Thus there is an apparent, but no real, contradiction in saying a poem may be but partially poetical; in some passages more so than in others; and sometimes not 25 poetical at all.
There are touching passagescharacteristic of Newman's writings which give them a peculiar charm.
And, on the other hand, let us observe how fully such general foretokenings are borne out, among 10 other passages of history, in the Vandalic conquest of Africa.
Now with this last passage into Europe we are not here concerned, for the Turks 5 have never introduced themselves to Europe by means of it;[33] but with those two southward passages which are Asiatic, viz.
How beautiful are these passages in the history of the chosen king of Israel!
Tasor told me where you were to be found, and as I have explored the greater part of the palace by means of the ulsio runways and the darker and less frequented passages I knew precisely where you were and how to reach you.
A perfect labyrinth of passages and apartments were now revealed to him as he hurried on through the deserted quarters of O-Mai.
Here was a labyrinth of passages and chambers presenting a thousand hiding-places.
Sir John read passages of a letter (which he did not put into Beckley's hand, as he did the other) from Lord Grenville, saying nearly the same things.
The end I led into the entrance of one of the many passages or tunnels which ran under the carved stones.
And then he raved in the madness that came upon him, and his voice rang horridly out of his cell and echoed shrilly through the hall and the passages about it.
For in at least two passages in the "Attributes of the Soul" (chs.
There are besides certain passages in the Bible which while having an acceptable meaning when taken literally, contain besides a deeper signification which the practiced eye can detect.
That God rules the world through them is evident from a number of passages in Bible and Talmud.
There are somepassages in the Bible which apparently lend color to the idea that a person's acts are determined from on high.
The discussion of the unity centered about the proper interpretation of the anthropomorphic passages in the Koran and the doctrine of the divine attributes.
Passages in the Talmudic and Midrashic literature which must be taken literally.
This is why Maimonides took pains to interpret all Biblical passages in which God is spoken of as if he were corporeal.
And it is this the Bible and the Rabbis had in mind in such passages as, "Hast thou found honey?
It is impossible here to enter into details, but it is proper briefly to point out his general method of treating the Biblical passages in question, and to state what these passages are.
True there are other passages in Scripture speaking of direct punishment, but they may be interpreted so as not to conflict with our conclusions.
Our sages, who were the disciples of the prophets, render the anthropomorphic passages in the Bible so as to avoid an objectionable understanding.
Since freedom is supported by reason, Scripture and tradition, the passages in the Bible which are in favor of it should be taken literally, and those against it should be interpreted figuratively.
That it is the view of religion is clear enough from the many passages in the Bible urging love of God.
Several passages in his history, in which he makes very definite statements about the tactics of the long-bow, prove that he, or his informant, understood military matters well.
Other passages also of the descriptions of the Wineland voyages present similarities with Brandan's voyage; and similar resemblances are found with other Irish legends, so many, in fact, that they cannot be explained as coincidences.
In both accounts they also live on herbs and wild fruits; but, in spite of that, these two passages cannot be derived from the same description.
This Greek is given as an authority in several passages of Pliny; he is also mentioned by Ptolemy, but is not otherwise known.
This may be concluded from the followingpassages in particular: Strabo says [i.
It was fantastic illusions of open polar seas and of passages to the riches of Cathay beyond the ice that drove men back there in spite of one failure after another; and little by little the polar regions were explored.
In very early life he became the intimate friend of Polybius, whose account of their first unreserved intercourse is one of the most delightful passages in all ancient literature;[772] and from Polybius he doubtless learnt to think.
The passages quoted from Livy for the practice in early times (i.
But Gellius goes on to quote three passages from old Latin authors in which Nerio (or Neria) appears positively as the wife of Mars; and again concludes that there was also a tradition that these two were coniuges.
The passages already referred to as doubtful evidence (Livy iii.
Graeco-Roman methods of fabricating myths about Roman divine names, for which he will do well to read the passages referred to by Wissowa in R.
A list of later passages in Livy will be found in Marq.
I have reprinted some passages from my Church of the Sixth Century, a book which is now out of print and not likely to be reissued.
There are passages again and again in its records which for weirdness and ferocity remind us of a grim story of Meinhold's.
Among the most striking passagesin the {26} chronicles of the age are the famous descriptions by Procopius and by Paul the Silentiary of the splendours of the great church of Constantinople in the sixth century after Christ.
The copies issued were as far as possible recalled and passages suppressed.
When the first series appeared in 1875 some passages caused extreme offence.
See Passagesfrom the Correspondence and Other Papers of Rufus W.
He had also got his brother William, when reading his classics, to mark down all the passages which touched upon law, public or private.
