The pertinence and point of our Lord's declaration in Luke xvi.
The correctness of their reading, the pertinence of their replies, the general proofs of talent which they showed through all the exercises, evinced that they are none inferior to the children of their white oppressors.
What gives the material world a legitimate status and perpetual pertinence in human discourse is the conscious life it supports and carries in its own direction, as a ship carries its passengers or rather as a passion carries its hopes.
The pertinence of ideals binds them to nature, and it is only the worst and flimsiest ideals, the ideals of a sick soul, that elude nature's limits and belie her potentialities.
The moral life represented may actually have been lived through; but that circumstance is incidental merely and what makes the story worth telling is its pertinence to the political or emotional life of the present.
Henceforth things actual and things desired are confronted by an ideal which has bothpertinence and authority.
A work woven out of precious threads has a deep pertinence and glory; the artist who creates it does not need to surrender his practical and moral sense in order to indulge his imagination.
The reported acts and sentiments of early peoples lose their tragic dignity in our eyes when they lose their pertinence to our own aims.
Since the ideal has this perpetual pertinence to mortal struggles, he who lives in the ideal and leaves it expressed in society or in art enjoys a double immortality.
Every one of these sonnets contains simply the argument which is set forth with equal force and far superior pertinence in "Venus and Adonis.
This remark has no pertinence or meaning in Rosaline's mouth.
This point has its pertinence to literature, the more so since in that field nature reveals the greatest delicacy and cannot long endure what is lofty and excited.
But it may seem that this consideration has little pertinence to the epigram, which is brief and so in less need of variety.
It will, however, perhaps, repay that very careful reading of it, which will be necessary, in order to bring out its pertinence in this connection.
If any one tried, he would soon see the pertinence of the above remarks (b.
I do not perceive the meaning or pertinence of [Greek: a)sune/theian] in that sentence.
There are also other manoeuvres serving your purpose of concealment, and preventing the respondent from seeing beforehand the full pertinence of your questions.
What Hamilton here says, about Axioms, has little pertinence as a contribution to the Philosophy of Common Sense.
This distinction Aristotle disapproves, denying certainly its pertinence and almost its reality.
The latter qualify only spiritual persons, and have no pertinence elsewhere.
From this Mount of Vision we know that infinity and finiteness have no pertinence to modifications of consciousness, or in fact to any series.
But observe that both these laws alike are pertinent only to the Sense and Understanding, that they belong to things in nature, and consequently have no pertinence to the questions now before us.
The last part is a psychological blunder, has no pertinence to the question, and is not what Hamilton was groping for.
Commandin, especially, was much in request in England, where he was frequently reprinted, and Montucla calls him the model of commentators for the pertinence and sufficiency of his notes.
That is why he introduced the matter of his stripping and anointing and those ancient fables, not because there was any pertinence in them now, but in order to obscure by external noise his opponent's consummate skill and success.
What I have just been saying with regard to Roman Catholicism generally, in relation to economic doctrines and industrial progress, applies, of course, with a hundred fold pertinence to the case of Ireland.
And now it remains to show their actual universality, by exhibiting their place in the structure of the absolutely real; since nobody calls in question their pertinence to the world of phenomena.
I am conscious of the truth and pertinence of your remarks, but bear with me just a few moments while I give an illustration of what I mean.
Taking this view of the matter I see the pertinence of your position on this subject.
The dances of the northern region that are Spanish in type are of the Seguidillas family already described, and without special pertinence to the locality.
What pertinence to Ford's jealousy is there in the allusion to Queen Elizabeth's Sonnet?
What was said about cutting off the ends on injured roots, in the chapter on planting trees, applies with equal pertinence here.
It had great pertinence and value, at the time when he brought it forward, and with reference to the important reforms which he was seeking to accomplish in physical science.
The pertinence of these remarks will be better understood in the next chapter, when I come to recount the actual winding-up of the Peloponnesian war under the auspices of the worthless, but able, Lysander.
And after a little, when she had got into bed, I had, for a long time, by almost sitting on her to hold her hand, to prove that I recognized the pertinence of my return.
It was in any case over MY life, MY past, and MY friends alone that we could take anything like our ease--a state of affairs that led them sometimes without the least pertinence to break out into sociable reminders.
Thus Leibniz learned two of the great lessons of his life,--to seek always for clearness of diction and for pertinence and purpose of ideas.
Thomas Boston preached at a certain place with such pertinence and with such authority that it was complained of him by one of themselves that he 'terrified even the godly.
His preaching was with such pertinence that the one half of His hearers went home saying, Never man spake like this man, while the other half gnashed at Him with their teeth.
This critical remark, alike good tempered and reasonable, might be applied with still greater pertinence to the Kratylus of Plato.
But to understand what morality really is, to recognize its claims, is to understand also its application, its critical pertinence to art and religion, to all the great and permanent undertakings of men.
We have a wholly different ideal, which in order to interest us powerfully painting must illustrate--an ideal of more pertinence and appositeness to our own moods and manner of thought and feeling.
Instead of a landscape as a tapestry background to a Holy Family, and having no pertinencebut an artistic one, we have Corot's "Orpheus.
Its pertinence to a bibliography of bibliographies seems debatable to me.
He includes material of little pertinence to a bibliography of bibliographies.
Although he mentions a publisher's catalogue (which he has not seen), he seems doubtful about its pertinence to the task.
He has yielded to the temptation to include titles of nopertinence like treatises on systems of cataloguing (Nos.
And after a little, when she had got into bed, I had, for a long time, by almost sitting on her to hold her hand, to prove that I recognised the pertinence of my return.
It was in any case over my life, my past, and my friends alone that we could take anything like our ease--a state of affairs that led them sometimes without the least pertinence to break out into sociable reminders.
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