The third method by which Society professes to attempt the reclamation of the lost is by the rough, rude surgery of the Gaol.
It in no way professes to be complete in all its details.
He professes no greater faith either in Israel's destiny or in Jehovah's sole Godhead than he really feels.
He delays, and professes to consult God, diplomatically, that even by the refusal his fame as a diviner acquainted with the Unseen Power may be established.
It is impossible to argue against what professes to be insight, so long as it does not argue in its own favour.
What Zeno professes to prove is that "half of a given time is equal to double that time.
Kant professes to prove both these propositions, whereas, if what we have said on modern logic has any truth, it must be impossible to prove either.
Of course he also professes to derive his psychology from the Holy Scriptures.
Wendt professes to see the first traces of the scholastic and Romish theory, and in de anima 16, 41 the germ of the subsequent Protestant view.
The new canon of Scripture set up by Irenæus and Tertullian primarily professes to be nothing else than a collection of apostolic writings, which, as such, claim absolute authority.
Finally, the Augsburg Confession does not usurp the rights of the Word of God; it desires to be its handmaid and not its rival; it does not found, it does not regulate the faith, but simply professes it.
No one, who professes to be governed by reason, will dispute the propriety of any assembly's being the judge of the qualifications requisite to constitute a member of their own body.
The form of this Epistle clearly professes to be as genuine as the substance, and if the original language was Greek, there is absolutely no reason why the original letter should have been altered.
At any rate, it is added, Paul professes that his preaching on the death, burial, and Resurrection is the same as that of the other Apostles.
Each Gospel tacitly professes to be a perfectly independent work, giving the history of Jesus, or at {478} least of the active part of his life, and of his death and Resurrection.
Christ professes himself the flower of mankind, yea, the Lord of all creatures: and, ver.
Job Chapter 14 Job declares the shortness of man's days: and professes his belief of a resurrection.
In reality he believes in the feudal system, even while he professes to scorn what we call aristocracy.
I take it then that you have no suspicion that your servant is any other than he professes to be?
It is, says John Yeardley, what it professes to be, for education in the fullest extent of the word, to give to those committed to their care an education suited to their circumstances and their future prospects in life.
He not only, says John Yeardley, professes our principles, but bears a clear and fearless testimony for them.
The known style of a dedication is flattery: it professes to flatter.
Pray have you been yet to that man who professes to cure consumption in the worst stages?
She professes to be a patroness of literature, and holds weekly soirees in London, for all the newspaper poets.
I could not help being exceedingly amused by a book written the other day, which professes to give an accurate description of good society.
How can I be certain that he who professes to be inspired by the Divinity does not promulgate his own reveries or impostures as the oracles of heaven?
Give a token to the Roman people that your wisdom shall not fail the republic, since that too professes that its valour shall never desert it either.
What of Bestia, who professesthat he is a candidate for the consulship in the place of Brutus?
In truth, a man who professes to be himself a defender of many men, wise men say, ought in the first place to show himself able to protect his own life.
He thinks nothing low or indifferent of which this can be affirmed: every thing that professes to be more than this, that is not an absolute essence of truth and feeling, he holds to be vitiated, false, and spurious.
In the same scene he afterwards affects melancholy, from pure satisfaction of heart, and professes reform, because it is the farthest thing in the world from his thoughts.
All his periods are cast in the same mould, are of the same size and shape, and consequently have little fitness to the variety of things he professes to treat of.
Carlyle thought it so strange that he professes to be quite unable as a man of the world to understand Charles Townshend making it, except "for his own glory of having sent an eminent Scotch philosopher to travel with the Duke.
But M'Culloch professes to see internal evidences of this difference of manual method in the different style of the respective works.
Can one, who professes the peaceable doctrines of the Gospel, be a soldier, when it is his duty not so much as to go to law?
There is none to test her knowledge if she professes to know the King.
And even if anybody professes to show me to you, how can you be sure he is speaking the truth?
Upon my hope of salvation, were I but in my former health, I would get me up there to judge for myself what these wonders are which he professes to see.
In prosperous times money is at command for every project which professes to do good, and suffering is instantly relieved by bounty which is sometimes extravagant.
During three years' residence he professes to have devoted great attention to the subject of transportation.
Sir Fitz James Stephen professes great regret that we have not got Pilate's account of the events immediately preceding the Crucifixion.
I see no reason to doubt the material of the Lombard Cross at Monza, and I do not see why the Holy Coat at Trèves may not have been what it professes to be.
A superficies is that which professes to have principle, but has no consistency.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "professes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