The example of Manzoni induced Grossi to write an historical novel entitled Marco Visconti (1834)--a work which containspassages of fine description and deep pathos.
He was ignorant of the rules of grammar, confused genders and cases, and wrote in the vernacular Latin of his time, apart from certain passages which are especially elaborated and filled with poetical and elegant expressions.
Notes and Conjectural Emendations of certain Doubtful Passages in Shakespeare's Plays.
Sample passages from a new translation of the Odyssey.
I've read it," said the judge, "and I think I recollect the passagesyou allude to.
He was fond of his niece, but he disliked her habit of readingpassages from her MSS.
This is said to be a temple, tho there are traces of vaults and passagesbeneath the pavement which do not quite harmonize with such a conjecture.
Walls and other buildings have furnished the necessary passages and rooms.
The few special passages bearing on this friendship are so characteristic of Immanuel's liberal-mindedness that a reproduction of them here may not be out of place.
But after the lapse of several days, when sitting one evening in the midst of my adherents and devotees, explaining to them some passages of the Bible in my own mysterious way, I suddenly burst into tears.
This substitution of inappropriate names rendered many passages obscure, and this is one of the chief reasons why the Talmud has been repeatedly condemned as an unintelligible and nonsensical production.
Biblical passages and phrases that had been misunderstood by various persons, who had come to ask him for his opinion.
But the student who closely examines the Old Testament passages relating to her domestic and social life, will soon see that this assumption is without foundation.
Thus, for instance, we gather from some passages occurring in the Machberoth (chap.
There are other similar passages in the Eben Bochan, in some of which the author ridicules, for instance, the way in which his fellow religionists were in the habit of celebrating the various feasts in the Jewish calendar.
If the character of a nation is reflected in its proverbs, the passages in the Bible relating to the worth of women prove the high estimation in which the Hebrew women were held by their husbands.
Naturally its humour differs materially from the broad, rich humour of Sterne, Cervantes, Voltaire or Heine, but it has a stamp of its own, which is in some respects akin to that found in certain passages of the ancient classics.
Other passages in the same book relating to musical instruments and to their use, are found in connexion with Laban, Miriam, and Jephthah.
I have not deciphered all the more difficult passages of the manuscript from which I took this example; but I have ascertained the meaning of all its simple characters, and your inference is certainly correct.
You must be aware that the lining of the upper air-passages arrests most of the impurities contained in the inhaled air before it comes into contact with the blood in the lungs themselves.
It is possible, no doubt, for modern playwrights to let themselves go in the matter of length, and then print their plays with brackets or other marks to show the "passages omitted in representation.
In several of Ibsen's very roughest drafts, we find short passages of dialogue sketched out even before the names have been assigned to the characters, showing that some of his earliest ideas came to him, as it were, ready dramatized.
It gives the verse-passages an air of pompous self-consciousness.
But almost all dramatists, I take it, jot down briefpassages of dialogue which they may or may not eventually work into the texture of their play.
Farther on are unintelligible allusions, and passages too vulgar for translation.
Anglo-Saxon charters, one published by Kemble in Codex Diplomaticus, the other by Thorpe in Diplomatarium Anglicum, in all which passages it more probably means peat than mineral coal.
Section 6, and especially the passages in Ritter s Erdkunde, vol.
Yet, there are passages in his history which evidence great defects.
A closer study of these two fundamental passages from Daniel's great prophecies will establish the fact that this promised Kingdom comes with the second coming of Christ.
Many more passages predicting and describing the Kingdom and its glories might be added.
Two other passages in Hebrews reveal some of the blessed details of the present priestly work of the Lord in our behalf.
There are passagesof Horace, too, in reading which the picture forms itself before the mind; and the poet supplies the very words which caricaturists usually employ to make their meaning more obvious.
The passages in the Gospels which relate the attempts made by Satan to tempt the Lord furnished congenial subjects to the illuminators of the Middle Ages, and they treated those subjects with their usual enormous crudity.
We may at least say that it is only in the passages aimed at them that the author is at his best.
Because not one of those passages which speak of the "First Day of the Week," records an event or transaction peculiar to the Sabbath.
Read carefully the followingpassages and their contexts.
This fact is so generally acknowledged by those acquainted with the history of the matter, that we need refer to only a few passages in proof.
These passages distinctly do away with the Sabbath, and place the observance of the Lord's day on the ground of human authority.
The writer, therefore, feels constrained to bring before his readers the passages on which that notion is predicated, to exhibit the weakness of their untenable position, and thereby establish the Sabbath of the Bible.
In both these passages reference is evidently had to the precepts of the Decalogue, as the essential and permanent rule of obedience for Christians.
Indeed, with this distinction between the Sabbath and a festival before us, it is easy to explain all those passages from early historians which refer to the first day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
