To love ONE greatly, means to love ALL more purely,--and to find heart-room and sympathy for the many sorrows and perplexities of those who are not as uplifted as ourselves.
There is undoubtedly a pleasure in analysing the perplexities of one's own mind.
Involved as were the circumstances in which he habitually found himself entangled, the present complication was certainly not inferior to any of the perplexities which he had hitherto experienced.
He lived in a labyrinth of plans, and he rejoiced to involve some one in theperplexities which his magic touch could alone unravel.
Manifold perplexities arise, and faltering through these the pupil acquires a halting use of the musical vocabulary, with other bad habits equally hard to correct.
Each country, we might almost say, over and above theperplexities that trouble mankind in general, has its own special difficulties which are entirely unknown to those who dwell outside its frontiers.
These, and such as these, are the perplexities of our time, to the resolution of which the labours of Krochmal and of a noble band of scholars have been directed in this century.
But it is just these solutions that open up new difficulties and perplexities which did not exist for the generation of the great Spanish philosopher.
Nothing appeared to promise him any effective liberation from his perplexities but a marriage with Miss Sampson.
Very soon, however, as we have seen, did he feel the inconveniences and perplexitiesof his situation; and every day those inconveniences and perplexities grew more troublesome and annoying.
To encourage me in myperplexities and conflicts, Brother Martin unfolded to me what his own had been.
She always understood me, helped me to understand myself; did not laugh at my perplexities as childish, did not think my over-eagerness was always heat of temper, but met my blundering efforts to do right.
But I begin to understand it now, especially since I have been staying at Wittemberg with Aunt Else, and she has told me about the perplexities of her childhood and early youth.
I could no more discover a track out of my miserable perplexities than out of the forest.
And to these perplexities we can neither of us find any answer.
What is the use of unfolding perplexities to each other, which it seems no intellect on earth can solve?
Grief over her death brought out all at once the latent doubts, hesitations, and strange perplexities of William Douglas's peculiar mind--perplexities which might have lain dormant in a happier life.
This is, I consider, one of the deepest trials to which we are liable; its perplexities are so great and numerous, its mortifications and humiliations so abounding, and its sorrows so deep.
These perplexitieswere not confined to protestant theology.
Bayle is admirable in exposing the fallacies of dogmatism, the perplexities of philosophy, the weaknesses of those who affect to guide the opinions of mankind.
The idea of seeking a remedy for the perplexities of theology in judicial rulings, and the rage for having recourse to law courts, are of recent date in our controversies.
But no sooner was she free to begin her ordinary life than new perplexities beset her on every side.
In the United States the persons who engage in the perplexities of political life are individuals of very moderate pretensions.
Compared to the supreme case of conscience indicated here, and it haunted Mr. Gladstone for nearly all his life, the perplexities of party could be but secondary.
The article was meant for the Quarterly Review, and it is easy to imagine the dire perplexities of Lockhart's editorial mind in times so fervid and so distracted.
These perplexities lasted down to 1859, and they constitute a vital chapter in Mr. Gladstone's political story.
Then there were all sorts of anxieties and perplexities about the dress.
But all this was not of the least effect with a hot temper amid the trials and perplexities of life in the Boy's Town.
Richard came to the common-sense conclusion to lay the complete story of hisperplexities before Inspector Val.
Richard pondered the several perplexities of the case.
When he found her, he stood stock-still, unable to speak one word of all that tide of talk which would be necessary to bring before her his dangerous perplexities and the one manner of their possible relief.
It is like coming home from a long voyage: a man reflects with pleasure on the many difficulties and perplexities he has passed through, sets his heart at ease, and enjoys himself with more satisfaction for the future.
That is, suffer me to serve you in your own kind, and I warrant it shall conduct you through as many perplexities and contradictions, to the very same state of scepticism that I myself am in at present.
Locke (who is probably here in Berkeley's eye) attributes the perplexities of philosophy to our narrow faculties, which are meant to regulate our lives, not to remove all mysteries.
And the key to all these perplexities had now to be wrung from the unwilling hands of Carlos.
Amongst the many sincere and anxious inquirers who were troubled with perplexities concerning the relations of the old faith and the new, were some who turned to him, with an instinctive feeling that he could help them.
With the willing consent of Carlos, his new friend laid their common desires and perplexities before God.
He shared that belief which some people have not yet abandoned, that the answer to all our perplexities is to be found in some of the mysteries of German metaphysics.
Hideous as the performance appears when coolly stated, it must be admitted that the ladies have got into such terrible perplexities from tampering with the seventh commandment, that there is some excuse for their breaking the fifth.
The grave, elaborate detail of the perplexities of his childish imagination is pleasant, and at the same time pathetic.
In brief, thanks to the perplexities and hesitations of the Western Powers and the ill-humour manifested by Germany and Russia, Europe was helpless, and the Arabi party felt that they had the game in their own hands.
We will now look at the perplexities of the English and Continental currencies.
One of the perplexities of travel in wild countries is the passage of rivers.
His mystification had, as before, driven him into perplexities upon which he had never calculated.
And yet it must be at least modified, for we have already reached one of those perplexities which force a biographer of Pope to be constantly looking to his footsteps.
In any event, I am clear that the present perplexities and embarrassments of the Secretary of the Treasury ought not to be augmented by devolving upon him the execution of a law so uncertain and confused.
The obligations upon which this gold has been drawn from the Treasury are still outstanding and are available for use in repeating the exhausting operation with shorter intervals as our perplexities accumulate.
In this terrible business of being a woman so full of fine shades, of delicate perplexities (and very small rewards) you can never know what rough work you may have to do, at any moment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perplexities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
