By the divine intention of the Spirit of God, in recording and propounding of examples in Scripture: for he records and propounds them for this very end, that they may be imitated.
The history, therefore, of the Acts propounds examples admonitory and obligatory upon us, that we should express like acts in like cases.
Immediate divine commands: as those which God propounds and urges; as the ten commandments, Exod.
He is treating of the impossibility of our "knowing" anything about the substance of mind; and he propounds this impossibility in the following logical formula: .
Where he propounds positive dogmas, he does not bring them face to face with objections, nor verify their authority by showing that they afford satisfactory solution of the difficulties exhibited in his negative procedure.
In confutation of this idea, Joseph de Maistre propounds his theory: "Man cannot make a constitution, and a lawful constitution cannot be written.
There is something actually refreshing in the naïveté and courage with which the sturdy Professor of the Associate Synod propoundshis own dissent from the common Milton-worship.
Richard also propounds a division of human knowledge which is clearly not derived directly from the ancients, and which shows that considerable attention must have been paid to such speculations.
In his Problems, he is so far from giving dogmatical solutions of the questions proposed, that in most cases, he propounds two or three solutions as mere suggestions and conjectures.
Parmenides, who completely takes the conduct of the Dialogue, then turns to another part of the subject and propounds other arguments.
When we ponder duly the short phrases in which Aristotle propounds his conception of God we find that he has called up before us the noblest possible object of human thought, the presentiment of that thought's perfect fulfilment.
It is clear from his customary pursuits, is it not, sirs, that when our friend Euthydemus here is of full age, and the state propounds some question for solution, he will not abstain from offering the benefit of his advice?
In every chapter Suarez propounds the arguments of doctors on either side of the problem, ending with his own determination, which is frequently a middle course.
In dealing with the Middle Ages, he propounds the proposition that the best way to understand history is to read it backwards--that is, if we are to understand the Magna Charta we must be on speaking terms with Mary.
Taylor, which he propounds in his book—but he propounds it as a theory of his own; he does not vouch, as I remember, any eminent toxicologist in support of it.
The doctrine of will which Leibniz propounds is in closest harmony with his conception of intelligence, and this not merely in the way of empirical juxtaposition, but as the result of his fundamental principles.
It is here that he propounds his singular hypothesis--the interior network of air and fire, and the oscillating ebb and flow of these intense agencies in the cavity of the abdomen.
In each case the prophet is full of a conviction so intense that he propounds it with perfect confidence as the word of God.
He first propounds in clearness the most important question of humanity,--how shall man by reason and by will become master of life?
He propounds that which he is to speak in the fittest way, for the commendation of it to their hearts, and oh!
But, to be just to any opinion, it ought to be considered, not exclusively from an opponent's point of view, but from that of the mind whichpropounds it.
A merchant neighbour of singular astuteness propounds a solution.
In a most stimulating little essay on The Supreme Poet the philosopher propounds his ideal for literature.
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