Even before Isaiah's time such principles had been proclaimed by Amos and Hosea, but it was Isaiah, who both gave to them their loftiest expression, and applied them with the utmost detail and persistence to the practical politics of Judah.
We all know the scene, and how shabby and mean that mob of human remonstrances looks in face of the great Foe, majestic though inarticulate, that with sullen persistence carries off its prey.
With fatal persistence the luxury of every civilization has taken to drink; and of all the indictments brought by moralists against nations, that which they reserve for drunkenness is, as here, the most heavily weighted.
You think you have been making history; but God also works in history, and surely, to put it on the lowest ground, with as much cleverness and persistence as you do.
The persistence of material bodies is a condition precedent to the phenomenal manifestations in which our Experience arises.
Persistence and patience are indicated by brunette coloring and plodding by a well-developed and rather prominent jaw and chin.
It is quite another thing to have the energy, the courage, and the dogged persistence necessary to create that which is beautiful.
There are vocations for all who have the courage, the ambition, the willingness to work, the persistence to keep ever-lastingly at it.
This indicates less determination, less perseverance, less persistence in pushing against obstacles and difficulties.
Their persistence is a fact which challenges the mind.
Jewish apologists may explain that persistence on the ground that the Protocols feed the anti-Semitic temper, and therefore are preserved for that service.
Avice read: "An engagement that is rumoured with uncommon persistence will put society on the qui vive when it is definitely announced.
In this persistence he displayed courage worthy of a better reward.
There is a congenital form in which the sole is convex and the dorsum concave, the result of the persistence of an abnormal attitude of the fœtus in utero.
The image of his dead chief or comrade remains in his mind, and the savage's philosophic realism far surpasses that of the most extravagant mediaeval schoolmen; to him the persistence of the idea implies the persistence of the reality.
Because of the persistence of vision the eye blends these successive photographs into one apparently continuous motion.
This does not seem like a mere freak of curiosity, but their persistence in their investigations is precisely like that of birds that habitually make choice of such breeding-places.
Persistence in performance of a duty makes it a pleasure; an habitually exercised obligation is naturally agreeable.
The persistence with which the doctrine of the evils of indiscriminate charity has to be taught is sufficient evidence that the so-called other-regarding impulses require the same control by reason as do the "egoistic" ones.
It encourages fanaticism, moral crankiness, moral isolation or pride; obstinate persistence in a bad course in spite of its demonstrable evil results.
Again the persistence of the benches for many miles argues against a fault-scarp or slump-scar hypothesis.
The walls of the Puerto Rico Trench are formed by a series of extremely steep segments which show a remarkablepersistence along the trench.
The history of philosophy is due to the dogged persistence with which the philosopher has taken himself seriously and endured the poor opinion of the world.
He must recognize in philosophy a kind of reflection that differs only in extent and persistence from the reflection that guides and justifies his life.
The persistenceof the term cause, testifies to the fact that science is primarily concerned with the determination of events.
The persistence with which their wives fussed about Phil exasperated them, and their attacks upon their niece, open or veiled, always roused Amzi.
Fred worked hard at his studies because he had to; and even with persistence and industry he had not shone brilliantly in the scientific courses he had elected.
By the persistenceof a century in arms and diplomacy, the French had worn down the Spanish power, and France was now easily the strongest nation in Europe.
Geographical environment, through the persistence of its influence, acquires peculiar significance.
The bravery and persistence of Prudence Crandall in maintaining a school for colored girls in Connecticut, in the face of terrible persecution, is beyond praise.
Mrs. Southwick was born and educated in the Society of Friends, and to their calmness of demeanor she added their indomitable persistence in the path of duty.
Mr. Higginson, and a persistencein it, that a representative of the Women's State Society should be added to the Business Committee of one from each State; and this after the Committee was full.
By steady persistence the work was carried forward until the line of tall, leaning pickets was more than half-way round the camp.
He did not bow or bend; there was no persistence of request in his voice, or tone, or manner.
But after a little while, if he have in him at all any of the persistence or doggedness which is, and should be, a part of a man's nature, he will find the subject take possession of him to the almost entire exclusion of all else.
Evolution implies a real persistence of the past in the present, a duration which is, as it were, a hyphen, a connecting link.
The permanence of a sensible quality consists in this repetition of movements, as the persistence of life consists in a series of palpitations.
The extraordinary persistence of the papillary ridges on the inner surface of the hands throughout life has been a theme of discussion by the Royal Society,[596] and Mr. Galton has devised a method of indexing finger-marks.
The persistence of such a large section of it as that found in the adult Lepidosteus is, so far as we know, quite exceptional.
Persistence is here, as with so many other things in the world, the first and most important presupposition for success.
Yet whatever else may have been lacking in the giants of the race, the men who have been conspicuously successful have all had one characteristic in common--doggedness and persistence of purpose.
The power to hold on is characteristic of all men who have accomplished anything great; they may lack in some other particular, have many weaknesses or eccentricities, but the quality of persistence is never absent from a successful man.
It meant desperate and wearing effort on Wise's part, deep thinking and dogged persistence in forming and proving theories, that more likely than not would prove false.
Some people thought Mrs Varian a little affected mentally by her awful griefs, but those who knew her best read in her determination and persistence a steady aim and felt a slight hope of her success.
The fundamental biological importance of this delayed maturity seems to be emphasized by thepersistence for several years of immature plumages, so clearly identifiable that even a human observer can recognize the age of an individual.
Persistence of plants in unglaciated areas of boreal America.
