I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined.
To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul.
Defn: To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions.
To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
Defn: To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.
By the theorems, Which your polite and terser gallants practice, I re-refine the court, and civilize Their barbarous natures.
The more we refineour faculties, other things equal, the wiser we grow: we are the more raised above the thickness of the atmosphere that envelops our fellow-mortals, and are made partakers of a nature superhuman and divine.
Does it refine the moral taste, or call into action the best feelings of our nature?
Refine and purge our earthly parts; But, oh, inflame and fire our hearts!
Music was long used before it was loved or people took pains to refine it.
When he has learned to appreciate whatever is æsthetically appreciable in his problem, he can go on to refine his construction, to ennoble, and finally to decorate it.
Even while we refine our aspirations, the ground they sprang from will be eaten away beneath our feet.
Such excursions into ultra-mundane regions, where order is free, refine the mind and make it familiar with perfection.
Thy choice was earth: thou didst attest 'Twas fitter spirit should subserve The flesh, than flesh refine to nerve Beneath the spirit's play.
Till cunning come to pound and squeeze And clarify,--refine to proof The liquor filtered by degrees, While the world stands aloof.
Our philosophers may refine on the causes of the crusades, but such were the genuine feelings of a French knight.
Therefore we have to test our motives and seek to refine our purest emotions, and the more scrupulously the purer they seem, lest we be yielding to the impulses of self while we fancy that we are being drawn by the magnetism of Christ.
And my recipe is pictures and statues, and all that will refine the mind, and lift the taste.
Subsequent ages may refine their images, expand their sentiments, perhaps improve their expression; but they add little to the stock of their conceptions.
Moral purity and sweetnessrefine and beautify the countenance.
Nor is there any dross that love will not refine away, nor any vice that love can not expel from the heart.
They refine it by solution in water, evaporation, and crystallization.
To refine the saltpetre prepared in this manner, consists in separating the muriates.
Manufactures were so entirely interdicted from the date of their coming under the crown of Great Britain, that the colonists were not permitted even to refine their own sugar, and still less to convert their cotton into cloth.
Such mortal perfection loses its full effect, unless we can look upon it as physically immortal: as soon as we begin to refine our ideas into the abstract, we sully our enjoyment.
While we refine our chronology, it is possible that the illiterate prophet was ignorant of his own age.
The distant or hostile tribes resorted to an annual fair, which was abolished by the fanaticism of the first Moslems; a national assembly that must have contributed to refine and harmonize the Barbarians.
And with the same Fuell to Melt and Fine Imperfect Mettals, and Refineperfect Mettals.
Now this Philosopher was not only a Person of great Sence and Probity, but was likewise suppos'd to refine upon the Heathen Theology, to throw off the Fabulous part of it, and to endeavour to bring it back to the Standard of Natural Religion.
Book of his Comentary on Ezechiel he lets us understand;[497] 'That when we depart out of Aegypt we must refine our Inclinations, and change our Delights into Aversion.
But this 'tis toRefine upon Revelation, and grow wiser than Wisdom!
Previous to the coming of Christ the tendency of the arts was, on the whole, rather to encourage licentiousness and sin than to elevate and refine human nature.
Hence we should by all possible means purify and refine our organism, so that we may hear the most delicate, the sweetest, the stillest sounds and murmurings of the angels who are about us.
The real benefits which depend on the influence of the softer sex are thus described:-- "One of the peculiar offices of women is to refine society.
Both are classed together as works of amusement; but the first enrich the mind with great and beautiful ideas, and, provided they be not indulged in to an extravagant excess, refine the feelings to generosity and tenderness.
Then shall they triumph, and the British stage Improve her manners and refine her rage, More noble characters expose to view, And draw her finished heroines from you.
The Boccaneri seems to be one of those ladies who refine so much upon debauchery as to make even matrimony enter into their scheme of profligacy.
