La raison et le Christianisme: twelve lectures on the existence of God, one vol.
Cousin was developing at the Sorbonne the meaning of these verses of La Fontaine, which introduce the fable of the Wolf and the Lamb: La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure: Je vais le montrer tout à l'heure.
There will be considerable latitude of choice in the defensive positions; though not, of course, the same latitude as when the existence of a precipitous hill was the raison d'etre of the castle.
In fact it frequently happened that the existence of such a position was the raison d'etre of the castle.
Evolving, they say repeatedly, for they are fain to show that there is still remaining in Japan a wide field reserved for them to work, lest their raison d'etre in this country should otherwise be lost forever.
Buddhism could not destroy the independent existence of Shintoism, and the former became heterogeneous by the assimilation of the latter, so that the raison d'etre of Buddhism in Japan was very much weakened by the assimilation.
The Shogun, who ought to have continued as a military dictator, had been turned into a potentate who cared the least for military matters, though here lurked the danger of losing his raison d'etre against the Emperor at Kyoto.
The reasons andraison d'être for this undertaking become sufficiently clear through Dr.
I have sometimes thought they would have a hard time of it, if suddenly called on to give their raison d’être, and to show cause why they should be allowed to live any longer!
In the Northern states this raison d'etre wholly disappears.
I didn't intind to move yez away this noight; but if yez are afeared, why there's no raison in loife why yez shouldn't go off now to the other room.
I forgot to say my Leadan Wurrah this mornin', and that is theraison that your temptation has overcome me.
And, besides, I have raison to know that he will be arrested this very night for attempting to poison his brother.
The raison d'être of social work, as well as the fundamental problem of all social institutions in city life must be understood in its relation to this background.
I have not been able to deduce from phenomena the raison d'être of the properties of gravity and I have not set up hypotheses.
Incapable of foresight, the nobles were the first to break with the traditions that were their only raison d'être.
It is not only very well written but thoroughly well conceived, and of the right tone and manner to maintain for criticism its right and its raison d'etre.
I may further add that the above is the raison d'etre why prize courts of different countries make it their theory, unlike ordinary civil or criminal courts, that they administer prima facie the law of nations and not lex loci.
Thus, for instance, torture is looked upon by the Occidentals simply as barbarous, but it has its raison d'etre in the Chinese jurisprudence.
The raison d'etre of the torture, therefore, is not so bad as casual observers imagine.
By raison that she's a hairess and a grate beauty,' sez the ould jintleman.
Sure, if the coaches as carries the letthers is the male stages, it stands to raison thim as doesn't must be the faymales.
This riot of abstract reasoning (la raison raisonnante) that prepared the way for the Revolution has been identified by Taine and others with the classic spirit.
He falls precisely into those errors of the raison raisonnante, about which, in his description of the intellectual preparation of the great overthrow, he has said so many just and acute things.
If this be the case, what becomes of the position that the revolutionary philosophy was worked out by the raison raisonnante, which is the special faculty of a country saturated with the classic spirit?
Because, he answers, the new seed fell upon ground that was suited to it, the home of the classic spirit, the country of raison raisonnante.
It was not a literary aptitude in the nation for raison raisonnante, which developed the political theories of Rousseau, the moral and psychological theories of Diderot, the anti-ecclesiastical theories of Voltaire and Holbach.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raison" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
