Human action, 110 That is the seed too of contingencies, Strewed on the dark land of futurity In hopes to reconcile the powers of fate.
O let me reconcile him to himself, Open the sacred source of penitent tears, And be once more his own beloved Alvar.
I have quoted from Vatke's attempt to reconcile grace and free-will: another extract from a writer of the same school may perhaps be helpful.
Whom should I find," he asks, "to reconcile me to Thee?
Philo's object is toreconcile religion and philosophy--in other words, Moses and Plato.
In theory, it may not be easy to reconcile "earnest striving" with complete surrender and abrogation of the will, but the logic of the heart does not find them incompatible.
The problem among the speculative writers was how to reconcile the Absolute of philosophy, who is above all distinctions,[40] with the God of religion, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity.
Sartines had given us all the details which we desired, and after I had promised to reconcile him to his master, he went away delighted with having seen me.
The duchesse d'Aiguillon, who must have pitied the puerility of such a remark, gently endeavoured to reconcile me to it by reminding me that both the marquise de Pompadour and the cardinal de Richelieu had reposed upon that very couch.
The poisoned orange-flower water, and the sudden deaths of the two prisoners, were facts difficult to reconcile with the no less undeniable innocence of the three accused Jesuits.
The secret inclination of my heart had already led me to select the duc d'Aiguillon for my director, and I could not reconcile myself to any other.
On this account the king sought toreconcile us, and would have had no difficulty in effecting his wishes had he only had the resistance of the minister and his wife to encounter.
Even if we may not hope toreconcile the difference between the theologian and the naturalist, it may be well to ascertain where their real divergence begins, or ought to begin, and what it amounts to.
To reconcile these two undeniable principles is the capital problem in the philosophy of natural history; and the hypothesis which consistently does so thereby secures a great advantage.
Here was one of those situations, of which the war presented so many, which it is difficult to reconcile with our accepted estimates of the military capacity of the generals on either side.
They were visionaries seeking to reconcile sentiments that were as opposite as the poles.
I don't think Lady Mary has ever yet thought about Jim's marrying at all; but if Beauchamp and Blanche only make a match of it, I fancy it would reconcile her ladyship to a good deal.
Go a mile to visit a sick man, two miles to reconcile a pair of quarrellers and three miles to see a holy man.
How can we reconcile it with the following passage: "Nec fremere audebit Leo, sed violare timebit, Omnia consuetus Populari pascua laetus.
How can I presume to belittle the sciences before one of the most learned assemblies in Europe, to commend ignorance in a famous Academy, and reconcile my contempt for study with the respect due to the truly learned?
But to reconcile these apparent contradictions, we need only examine closely the emptiness and vanity of those pompous titles, which are so liberally bestowed on human knowledge, and which so blind our judgment.
In this way he would reconcile the revolutionary principle of the supremacy of the people with historical tradition, a thing which neither the Restoration nor the July monarchy nor the Republic of 1848 had been able to achieve.
The emperor, unprepared for the turn which events had taken, attempted to disentangle this confusion by suggesting a fresh congress of the Powers, which should reconcile dynastic interests with those of the people.
About 1548 he studied at Louvain, and, following the example of the Spanish Jew, Judas Abarbanel, published commentaries on Plato and Aristotle in which he endeavoured to reconcile their teaching.
Though the treaty of Coblenz (860) seemed to reconcile the two kings for the moment, no peace was ever possible in Charles the Bald's kingdom.
He framed a theory to reconcile predestination with the universality of grace, which has since been known in this country by the name of Baxterianism, and is, I believe, adopted by many divines at this day.
Florence, in order to reconcile the Greek and Latin churches.
And this seems hard to reconcile with the story that Fust sold his impressions at Paris, as late as 1463, for manuscripts.
By this also they wouldreconcile the knowledge we were supposed to possess of the reality of universals, with the acknowledged impossibility, at least in many cases, of representing them to the mind.
But it seems difficult to reconcile this with known dates, or with other accounts of that celebrated person’s history.
Both positive and scholastic theology were much indebted to Peter Lombard, whose Liber Sententiarum is a digest of propositions extracted from the fathers, with no attempt to reconcile them.
Is it to be wondered at that henceforth he attempted to reconcile the great oriental religion which it represented, with every scientific principle and philosophical doctrine to which he had hitherto subscribed?
Through such shameful subservience do you hope to reconcile those to whom, if you were a man, you would never give a friendly greeting, so badly have they treated you?
Yet reconcile them; and if there is no other way, go to Rome and kiss the feet of Leo, and then write against us.
In dreams we see much, though we but seldom understand; we are powerfully agitated by our sensations, images follow each other, without the least intervention of the mind, either to compare or reconcile them.
The Voltairean deist--and such persons exist in ample numbers to this day--hardly ever takes the trouble to reconcile with one another the various attributes which he imputes at various times to some great master power of the universe.
Genius and fine friends reconcile no prudent notary to a son's hatred for law and the desk.
Strangely enough they thought it the climax of philosophic profundity to reconcile their natural spiritualism with the supernatural spiritualism of the scriptures, and rationalistic theism with the historic theism of revelation.
This His Honour takes to show an extreme want of statesmanship which seems hard to reconcile with his former action.
This is the true Atonement--that is, to reconcile the struggles of the infinitely various finite with the permanent.
In every twenty pages it recommends contradictions, but he who cannot reconcile them for himself, and discover which suits his plan, can never rise in the world.
But I have never been able to reconcile myself, even theoretically, either to the cheapest place, in the Edgware Road, or the dearest place, in Bond Street.
This was nice and kind and friendly, and I tried in vain to reconcile it with what I had heard of English stiffness and exclusiveness and reserve.
This was hard toreconcile with democratic principles, too.
But some of the older ones gaze with astonishment and wonder at me, and seem at a loss to reconcile what they see and what was pictured in their imaginations.
That will reconcile you both, if you will but qualify yourself a little for it.
If the Matter should rise to a greater Height, I am afraid it would be of ill Consequence to more than themselves: I will do all I can in the World, to reconcile them; they are both my Kinsmen.
But there is another Scruple that I can't tell how to solve, or how to reconcile to that Passage: But I will not be brought under the Power of any.
That by this Sacrifice he might reconcile to himself us who were guilty, we putting our Confidence and Hope in his Name.
And then if I know I have offended any Man, I take Care to make him Satisfaction if I can presently; but if I cannot do that, I resolve in my Mind to reconcile my Neighbour as soon as possible.
For how can wereconcile it, that God should be against Sacrifices, who had commanded so many to be offered?
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