And the doctrine of Plato's Republic respecting marriage, startling as a comment on the manners of his age, by no means expresses the odious state of mind which would be implied in its substitution now for the sanctities of private life.
But it will not be forgotten that Socrates, in whom Greek religion culminated, avowedly based his reform on the substitution of moral for physical studies.
In the largest and most important part of Italy however, even such a substitution of impure elements for pure; but the population was visibly on the decline.
The mere substitution of the definite for the indefinite article is capable of changing entirely the meaning of a sentence.
This was nothing less startling than the substitution of the young and handsome bachelor brother, for the tried and trusty elder brother, in the high and important post of Castellano of Ravaldino.
After some difficulty it was agreed upon that the word "patient" should be used instead of the title of General, which caused so much offence, and this substitution got rid of the difficulty.
In reality, what this generous hypothesis came to, whenever there was no question of text criticism involved, was a substitution of the human ideal for the divine execution.
Imbeciles and suckling women to be dieted as the aged, "with or without the substitution of milk porridge and bread at breakfast or supper or at both meals.
General Out-relief Prohibitory Order, and for the substitution of an outdoor labour test for the more effective test of destitution afforded by the offer of relief in the workhouse.
He has an inner vision of what might have been, of what ought to be, and he helps on the good cause by the simple substitution of a nuance.
In such cases of substitution the vowels of the word which is to be read are written in the Hebrew text with the consonants of the word which is not to be read.
Substitution of vegetable ivory for metal in buttons was attempted.
Another change that came in with a rush upon the discovery of a battery with insignificant weight, compact form, and great capacity, was the substitution of electricity for animal power for the movement of all vehicles.
It is the gradual substitution of cant or flash terms for words which truly characterize their objects.
Now, if there is anything on which the biological sciences have prided themselves in these latter years it is the substitution of quantitative for qualitative formulae.
Brownson used to preach at one time to a little handful of persons, in a small upper room, where some of them got from him their first lesson about the substitution of reverence for idolatry, in dealing with the books they hold sacred.
The substitution of the French language, in its highest polish, for the uncouth Latinity of the Aristotelians, was another advantage of which the Cartesian school legitimately availed themselves.
Some of these changes are for the better, as the substitution of Astyanax for an unknown Molossus of the Greek tragedian, the supposed son of Andromache by Pyrrhus.
Creation by the voice is almost as great a refinement of thought as the substitution of creation by the word for creation by muscular effort.
Few of the sacerdotal colleges went beyond the substitution of their own feudal gods for Atûmû.
An example of the formal element of change which appeared, consists in the substitution of blank verse and the Spenserian stanza for the classical couplets of the French school.
Nothing indeed can be more interesting than to note the touches, the substitution of which measured the whole distance between mediocrity and excellence.
For the bold and picturesque substitution of the effect for the cause in the "bright death quiver'd" 'cf.
The substitution of natural religion for revealed, in Tindal, Christianity as old as the Creation.
It is from this time that we may date the actual dethronement of Edward the Confessor from the position of "patron saint" of England and the definite substitution of St George in his place.
Substitution of another queen is not attended with the same effect, if she is introduced into the hive within the first twelve hours after removal of the reigning one.
But to make the substitution effectual, it was necessary to procure queens at pleasure; a secret reserved for M.
He realized at last, that if his theory of substitution were correct the writer had struck the key to the right of the three frequent letters.
Across the apartment swings still a great tortoise-shell, which served the royal infant for a cradle,--saved afterward from the furies of the Revolution by the substitution of a false shell in its place.
Their losers speak for a substitution of coffee and bread and fresh milk in lieu of all remaining courses, and beat a hasty retreat from the scene.
It consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming, and with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I AM.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substitution" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
