Hose and MacDougall, The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, contains some very interesting parallelisms between the culture of modern Borneo and the prehistoric culture of southern Europe.
His life has some interesting parallelisms with that of some of the more political of the Greek philosophers of the fifth and fourth.
It is possible that similar allusions to actual bodily illness are to be found in another psalm, probably referring to the same period, and presenting striking parallelisms of expression (Ps.
There is a general similarity of tone in them all, as well as considerable parallelisms of expression, favourite phrases and metaphors, which are favourable to the hypothesis of a nearly cotemporaneous date.
At the time, I was reading both Browning and Spencer, and could not but be impressed by the parallelisms in thought between the two, especially those in this seer-like passage and "The Data of Ethics.
Inquirers have been content to point out the parallelisms to be found in the various folk-tale collections, and of course these parallelisms have bred and mustered with the growth of the collections.
I believe Lowell's parallelisms to be no more than curious accidents--proofs of consanguinity of spirit, not of any indebtedness on Shakespeare's part.
Nothing at all is deducible from the vague parallelisms that have been adduced between the earl's character and position in life and those with which the poet credited the youth of the sonnets.
There are a few parallelisms with Daniel's 'Complainte of Rosamond,' published in 1592, and it is probable that Shakespeare completed the piece in that year.
A sensible friend of my own was staggered, if not converted, by the parallelismsadduced in Judge Webb's chapter 'Of Bacon as a Man of Science.
I told him that the parallelisms were Elizabethan commonplaces, and were not peculiar to Bacon and Shakespeare.
To this end, he divided each of the gospels into sections the length of which was very various, being wholly determined by the parallelisms of the other gospels.
There areparallelisms in history which are very striking, and yet these parallelisms can be easily explained.
Collins, reviewed by the Dean of Armagh in the January number of the Bookman, where a number of such parallelisms are quoted which seem to me rather dubious.
In the first class he includes much of the Bible, especially where the parallelisms are present, Anglo Saxon poetry, Ossian, Blake's Prophetic Books and Walt Whitman.
Yet we cannot deny the fact that parallelisms occur in the Bible with such frequency as almost to have become a pattern of Hebrew poetry.
There are passages employing parallelisms that are not poetry, while many poems exist in which these are not used.
Moulton has given an excellent study of the parallelism of the Bible, but he admits that parallelisms of clause are also prose devices.
We have seen that critics find in the hymns of the Egyptians and Babylonians the irregular rhythm and parallelisms of the Psalms, in short, impassioned rhythmical prose.
And one must add that parallelisms are not the fundamental features of poetry.
All this merely proves that parallelisms were no doubt anciently used to differentiate prose literature conveying emotions from prose literature barren of feeling.
Bishop Lowth, in his Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews, delivered at Oxford in the middle of the eighteenth century, no doubt performed great service in calling attention to the parallelisms of Hebrew poetry.
But mere arrangement in couplets and close parallelisms seems insufficient to prove the presence of responses, for in a hymn to Nebo (Nebo No.
Parallelisms between a Society and an Individual Organism.
Spencer indicated four chief parallelisms between a society and an individual organism:-- (1) Starting as small aggregates both grow in size.
The rest of the parallelisms in Clement's Epistle are for the most part with Clement of Alexandria, who had evidently made a careful study of his predecessor.
We shall find here parallelisms equally striking with those already detailed.
These parallelisms in the evolutions and structures of the circulating systems, introduce us to others in the kinds and rates of the movements going on through them.
We shall find in the developments of these appliances parallelisms not less remarkable than those above set forth.
Now these parallelisms are inexplicable by the theory of final causes.
The untenableness of the particular parallelisms above instanced, is no ground for denying an essential parallelism; since early ideas are usually but vague adumbrations of the truth.
Among parallelisms of thought of a less direct kind, one may be traced between an utterance of Hamlet's and a number of Montaigne's sayings on the power of imagination and the possible equivalence of dream life and waking life.
The parallelisms of the Lesser Hippias, as already remarked, are not of the kind which necessarily imply that the dialogue is the work of a forger.
In the most striking examples, however, where there has been no actual influence at work, these parallelisms are apt to be very misleading.
Christian parallelisms in Plotinos have a historical origin in Christian parallelisms in his sources, namely, Stoicism, Numenius and Plato.
The closest parallelisms are noticeable, the technique so admirable that the scherzo floats in mid-air--Flaubert's ideal of a miraculous style.
Chopin's acoustic parallelisms are not so concrete, so vivid as Wagner's.
We shall find in the development of these appliances, parallelisms not less remarkable than those above set forth.
We shall find here, parallelisms equally striking with those already detailed.
Since Mr. Edmundson's book is out of print, we have been asked to give a list of his parallelismsbetween the "Lucifer" and Milton.
Flood and Flame Parallelismsbetween Vondel and Milton The Critical Cult The American Press From Signed Reviews The London Press Letter from the Board of the Queen Wilhelmina Lectureship, Columbia University Illustrations.
Mr. Edmundson also discovered many wonderful coincidences and innumerable parallelisms in phrase and in imagery.
But after half a dozen, a dozen, a score, of similar parallelisms the odds against chance and in favor of design become so overwhelming that the least mathematically minded of men will reject the former hypothesis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parallelisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
