You aren't able to serve God and mammon{"Mammon" refers to riches or a false god of wealth.
It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.
Chang-Chih-Tung refers in one of his works to the apparent immorality of Western thought; and if we grant that books like these are typical of Western thought, we shall not be able to wonder at his conclusion.
And as Confucius refers in several places to Heaven as a power that punishes, the definition is obviously incorrect.
There is besides the question of Parliamentary procedure (this refers to action on the Address).
Balfour had in reading us [Footnote: "Us" refers to the joint work on Imperial Defence.
He refers from assertion to assertion, and nowhere gives a single authority to the point in question.
The Saviour refersto the abuse of State authority, as a warning to those who should be clothed with authority in his kingdom, not to abuse it, but to connect the use of it with humility.
But stop: in making this assertion, he refersus to his "Notes on Eph.
Beyond all doubt, this language refers to a state of hereditary bondage, from the afflictions of which, ordinarily, nothing in that day brought relief but death.
The Bible never refers to the consent of the governed, the superiority of the rulers, or to the general principles of expediency, as the ground of our obligation to the higher powers.
Venice edition in 1494, and refers to other astronomical works by the same author.
Shakespeare refers to this fable, when Adriana addresses Antipholus of Syracuse,— “How ill agrees it with your gravity To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave, Abetting him to thwart me in my mood!
One of these refers to a specimen taken in a private garden near Southampton (Entom.
Stephens (1829) refers to its occurrence in the London district, and it still appears in woods around Highgate.
Staudinger in his catalogue of Palaearctic Lepidoptera refers twenty genera comprising sixty-three species to this family.
Licked into shape" refers to the tale we give in our account of the bear.
Indeed Lyon only refers to the angakoq's visit to Nuliajoq, whom he considers a genius of a great angakoq, though he remarks in another place (p.
There is a discrepancy in Nourse's extract from Hall's journal, for he sometimes refers to the Pelly Bay natives as different from the Sinimiut, while in other passages all the inhabitants of the bay are comprised in the latter term.
An old tradition is handed down which refers to a Kalopaling: An old woman lived with her grandson in a small hut.
One tradition only refers to a real fight between the tribes.
If the Company had a mind to inquire what is become of all the debts due to them, and where is the cabooleat, he refers them to Gunga Govind Sing.
The preamble of this convention refers to the interruption for a time of the good understanding and harmony between the two nations which has rendered that distant armament necessary.
The Captain Meigs to whom the bill refers is Montgomery C.
In the Timæus he refers to "a mighty warlike power, rushing from the Atlantic sea and spreading itself with hostile fury over all Europe and Asia.
In the Timæus he refers to the island continent, while the Critias or Atlanticus is nothing less than a detailed account of the history, arts, manners and customs of the people.
Prince Charles refers to the incident as follows, in a letter to his father: "The insurrection appears to be wholly suppressed for the present, and the few insurgents still remaining in Bulgaria have retired to the Balkans.
Though it cannot be believed that this formal engagement is to be violated, still great anxiety prevails here, especially as the Russian Press constantly refers to this topic.
Another letter of Prince Charles also refers to this point: "The newspapers again accuse us of persecuting the Jews, because the recent licensing law forbids a Jew to keep a public-house in a village.
It is worthy of remark, that in the cases which Calmet refers to of persons in his own time, and of his own acquaintance, being thus raised from the ground, he in no instance states himself to have been a witness of the wonder.
But he refers us to their works to distinguish them.
The last sentence of this letter refers to a lock of the hair of Charles I.
This allusion most probably refers to James, second Earl of Ormond, who, from being the maternal grandson of Edward I.
It simply refers the facts of adaptation immediately to some theory of design, and so brings us back again to Paley, Bell, and Chalmers.
But he not less than three times makes an exception for Columbus, to whom he most expressly refers the theory of a pulmonary circulation.
But though he certainly claims the doctrine of a general circulation as wholly his own, and counts it a paradox which will startle everyone, he as expressly refers (p.
In a letter to Father Fulgentio, which bears no date in print, but must have been written about 1624, he refers to a juvenile work about forty years before, which he had confidently entitled The Greatest Birth of Time.
Among these, the translation of Florus by Coeffeteau was reckoned a masterpiece of French style, and Vaugelas refers more frequently to this than to any other book.
And it is remarkable that he refers this latter question to natural law, because he had not found any clear decision of it by the positive law of nations.
He refers the tenet of natural liberty and the popular origin of government to the schoolmen, allowing that all papists and the reformed divines have imbibed it, but denying that it is found in the fathers.
But it is doubtless the Sixteenth Bulletin (dated Potsdam, October 25th) to which Josephine refers, and which refers to the oath of alliance of the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in the death chamber of Frederick the Great.
He refers to a Berlin caricature of the scene which was at the time in all the shops, "exciting even the laughter of clodhoppers.
The latter, however, had recently been heavily mulcted in other valueless discoveries, and refers Fulton to the savants of the Institute, who report it chimerical and impracticable.
So Montgaillard; but Napoleon refers to it in the thirty-ninth bulletin, dated December 7th, while Haydn dates it January 7th.
The other, now missing, may have some reference to the pictures to which he refers in his letter to Fouche the next day.
Hakluyt thus positively affirms that the old map to which he refers was given by Verrazzano himself to the king.
Peter Martyr, after mentioning the proposed expedition of Sebastian Cabot to the south, thusrefers in July 1524, to that of Gomez and its destination.
Lescarbot againrefers incidentally to Verrazzano in connection with Jacques Cartier, to whom he attributes a preposterous statement, acknowledging the Verrazzano discovery.
The first published map whichrefers to the Verrazzano discoveries, that of Mercator in 1569, makes no reference to the Verrazano map, and does not recognize it in any manner.
Charlevoix, with a proper discrimination, refers directly to Ramusio as the sole source from whence the account of the discovery is derived, as do the French writers who have mentioned it since his time, except M.
He does not state that they took place in that year, but refers to them in connection with the discoveries alleged to have been made in that year by Verrazzano, whom he identifies as the corsair.
This refers to some kind of a scheme, I forget what, for the republication of stray magazine-work of mine under the title Pictures, Places, and People.
The following to Mr. Henry James, who from about this time began to be a frequent and ever welcome visitor at the Bournemouth home, refers to the essay of R.
The following letterrefers to this matter and to Mr. Low's proposed dedication to R.
In every one of these cases it refers to the remaining portion of a class mentioned, but not exhausted; and it cannot be extended to any class beyond them.
The first impression produced by the vision of the sealed is undoubtedly that it refers to Jewish Christians, and to them alone.
The first refers to a spiritual, the second to a bodily, resurrection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
