Good or Evil is nothing but pleasure or pain to us--or that which procures pleasure or pain to us.
The case is similar about pains: you call pain good, when it preserves you from greater pains, or procures for you a future balance of pleasure.
The best religion must be that which procures its disciples the most real, the most extensive, and the most durable advantages.
Let us now examine the advantages which this religion procures to individuals, who are most strongly convinced of its pretended truths, and who conform the most rigidly to its precepts.
If he orders a man guilty of a capital crime to be put to death, the criminal {319} neither supplicates, nor procures intercession to be made for his life, nor attempts to run away.
At Frankfort he applies to a friend for an introduction to some person likely to give him details concerning Kotzebue and Sand, and his friend procures him a letter addressed to Mr Widemann, surgeon, Heidelberg.
Lucky and unlucky occasions present themselves to every man in the course of his life; and the art of seizing the one and averting the other with address, is commonly what procures for a man the reputation of fortunate.
The ostentation which, doubtless, lies at the root of such customs, we may well forgive, for the better reception it procures us.
At present the fishermen's money is all in the merchants' hands; but he is requiring goods in the meantime, and he has no money to procure them with, and therefore he goes to the merchant and procures his goods.
At present the fisherman's money is all in the merchant's hands; but he is requiring goods in the meantime and he has money to procure them with, and therefore he goes to the merchant and procures his goods.
I generally arrange with some fish-curer, and he procures me a boat, and takes a hire for it for the season.
However, his pupil stealthily procures a Dante; reads him, of course dreams of him; in short, there is an intolerable farago about the great poet.
A youth who makes love procures a piece of black lava shaped significantly, and anoints it with coco-nut oil, etc.
The adept procures a favourable wind for his friends, or for his enemies an adverse; prospers the crops or blights them; controls the game of the hunter, and the cattle of the herdsman.
Thus extravagance, though dictated by vanity, and incited by voluptuousness, seldom procures ultimately either applause or pleasure.
The purity of nature, which procures the holiness of the body; and that there is nothing imperfect in the eyes of the Supreme.
God grant my long delay procures no harm, Nor this my tarrying frustrate my pretence.
Shepherd, it is only Segasto that Procures thy banishment.
In my opinion, and the new canon law states this explicitly, the woman who procuresan abortion on herself or on another woman is excommunicated.
Therefore he confines himself to feeling the fetters which the latter imposes on him, without having the consciousness of the infinite emancipation which it procures for him.
At this period, the world is to him only destiny, not yet an object; all has existence for him only in as far as it procures existence to him; a thing that neither seeks from nor gives to him is non-existent.
This miraculous vase procures all the good things of heaven and earth; it heals wounds, and is filled at the owner's pleasure with the most exquisite food.
God prohibits the sinful act--God ordains and procures the sinful act--God wills the salvation of the reprobate, whom he has from all eternity irreversibly ordained to eternal death!
If she procures Helen a rich husband, she does after all only what every mother in her position would do likewise.
I hope it is really an accident only which procures me at this moment the pleasure of your company?
The surety bails a person when he procures his release from arrest by giving bond for his appearance.
It is good as far as it goes, nevertheless; inasmuch as it procures a holiday, such as it is, for those who would not otherwise know the meaning of the phrase.
Money does not seem to them an end in itself, but they value the comforts and refinements which it procures and which cannot be had without it.
First, justly: for instance, if having in view the honor of God or the good of the Church, one procures its being conferred on a more worthy subject, and then there is no obligation whatever to make restitution or compensation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "procures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
