It is said in the 'Institutes of Vishnu' that the eating of pure food is more essential than all external means of purification; "he who eats pure food only is truly pure, not he who is only purified with earth and water.
The Caribs purified their bodies by purging, bloodletting, and fasting; and the natives of the Antilles, at certain religious festivals, cleansed themselves by vomiting before they approached the sanctuary.
Those who have struck any of these persons cannot be readmitted until they have been purified with water taken from a sacred lake or river.
He who has committed a sin and has repented, is freed from that sin, but he is purified only by the resolution of ceasing to sin and thinking 'I will do so no more.
It has been the scene of abomination and impiety, and must be purified by fire.
When an individual descends into a well or pit that contains carbonic acid, the blood is not changed or purified in the lungs, and loss of consciousness and death soon follow.
Show how the blood is imperfectly purified by restricting the movements of the ribs and diaphragm.
Lanfranc was one of the most vigilant of these Scripture guards, and his own industry blest his church with the bible text, purified from the gross handmarks of human meddling.
Northern women may labor to produce a correct public opinion at the North, but if Southern women sit down in listless indifference and criminal idleness, public opinion cannot be rectified and purified at the South.
His theory was, that through a body so purged and purified none but true and natural impulses could find access to the soul.
The nitre is then separated and purified by crystallization.
He was untouched by the fires that burnt and purified her.
But even purified carbon dioxide is itself a rather repugnant gas, a product of metabolism whether fast or slow, and forever associated with those life processes which are obnoxious to the fastidious.
He purified the revolution, in separating the truths which it contained from the passions that, during its delirium, disfigured it.
To use his own words, 'He purified the revolution, he confirmed kings, and ennobled people.
Varchi says, “The Italians cannot be sufficiently thankful to Bembo, for having not only purified their language from the rust of past ages, but given it such regularity and clearness, that it has become what we now see.
And there is another pint I haint ever said anything about, but I think it ought to be known here betwixt ourselves and not to go any further" said, Miss Martha Gallop "but the way he treated his poor wife Malindy was a purified scandal.
Hit pears lak his mind is a purified a wonderin; noboddy haint rid in dat kerrige since ole missis died, und it do seem lak a skandle to rub ole missis' tracks out dis late day.
Our industrial life has been purified of prejudice.
So will our business relations emerge, purified but justified.
His most important work is his “Catholic Dogmatics,” of 1881, in which the Old Catholic conception of Christianity is represented as the purified higher unity of the Protestant and Vatican systems of doctrine.
Throughout the poem he shows that he does reverence it, and that his whole being has been purified and elevated by its spirit.
Nay--your sufferings are the purgatorial fires whereby you may perchance be purified from the guilt of your treachery toward an innocent girl.
The stream cannot rise above its source, nor be purified in its flow if bitter waters come from the fountain.
As I have said, the language in the original here implies that there was a given definite moment in the past when these dispersed strangers obeyed, and, by obeying the truth, purified their souls.
This very Apostle, in his great speech in Jerusalem, when vindicating the reception of the Gentiles into the Church, spoke of God as having 'purified their hearts by faith.
Ye havepurified your souls,' ideally, in the act of faith, and continuously, in the measure in which you practically obey the truth.
Put the healing agent into it, the fountain-head, and all the streams that pour out thence will bepurified and sweetened.
And now you come down through the centuries purified by Time, to be my jasmine-flower.
And now you come down through the centuries purified by Time--" The words slowly repeated themselves in her brain.
The spell shall at last be broken in the new knowledge of Jehovah which is produced by calamity; and the heart of the people, purified from its delusions, shall turn to Him who has smitten them, as the only true God.
There we have the thought which is expanded in the vision of the purified theocracy which occupies the closing chapters of the book.
Then Paul taking the men, on the following day being purified with them went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification till an offering should be offered for each one of them.
It was necessary, therefore, that the symbols of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
And almost all things, according to the law, are purifiedwith blood, and without the pouring out of blood there is no forgiveness.
I advise you to buy of me gold purifiedin the fire that you may be rich, and white robes that you may put on, and the shame of your nakedness not appear, and an eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you may see.
And a voice answered from heaven a second time, What God has purified do not you regard common.
She is helped by the event; purified by it; strengthened; made more acceptable with God and pleasing to reasonable men.
Hence periods usually considered calamitous are accompanied by corrections of what may be wrong; and the body religious is purified by the expulsion of those whose rebellion and apostasy but prove them unworthy of the Lord's work.
In consequence of this he was tormented by the Furies, and he exiled himself to Athens, where Apollo purified him.
Zeus, however, took pity on him, and took him up to heaven and therepurified him.
The throng of desperadoes by whose practical banishment the wise viceroy had purified Peru, could not be expected to get along well together.
The Spaniards dethroned and smashed this pagan fetich, purified the temple, and set up in it a large cross to dedicate it to God.
