The tone in which Ennius writes of such professions reminds us of Milton's grim contempt for Eremites and friars White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.
Savage; they represent various kinds of mathematical instruments, together with the trades and professions in which they are used.
After such exhibitions of its practice, its professions have lost their power.
Prodikus, respecting the miseries of human life, pervading all the various professions and occupations.
Leading ideas which directed the scrutiny of Sokratês—contrast between the special professions and the general duties of social life.
One day my father, an honest man and good citizen, if there were ever any such, but who had nothing in common with the Muses, asked my brother and I what professions we would adopt when we grew big.
And to be sure, all professions are alike in the eye of reason; only there are some which I think a gentleman should leave to people who need money to distinguish them.
But the hour drew nigh which was to put professions to the proof, and to determine whether the authors of these mutual pledges were ready to seal them in blood.
Men were to be educated for theprofessions and the public.
The abominable rule of the Porte on one side, the value and the sufferings of the Christian Greeks on the other, furnished a case likely to convince even an incredulous world of the sincerity of the professions of the Allied Powers.
The reader will find the application of many such terms to different trades and professionsin p.
But when the last enclosure of the Roman constitution was trampled down by Caracalla, the separation of professions gradually succeeded to the distinction of ranks.
Their declaration in his favor commanded the dutiful professions of the senate.
She ventured to declare, that she could place very little confidence in the professions of a man whose cruel inconstancy was capable of repudiating a faithful and affectionate wife.
The convulsions of the capital added new weight to his sentiments, or rather to his professions of patriotism.
The nobility, whose conspicuous station, and ample possessions, exacted the strictest caution, dissembled their sentiments, and met the affected civility of the emperor with smiles of complacency and professions of duty.
Such extravagant compliments, however, soon lose their impiety by losing their meaning; and when the ear is once accustomed to the sound, they are heard with indifference, as vague though excessive professions of respect.
His professions might be sincere; but in the situation where fortune had placed him, it was scarcely possible that he could either forgive or be forgiven.
By consenting to receive that honor from Maximian, Constantine seemed to embrace the cause of Rome and of the senate; but his professions were ambiguous, and his assistance slow and ineffectual.
Shall we believe that this man's professions of a change of heart are genuine?
The noble professions almost invariably ran in families, so that members of the same household devoted themselves for generations to one particular science or art, such as poetry, history, medicine, law.
The heads of the various professions in the tuath received the title of ollam.
Some idea of the style of living of the learned professions in early Ireland may be gathered from the income enjoyed in later times by the literati of Tir Conaill (Co.
The work remains a worthy monument of the two great masters in their respective professions whose collaboration created it.
All the professions are open to them, and the opportunity has widely been made use of.
That is his god, and his treasure, whatever his professions may be.
I am aware that these sentiments have been called puling professions of humanity; nay, that there are men and women who would weep bitterly over the sufferings of a sick pet, while they would view accumulated human misery unmoved.
Various professions have been supposed to exercise much influence on the intellectual faculties.
For a long time the two professions have been inseparable.
He had failed to satisfy his enemies, by these profuse professions had dishonoured himself, and disgusted many who were far from being hostile to his person or family.
Lawyers are not supposed to be qualified for entering upon their professions at any place of public education.
One is that of professional men, and physicians and divines who are to be qualified for entering upon their professions immediately after leaving the college or university.
Lear, who loved Cordelia best, had wished her to make more extravagant professions of love than her sisters.
Those who follow professions believe this, and the lay public that employs the professions is not dismayed by this attitude of the professional class; and so things tend to that equality of charlatanry to which democracy instinctively tends.
The contempt for efficiency is carried far even in the liberal professions and in professional customs.
And, let not the answer, ever at hand when reference is thus made to the prayers or professions of individuals, whether popes or canonized saints, seduce any now from a pursuit of the very truth.
These, it is said, "are the prayers and professions of individuals, it is unfair then to make the Church responsible for them; we appeal from them to the Church.
To what results the union of the two professions was liable to lead, may be seen by the example of a learned and famous person, who has left on record the product of his labors in the double capacity of clergyman and physician.
To the players themselves, notwithstanding the hard work, it has the same beauty and fascinations that other professions have for those who have entered them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "professions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
