave her the fair hump.
In him is found visibly together all the multiplicity of elements, which, under the name of mental faculties, are regarded as a universal inheritance of humanity.
The concert-season was drawing to a close and delay was hazardous; but delay there was, for Beethoven was vacillating, full of doubtings and suspicions, and there was a too great multiplicity of counsellors.
So also in his poems; a multiplicity of images pass before him and he yields himself to each in turn with absolute passivity.
It is true that the multiplicity of these incompetent efforts seems to many a compensation for their ill success, or even a ground for asserting their absolute superiority.
Perhaps no example can be given which more vividly illustrates the multiplicity and heterogeneity of the products that in course of time may arise by successive differentiations from a common stock.
In the multiplicity of languages the fact at once manifests itself, that word and thing do not necessarily coincide with one another completely, but that the word is a symbol.
Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
The Gnostic seers lost themselves in the contemplation of the simultaneous simplicity and multiplicity of these Mysteries.
That is to say, presumably, no one in the state of the multiplicity of the lower nature can behold the vision of unity.
The multiplicity of tongues, even within comparatively narrow areas, rendered the adoption of some sort of universal language absolutely necessary.
For the purport of the passage is to intimate, not the multiplicity of souls, but the distinction of the states of bondage and release.
For the same reason it is also possible to attribute to Brahman a multiplicity of abodes, as is done in the clause (quoted above) 'higher than all.
Nor must we imagine that the distinction of individual souls, which is implied in the preceding explanation, involves that reality of the multiplicity of souls which forms one of the tenets of other philosophical schools.
Multiplicity is organically wrought into its very being.
Apparently we are introduced to a universe that is a mere aggregate of an infinite multiplicity of realities, each independent of every other.
This is to say, empirical knowledge will become rational when it is possible to view any subject-matter as a unity, instead of a multiplicity of varied aspects.
Better than that, it had not been tied down and made helpless by the multiplicity of regulations hampering the few types of endeavor remaining nominally free of regimenting bureaucracy.
But in spite of the confusion caused by such a multiplicity of menials, I one day noticed an undergardener whose face was tantalizingly familiar.
The point for the moment is that even Whitman's truly poetic vision of the beautiful old women suffers a little from that bewildering multiplicity and recurrence that is indeed the whole theme of Whitman.
Main Street is Modern Street in its multiplicity of mildly half-educated people; and all these historic things are a thousand miles from them.
But are not these facts referable to comparative excitability and apathy, and also to the multiplicity and variety of female ideas compared with the dulness of the Moslem's apprehension.
He loves this pell-mell multiplicity and its strange music.
But in modern times a multiplicity of voluntary associations have sprung up and have spread from one community to another.
I have explained what in the configuration of the soil, the course of the rivers, the names of the tributary streams, and the multiplicity of the portages, may have given rise to the hypothesis of an inland sea in the centre of Guiana.
Lost in the variety, the multiplicity of minute details, the refinements of analysis and introspection, he would miss any leading indications.