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Example sentences for "our times"

  • His Ugliness is not the Case, tho' ugly as the Devil, is a Proverb in his Favour; but vanishing out of sight is an Essential to a Spirit, and to an evil Spirit in our Times especially.

  • This classification of the human faculties, save some differences more nominal than real, is now generally adopted, and makes the foundation of the psychology of our times.

  • Such is the principle to which we have been conducted by two years of study upon modern philosophy, from Descartes to our times.

  • And we may thus apply it to the profane ones of our times, who in their rage and envy have little else in their youths but a sentence against their neighbour for and to evil unjustly.

  • Long and dreary was the march of the people to complete political enfranchisement from the rebellion under Wat Tyler to the passage of the Reform Bill in our times.

  • But if oppressed, they always are free with their tongues; they give good advice, and do not spare reproaches in language which in our times we should not call particularly choice.

  • In our times such a man would not be selected as a travelling companion, or a man at whose house we would wish to keep the Christmas holidays.

  • They need to be expurgated by an unceasing criticism; yet in bulk the forces I have mentioned, and many others less important, carry with them the creative powers of our times.

  • But in this case, the Commission is not representative of the dominant thought of our times.

  • I do not wish to suggest too much unanimity in the hundreds of artists and thinkers that are making the thought of our times.

  • Our times are in thy hand, and thou Wilt guide our footsteps at thy will: Lord, to thy purposes we bow, Do thou thy purposes fulfil!

  • In our times, also, the use of fulminate has assured fire under all conditions.

  • Thus in our times we can admire, under the same conditions of danger, emotion and anguish, the calmness of the English, the dash of the French, and that inertia of the Russians which is called tenacity.

  • In progressing from the savage to our times we shall get a better grasp of life.

  • And this variety of observance has not originated in our times, but long before, in the days of our ancestors.

  • For they are a very bad example and unworthy of our times.

  • The philosophic spirit has turned the thoughts of many of the historians of our times in this direction; but I doubt whether truth has profited by their labours.

  • The science of our times is another matter; study and observation are things of the past; we dream and the dreams of a bad night are given to us as philosophy.

  • Other writers, led away by Darwinian dogmas, fancied that they had discovered populations which had, as it were, remained in a former animal condition for the instruction of our times.

  • It is the softest, sweetest voice yet given to that gospel of false charity which is the fashion of our times.

  • There are many indications in this direction in our times.

  • Civilization, world conquest, commercial extension and a universal peace, seem to be the leading thoughts among the nations of our times.

  • This party spirit, this miserable craving for the good things that may be extracted from the service of a party, has produced the crying evil of our times.

  • In our times there is much talk of civilization and culture.

  • The glorious days that it would be imperishable honour to win, I do not expect to be brought about in our times.

  • He is certainly not one of your dainty lords, who take the eyes of ladies at a tournament; but at the present day we have not a doughtier knight: he is the greatest sea-hero of our times, and may soon expect to be elevated to a jarl.

  • Whatever is worth being preserved is remembered well enough without writing chronicles and singing songs about it; and in our times, people should have something better to think of than such trifles and old stories.


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