Robertson, "Christianity refinesit and respects it.
Christianity does not denaturalize, but only sanctifies and refines according to the laws of nature.
Love refines a Man's Behaviour, but makes a Woman's ridiculous.
What Actions can express the entire Purity of Thought which refines and sanctifies a virtuous Man?
The finest Works of Invention and Imagination are of very little Weight, when put in the Balance with what refines and exalts the rational Mind.
Union with Him refines selfishness, and makes men quick to feel another's sorrows and joys as theirs, after the pattern of Him who makes the case of God's fugitives His own.
Wherefore mourning hearts may stay themselves on this assurance, that they will never lose the dear ones whom they have loved in Christ, and that death itself but changes the manner of the communion, and refines the tie.
Here march’d in arms the Halizonian band, Whom Odius and Epistrophus command, From those far regions where the sun refines The ripening silver in Alybean mines.
Character merges into temperament; the nervous system refines itself into intellect.
With this interest, in the Biographia Literaria, he refines Schelling's 'Philosophy of Nature' into a theory of art.
He subjects his appetites, refines his tastes, subdues his feelings, controls his speech, and deems every other person as good as himself.
Plan and performance will alike appeal to imagination and be appreciated through it; so that what trains imagination refines the very stuff that life is made of.
Reflection refines particular sentiments by bringing them into sympathy with all rational life.
Footnote 14: He refines indeed so much, as to make him, on this very account, much inferior to the beautiful simplicity of his original.
A man of pleasure, though not always so scrupulous as he should be, and as one day he will wish he had been, refines at least his pleasures by taste, accompanies them with decency, and enjoys them with dignity.
Mr. Edison has much improved the musical records familiar throughout the world; these are now produced in molds of gold with a delicacy that refines away the scratchiness of tone so unpleasant in earlier cylinders.
It is the love of art and literature which refines and beautifies mankind.
The picture on the wall refines us, the open book fills the mind with a hundred delicate, footless fancies.
By the method now employed, the first treatment refines the core, and on the second treatment, the sleeves are pushed on the hub and at the same time hardened.
Reheating this work beyond the critical temperature of the core refines this core, closes the grain and makes it tough, but leaves the case very brittle; in fact, more so than it was before.
Character merges into temperament: the nervous system refines itself into intellect.
With this interest, in the Biographia Literaria, he refines Schelling's "Philosophy of Nature" into a theory of art.
Hence, they do not feel as we do, and are often inaccessible to the anguish of pain which refines human nature by sometimes raising it to the point of heroism.
In this scene, our superiority to Electra, in the knowledge we possess, refines and softens our compassion, blending it with hope.
The chapel, or rather the church, which is of great proportions and designed by Andrea Orcagna, the primitive painter, refines upon the consecrated type or even quite glorifies it.
And yet when you sit by a sick bed, and look into a face whiter than the pillow on which it rests, do you not sometimes mark how that very suffering refines the nature that bears it so meekly?
It refines through art, music and the drama--giving voice and expression to every noble thought.
It was not the hospitality of pride or ostentation, but of the heart; the welcome which the soul ungrudgingly gives, and which delights and refines the receiver.
There is nothing which so polishes and refines the character as the influence of religion.
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