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Example sentences for "obscurities"

Lexicographically close words:
obscurely; obscurer; obscures; obscurest; obscuring; obscurity; obscurus; obsequies; obsequio; obsequious
  1. The results obtained with the response of plants to stimulus may perhaps throw some light on the obscurities that surround the subject.

  2. The obscurities of the Chronicles render the questions connected with Ahpula’s death exceedingly difficult.

  3. Two obscurities must be cleared up before trying to fill out the series.

  4. The difficulty was to clear up the many obscurities which remained, and Mr. Croker was anxious to furnish his share of explanation, though he was convinced that numerous contemporary allusions would always baffle curiosity.

  5. And these elucidators of speculative obscurities formed a sect under the lower Platonists.

  6. The fons et origo of all the confusions and obscurities of this section are thus traceable to Kant's attitude towards formal logic.

  7. The obscurities of his argument are not to be excused on the ground that "the difficulty, how a subject can have an internal intuition of itself, is common to every theory.

  8. They have not to press through obscurities to find Him, but the desire to possess must precede possession in spiritual matters.

  9. I am not competent to say how far it may serve to throw any light upon the obscurities of the case.

  10. It is not our purpose to remove obscurities by additions or omissions, and therefore we leave the passage as in the original, excepting a slight alteration in the punctuation.

  11. The lives of literary men are generally passed in the obscurities of the closet, which conceal even from friendly inquiries the artifices of study, whereby each may have risen to eminence.

  12. Through all obscurities and confusions we can reach that Indian Prince for whom the sight of human misery embittered his own brilliant and enjoyable life.

  13. Obscurities not inherent in the matter, obscurities due not to the thing but to the wording, are a botch, and are not worth preserving in a translation.

  14. It constitutes one of those profound obscurities from which, it is admitted, theology has not been able to extricate itself, and come out into the clear light of the divine glory.

  15. We might offer strictures upon other passages of the solution under consideration; but as the same error runs through all of them, the reader may easily unravel its remaining obscurities and embarrassments for himself.

  16. Instead of following the guidance of this truth, he wanders amid the obscurities of the subject, becomes involved in numerous self-contradictions, and is misled by the deceitful light of false analogies.

  17. There are doubts and obscurities which every one feels, and these questionings are often stirred into activity by the mistaken efforts of the defenders of the faith.

  18. May the spirit of him in whose life is our light, enlighten the lives which have gathered here, and lead them through all the obscurities of life, and brighten more and more before them into a perfect day.

  19. Whereby we pervert the profound and mysterious knowledge of AEgypt; containing the Arcana's of Greek Antiquities, the Key of many obscurities and ancient learning extant.

  20. The size and the many obscurities of the Book of Isaiah have limited the common use of it in the English tongue to single conspicuous passages, the very brilliance of which has cast their context and original circumstance into deeper shade.

  21. We saw that the obscurities and inconsistencies of chapters ii.

  22. Our opinions must not be final or dogmatic about this matter of authorship; the obscurities are not nearly cleared up.

  23. In the common version the dramatic element is almost entirely lost, the paragraphs are imperfectly noted, and obscurities not a few the inevitable consequence.

  24. The distinction which we have just made will enable us to judge of the works of St. Paul, and explain the obscurities which we find in them, as well as the continual variations, which we must remark in his principles.


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