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Example sentences for "past events"

  • A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.

  • The bowels of the earth, says he, have carefully preserved the memorials of past events, and this truth the marine productions so frequent in the hills attest.

  • This is not the way in which men reason on the ordinary affairs of life; and it is difficult to see why they should reason thus respecting the history of past events.

  • These differences are of such immense importance, that, until their laws are known, we cannot be said to understand the real history of past events.

  • It requires but a hasty glance at past events, to prove the immense power of these two great physical conditions.

  • True memory, which we must now endeavour to understand, consists of knowledge of past events, but not of all such knowledge.

  • And there is nothing more wonderful, or miraculous, in the Akashic Records of Past Events, than there is in the Memory Record of Past Events!

  • We may best be helped to a comprehension of clairvoyance as related to past events, by considering in the first instance the phenomena of memory.

  • The faculty of reading the pages of a closed book, or of discerning objects blindfold, or at a distance from the observer, is quite a different faculty from that employed on the cognition of past events.

  • The present is largely determined by past events.

  • Do you like to talk about personal problem solving, about your feelings, past events, and why you have come to feel as you do?

  • We are all inheritors of a tenacious past: the influences of past events have a certain power over us, and we must either resign ourselves to being controlled by the past or fight its influence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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