Professor Legge, of Oxford, has claimed, from what he regards as valid linguistic proofs, that at a still earlier period than the dynasty of Yao and Shun there existed in China the worship of one God.
They herd together: The common damn'd shun their society, As fiends too foul for converse.
Oh, do not fear that if you helped me now, I should again shun you.
You see we cannot help meeting, Jasper dear, do what you will to shun me.
He introduced himself to me in fact, to my surprise; and although I did all in my power to shun his acquaintance, I could not succeed.
The workers shun the light and make long, covered ways of mud in which they go from place to place.
Like the cricket, cockroaches love the night and shun the daylight.
Reverence thy preceptors: shun the conversation of those whom thou desirest not to resemble, and receive not in vain the graces which God hath bestowed upon thee.
Were it not to shun prolixity, I could enumerate a thousand such like adventures, which, conform to the dictate and verdict of the verse, have by that manner of lot-casting encounter befallen to the curious researchers of them.
But the more the tormenting friends shun thee, go thou the nearer to them.
The center of violation(161) supposed that through mere pride the foundation of the Covenant and Testament could be destroyed and that the righteous ones would shun and disobey the ordinances of God.
We perceived no crocodiles in the raudal; these animals seem to shun the noise of cataracts.
I have observed above, that the crocodiles, and, if not the zancudos, at least the mosquitos, generally shun the black waters.
These rivers, like the Orinoco, cross thick forests, but the tipulary insects, as well as the crocodiles, shun the proximity of the black waters.
There they enjoy some rest; the mosquitoes appearing to shun air loaded with vapours.
Then with a strong instinct to maintain her self-control and shun a perilous nearness to her hidden sorrow, she changed the subject.
Indeed I shall be one in heart hereafter, even though you may not permit me to enjoy your society, for you may very naturally wish to shun one who cannot fail to remind you of so much that is painful.
Mark my words, it is only a flight, not an escape, for every evil you sought to shun would have been intensified and rendered eternal.
Instead of going direct to Gettysburg, we took a different road, in order to shun our pursuers, as the news of my escape had created general excitement.
She was moved to escape simply to shun her master's evil designs; his brutal purposes were only frustrated by the utmost resolution.
Eight and a half months before escaping, Washington had been secreted in order toshun both master and auction-block.
These the part Perform of eager monitors, and goad The soul more sharply than with points of steel, Her enemies to shun or to resist.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
Leaving this man to shun or be overtaken by Fate, we return to Glendower.
If you love liberty and your country, shun what has destroyed them.
We encounter opposition at each step,--the only question is not toshun it.
We are rejoiced with actions that are useful to us, and shun those that may injure us.
Philosophy ought not to shun it then, but its duty is to approach it only with extreme prudence and a severe method.
No, I earnestly advise man to escape suffering as much as he can, to understand well his interest, to shun unhappiness and seek happiness.
Men shun him at length as they would do an infection, and he is never crossed in his way if there be but a lane to escape him.
He grumbles at the ingratitude of men that shun him for his kindness, but indeed it is his own fault, for he is too great an upbraider.
I shall never, therefore, fear or shun things which, for aught I know, maybe good, before evils which I know to be evils.
The use of these entities is in some cases only provisional with us, to be abandoned on the advent of true knowledge; for religion does not shun the light of true science.
Do you, then, shun, in that one thing, the example of your betters: and I hope those children will shun it too.
But if I only am claimed by the Teucrians for combat, if that is your pleasure, and I am the barrier to the public good, Victory does not so hate and shun my hands that I should renounce any enterprise for so great a hope.
But when at thy departure the wind hath borne thee to the Sicilian coast, and the barred straits of Pelorus open out, steer for the left-hand country and the long circuit of the seas on the left hand; shun the shore and water on thy right.
But he that shuns trifles must shun the world; out of whose reverend heaps of substance and austerity I can and will ere long single or tumble out as brainless and passionate fooleries as ever panted in the bosom of the most ridiculous lover.
How oft wished I night would not give thee place, Nor morning stars shun thy uprising face.
