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Example sentences for "several passages"

  • A sacred Eclogue, compos'd of several Passages of Isaiah the Prophet.

  • We are now entering upon the Sixth Book of Paradise Lost, in which the Poet describes the Battel of Angels; having raised his Readers Expectation, and prepared him for it by several Passages in the preceding Books.

  • Let the judicious Reader compare what Longinus has observed [6] on several Passages in Homer, and he will find Parallels for most of them in the Paradise Lost.

  • Several passages in the Sonnets suggest that Pembroke must have conferred substantial gifts upon Shakespeare--for example, that expression "wealth" in Sonnet xxxvii.

  • He speaks in several passages of stages and different places of bliss; and this was a universally diffused idea (e.

  • In the Epistle of Barnabas we read in several passages (I.

  • In several passages Irenæus has designated the permitting of evil as kind generosity on the part of God, see, e.

  • In several passages of Ariosto, especially the visit of Astolfo to the moon, we trace a resemblance not wholly fortuitous.

  • Several passages might be alleged in proof, but I have not noted them all down.

  • His disappointed hopes give a not unpleasing melancholy to several passages.

  • This bias of the court of Hanover is intimated in several passages.

  • There are, indeed, from this or from other causes, several passages in the Treatise on Education to which we cannot give an unhesitating assent.

  • She seems, indeed, in several passages, little else than a tragic coquette, and one of the most odious kind.

  • There then follows a quotation of several passages treating of the exalted Messiah.

  • In the New Testament, it is alluded to in several passages.

  • In harmony with the Song of Solomon, Isaiah announces in several passages, that the converted Gentiles shall, at some future period, labour for the restoration of Israel; compare the remarks on Is.

  • In several passages, the word Dog is employed as a metaphor for scoffers, or unclean persons, or sometimes for those who did not belong to the Church, whether Jewish or Christian.

  • Allusion is made to the speed and agility of the Deer in several passages.

  • This custom of the Wolf is mentioned in several passages of Holy Scripture, such as that in Jer.

  • Since I am thus insensibly engaged in Sacred Writ, I cannot forbear making an extract of several passages which I have always read with great delight in the book of Job.

  • Since I am thus insensibly engaged in Sacred Writ, I cannot forbear making an Extract of several Passages which I have always read with great Delight in the Book of Job.

  • Especially is this the case when such a statement is directly opposed to several passages in the Iliad, which clearly recognise the presence of the Phrygians in Asia.

  • Or again to several passages in the Diomedeia where deities show themselves almost or quite without disguise and even take an active part in the fighting.

  • It is commonly held that this originally denoted the 'bride-price' paid by the bridegroom to the relatives of the bride; and there is no doubt that the word is so used in several passages.

  • He is in several passages said to have taken his three steps for the benefit of man.

  • This in itself implies different generations, but earlier gods are also expressly referred to in several passages.

  • The four Vedas are often mentioned, the gods Brahma and Vishnu being in several passages described as having created them.

  • Several passages in the Old Testament appear to be in the writer's mind.

  • These two are found in combination in several passages, both in the Old Testament and in the New (2 Sam.

  • It is contended in some quarters that the similarity of thought and expression in several passages is so great as to prove such knowledge, and it is argued that such knowledge tells against the genuineness of the Epistle.


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