They do not purify the passions through terror as is done by Lear or Macbeth, and they are much inferior in majesty to the Cherubic trumpets blowing martial sound of Milton.
We need a philosophy like this to purify and enlighten our politics, to consecrate our industry, to cheer and elevate society.
The conceptive powers want much more purification than the perceptive; and it is only as we purify the conceptive that we shall get the perceptive clear.
Wherefore thy life Shall purify itself, and heal itself, In the long toil of love made meek by tears.
They give their little power unto the wind To purify for men the air they breathe,-- Air wafted far by every rising breeze.
In speaking of political cowardice and corruption, he says: "Were it not for the thunder and lightning of the Garrisonians to purify the moral atmosphere, we would all sink into perdition together.
Tragic poetry must purify the passions of fear and pity; in other words, it must teach men not to fear when fear is vile, or to pity where pity would be thrown away.
Orestes has taken refuge with the god who bade him slay his mother, and who must now purify him.
To purify the soul from the dross and filthof sensual delights.
Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.
The plant and equipment used topurify water for drinking and other purposes, and to supply it to the mains of a town.
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.
Purify your hearts and cease to kill; that is true religion.
Purity and impurity belong to oneself, no one can purify another.
As soon as he will understand that the punishment will purifyhis soul, he will no longer lament his fate but rejoice at it.
Their hope was to translate Christianity into a purely rational doctrine, to purify religious notions without destroying them, and, while endowing humanity with a vigorous scientific culture, to leave to it its lofty hopes.
He declares that he is going to use energetic efforts to purify the sect, and seems to intimate that he shall retire if his efforts fail.
It is not the tyrannical and capricious interference of a half-informed majority which can safely mould or purify a population, but rather that simplification of instinct for which we ever hope, which fuller knowledge alone can make possible.
But it accepted the stream of life as it found it, and while working to cleanse the banks of the stream it made no attempt to purify the stream itself.
To stem back that tide is the task now imposed on our heroism, to elevate and purify and refine the race, to introduce the ideal of quality in place of the ideal of quantity which has run riot so long, with the results we see.
They do not find sufficient oxygen to purify or decarbonize their blood through the night; they consequently are not refreshed, nor invigorated and fully prepared for the labors of the following day.
The lungs will not decarbonize and purify the blood with foul air, that has been breathed over and over and lost its oxygen.
Consequently the sanitary officers have in many cases been compelled to put in tanks to treat this dirty water and purify it.
Yes, everything becomes bread to nourish me, water to cleanse me, fire to purify me, a chisel to give me celestial form.
He, therefore, who would abundantly enjoy all good has but to purify his heart, detach himself from creatures, and completely abandon himself to the will of God.
Yes, Lord, let Thy kingdom come to my heart to sanctify it, to nourish it, to purify it, to render it victorious over my enemies.
Woe is me that I did not purify myself in time from every kind of sin!
May he purify our spirits, and all the faculties of our souls!
This must be a lord over sin and death, able to subdue so obstinate an evil, and by his divine virtue, to renew, transform, and purify again the defiled nature of man.
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid; by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
For as by true and genuine love, we hear Christ; so by faith and profound humility, we must see him; for that only can purify our hearts from vain pride.
He had exerted himself to stay the mischief at its fountain, to punish bribery, to punish the rapacity of proconsuls and propraetors, to purify the courts, to maintain respect for the law.
He had been censor, and in this capacity he had ejected disreputable senators from the Curia; he had degraded offending equites; he had rearranged and tried topurify the Comitia.
