In the Middle Ages every town, small no less than large, was a more or less self-sufficing organism, intellectually and industrially, and was not essentially dependent on the outside world for its social sustenance.
Each town was really a self-sufficing entity, both materially and intellectually.
Should I have left my books, my studious calm, my pleasant and sufficing tasks, to listen to One who seemed so little likely to instruct me?
Without sufficing assurance, he would have no part in the fate either of the uncle he disliked or the mother he loved.
Footnote 14: The man who has chosen his friend thus, is hardly himself one to act without sufficing reason, or take vengeance without certain proof of guilt.
He who has sufficing ground and refuses to act is weak; but the ground that will satisfy the populace, of which the commonplace critic is the fair type, will not satisfy either the man of conscience or of wisdom.
To Hamlet's condition and behaviour, his mother, her past and her present, is the only and sufficing key.
Problems from which even the most self-sufficing mind cannot escape harass the intellect and weigh on the spirit of the civilised world.
How is it that, while the former seems the only right, reasonable, and all-sufficing thing, it should yet come more naturally to believe in the latter?
Nor was she without her reward, and that a sufficing one--in the love and gratitude with which Leopold clung to her.
At the same time he saw plain enough that even if he gave his body to be burned, it were no sufficing assurance of his Christianity: nothing could satisfy him of that less than the conscious presence of the perfect charity.
Criticism, however subtle, however suggestive, however luminous, will not bridge over the gap between the past and the present, will not supply the sufficing knowledge.
Let me be heard in the king's council, and prove to sufficing judges what this iron can do for England.
We must suppose that a self-sufficing community might at one time, as well as at another, be drawn together by formative beliefs.
The culture group of the other type, or kind, is a self-sufficing community.
Hence, the regulations made by parents for their family are not called laws, since the family is not a self-sufficing society.
It is made by the proper authority in a community, that is, as here understood, in a self-sufficing community, which has its own means for attaining its end and is independent in its own order of other societies.
Would it not indeed amount to a sufficing atonement as between man and man?
The less I acknowledge debt or obligation to another; the more I close my eyes to the fact that I did not make myself; the more self-sufficing I feel or imagine myself--the greater I am.
Every gift of God is but a harbinger of his greatest and only sufficing gift--that of himself.
Unfortunately men, educated men, cultivated men in particular, are still so dominated by the older conception of an aloof and self-sufficing reason and knowledge that they refuse to perceive the import of this doctrine.
Pure knowing is alone solitary, and capable of being carried on in complete, self-sufficing independence.
Although we always need the air, yet as natural philosophers we convert the air from an object of our physical need into an object of the self-sufficing activity of thought, i.
Nay, the definitions which are the most sufficing to the religious sentiment are precisely those which give the most offence to the understanding, and which in the process of reflection on religion it denies.
I unconditionally repudiate absolute, immaterial, self-sufficing speculation--that speculation which draws its material from within.
A good and sufficing answer,' returned his lordship, with a smile of satisfaction.
Thus every manor was wholly self-sufficing and self-sustaining, and towns were rendered almost unnecessary.
Only two elements broke the monotony of these self-sufficing agricultural communities.
