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Example sentences for "reason and"

  • When Mohammed preached his sublimest doctrines, and appealed to reason and conscience, he converted about a score of people in thirteen years.

  • She yielded to man in matters of reason and intellect, but he yielded to her in the virtues of the heart and the radiance of the soul.

  • But Gregory was stronger than his rebellious clergy,--stronger than the instincts of human nature, stronger than the united voice of reason and Scripture.

  • He was essentially an honest man, always open to reason and truth, learning wisdom from experience, and growing more liberal as he advanced in years.

  • All popular agitations have failed unless they have appealed to reason and right.

  • In England reforms have been effected only by appeals to reason and intelligence, and not by violence.

  • No doubt but I should have shared on his fatted calf, as the scripture expresseth it; but my ill fate still pusheth me on, in spite of the powerful convictions of reason and conscience.

  • Thus was it with me; but not withstanding the thoughts of my deliverance ran so strongly in my mind, that is seemed to check all the dictates of reason and philosophy.

  • The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

  • Restrained by reason and severe principles.

  • In a manner calculated to serve as the basis of action; according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according to reason and probability.

  • Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge?

  • Those fierce and bloody Barbarians had been persuaded, by the voice of reason and religion, to acknowledge Jesus for their God, the Christian missionaries for their teachers, and the Romans for their friends and brethren.

  • These two women may be much upon a par, with respect to reason and humanity; and changing situations, might have acted just the same selfish part; but had they been differently educated, the case would also have been very different.

  • We encourage a vicious indolence and inactivity, which we falsely call delicacy; instead of hardening their minds by the severer principles of reason and philosophy, we breed them to useless arts, which terminate in vanity and sensuality.

  • And women, whom he flattered by a puerile attention to the whole sex, obtained in his reign that prince-like distinction so fatal to reason and virtue.

  • It is very much to be feared, that the apportionment of time actually made by most women exactly inverts the order required by reason and Christianity.

  • The emperor Maximus, who had advanced as far as Ravenna, to secure that important place, and to hasten the military preparations, beheld the event of the war in the more faithful mirror of reason and policy.

  • Of the four most celebrated schools, the Stoics and the Platonists endeavored to reconcile the jaring interests of reason and piety.

  • Against such unworthy adversaries, Cicero condescended to employ the arms of reason and eloquence; but the satire of Lucian was a much more adequate, as well as more efficacious, weapon.

  • He lived but four years afterwards: but he lived long enough to repent a rash measure, which raised the impetuous youth above the restraint of reason and authority.

  • Among the early followers of our Lord there had been no pride of reason and a very simple creed.

  • He used the same weapons as his antagonist, even the arms of reason and knowledge, and constructed an argument which was overwhelming, if Paul's Epistles were to be the accepted premises of his irresistible logic.

  • It is the first law both of reason and revelation, to regard things and beings as they are; and the sum of religion, to feel and act toward them according to their value.

  • It is the first law both of reason and revelation to regard things and beings as they are; and the sum of religion, to feel and act towards them according to their value.

  • It is the first law of reason and revelation to regard things and beings as they are; and the sum of religion, to feel and act toward them according to their nature and value.

  • Have the multiplied words of a statute an influence over the conscience and the heart, more powerful than that of reason and nature?

  • A people who are disarmed in compliance with this fatal refinement, have rested their safety on the pleadings of reason and of justice at the tribunal of ambition and of force.

  • We were nature as they are; and culture, following the way of reason and of liberty, must bring us back to nature.

  • He sets up his own favourite notions as the standard of reason and honesty, because he has changed from one extreme to another!

  • But, happily, women are no longer content to be part of the livestock about the place; they have acquired the right of reason and judgment in matters concerning themselves in particular, and the welfare of the world at large.

  • The effect is (as far as our comprehension of it goes) altogether preternatural and inexplicable; yet it is far less our effect than what we do by reason and by taking thought.

  • Its length varied but a few feet, although it covered more water, and its foundations and other contingencies were quite as difficult and unfavorable.

  • At all these points he was eminently successful, and, besides his regular pastoral labors, did considerable work in the general field.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    animal form; canine teeth; characteristic feature; facing each; greenish color; laid open; old friend; other considerations; probably only; rank and file wounded; reason alone; reason from; reason whereof; reason why; reasonable amount; reasonable being; reasonable cause; reasonable doubt; reasonable price; reasonable profit; reasonable terms; reasonable time; sent thee; sure thing; three rooms; usually happens