In fact, he would never have ventured to the churchyard at midnight had he not been moved by one of the strongest passions of our nature.
As the speech received the sympathy of friends, so it aroused all the bad passions on the side of Slavery.
He has besides his passions shrewd sense; and his passions may be rightly directed by benevolent attraction.
He wrote music to the Passions of Matthew, Luke and John for the Court of Dresden, where he was Capellmeister.
The Passionsin Vopelius' Gesangbuch, 1682, show that the early forms were still in use at that date.
It is not known for certain how many Passions Bach wrote; the number is said to be five.
We only beseech the Virgin, or St. John, to do that for us, which you get a man of like passions and frailties with yourself to do for you.
No one ever dared openly to thwart his will or oppose his wishes, although he could be led through his passions and his vanity: he was imperious in his commands, and exacting in the services he demanded from all who surrounded his person.
They both represented the master passions of the people to whom they appealed.
There was no crime which was not imputed to them, even that of sacrificing little children; so that the passions of the people were aroused against them, and they were so maltreated that all security was at an end.
Now that by means of successive eliminations, he had arrived at solitude, he felt withdrawn from the passions of the living, but they stood out all the more to him in a kind of lucid intimacy.
And, by dint of screaming, this worthy man ended by feeling passions that he knew nothing of.
Those artists who sincerely profess their religious respect for all that lives, are less capable than anyone else of understanding the passions of war.
These poor wretches, ruthlessly torn from life, moved helplessly in the void, too feeble to cling to the passions of yesterday or dreams of tomorrow.
I was never one of those who compounded with the passions of jealous nationalities.
The theory which would lop off the strongest forces from life, and bend it before the passions of the multitude, would result in suppressing the advance-guard, and leaving the army without leaders.
Already Moreau discounted the calming down of passions and the return to common sense.
Such particular passions or appetites are, he goes on to say, "necessarily presupposed by the very idea of an interested pursuit; since the very idea of interest or happiness consists in this, that an appetite or affection enjoys its object.
It is this Delight in Revenge, that makes all barbarous Nations cruel; and the curbing such Passions is one of the happy Effects of being civilized.
Life had receded from us--what had we to do with its fever, its regrets, its passions and futile joys?
The fiercest passions are not so dangerous foes to the soul as the cold scepticism of the understanding.
Miss Baillie's plays on the passions hold a middle place.
Now it spoke through a man; and no personalities, or prejudices, or passions could be perceived to veil or disturb its silver sound.
That does not prevent me from being indulgent to others, because I am well aware that it is a part of our nature to be subject to passions and weakness, and to be led astray by them sometimes.
I will try to restrain my passions for that length of time, which I require in order to amass a tidy sum of money.
She, with the many others, was amongst those women who, bowing herself to the possessive passions of men, would sell her soul in slavery to share them if she could.
One and all, if their thoughts were known, I believe they know they have contributed long enough to the possessive passions of men.
It is said that the state of manners in modern society would not bear those bold appeals to the passions which abound in the ancient orators.
We are ingenious in taking to ourselves credit even for our inferiority, and it is contended that our understandings are more cultivated and our passions more under the dominion of reason.
Intemperance in our passions always is followed by unwelcome sensations, and sometimes with a sense of shame.
And who art thou that bringest discord and rough, angry passions into a scene like this?
The feelings and passions must be placed under the charge of moral principle, or we may expect an age of licentiousness to succeed one of authority and rigid discipline.
The command of God is the only mandate in the universe which can effectually restrain human passions and desires.
But these passions overblown, I hope her Majesty will have a gracious regard both towards myself and the cause.
But the passions seemed not likely to blow over so soon as was desirable.
And is not such a scene as this the spell, That lulls the restless passionsinto peace?
Is our league dissolv'd, and shall the holy cause For which embattled Europe is in arms, Be idly given to the scorn of men, To gratify our passions and vile feuds?
God grant that your desires and unmortified passions may not hinder you from that which hath been ordained for you.
He should cleanse his heart from all evil passions and corrupt desires, for the fear of God is the weapon that can render him victorious, the primary instrument whereby he can achieve his purpose.
We, verily, have commanded you to refuse the dictates of your evil passions and corrupt desires, and not to transgress the bounds which the Pen of the Most High hath fixed, for these are the breath of life unto all created things.
Verily I say: Incline your ears to My sweet voice, and sanctify yourselves from the defilement of your evil passions and corrupt desires.
Shield them, I entreat Thee, O my Lord, from the assaults of their evil passions and desires, and aid them to obtain the things that shall profit them in this present world and in the next.
The accuracy of Webster's report of his famous interview with Jefferson at Monticello in 1824 has been questioned, but if it is correct, this is what Jefferson said of Jackson: "His passions are terrible.
Laugh not at his hermit fashions Nor the book unwarmed by hope; Say not that it shows the passions Of a stony misanthrope.
Break Thou the spirit of the lords of lust, Whose passions scatter an infected dust; Reduce the men for whom the poor have bled, Who elevate their gold as God and Bread.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: affection; passion; sentiment; spirit; sympathy
