In short, this surprising thing was undesigned because it took place, and has taken place ever since!
Yet it is essentially undesigned and uncontrolled by man.
Like the daily cooperation of living men, this cooperation of past, present and future is essential to the well-being of mankind, and yet it is undesigned and unorganized.
But neither the interest nor the importance of this inquiry is exhausted when we have established the undesigned origin of vitrified sites.
Such undesigned coincidences, as we may venture to call them, are the following.
The strength of the argument from undesigned coincidences of style is much increased when they are found side by side with thoughts and expressions which can only have come from a great original writer.
A special argument for the truth of the Scripture history of the apostle Paul may be drawn from the numerous undesigned coincidences between the events recorded in the book of Acts and those referred to in the epistles.
How many instances there are in which the most cogent and strongly-urged arguments are lost, while the quiet and undesigned force of example succeeds.
Now, if at this point the question be asked: "Are we responsible for this undesigned influence?
No small portion of it is to be traced to the deleterious elements which mingle with the undesigned influences which emanate from many of the professors of Christ's religion.
The fact that Acts does not depend upon St. Paul's writings and nevertheless shows many undesigned points of contact with them, leads us to a very important conclusion.
The strongest argument for the Pauline authorship lies in the undesigned coincidences between Ephesians and Romans.
These undesigned coincidences tend to verify both the narratives.
The death of Zebedee is nowhere mentioned in the gospels; yet an undesigned coincidence, and proof of the veracity of the Evangelists, is evident by comparing this place with others, in which his death is tacitly alluded to.
This was an adventure indeed unlooked for, and perfectly undesigned by me; though I was not so past the merry part of life, as to forget how to behave, when a fop so blinded by his appetite should not know an old woman from a young.
We shall weigh their undesigned concordances, we shall analyse the congruity of their message with the facts which such a message should explain.
The leading modern cases, of which Stainton Moses and Mrs. Piper may be taken as types, are closely analogous, presenting many undesigned coincidences, some of which come out only on close examination.
Towards that transmutation each separate fragment of our evidence, withundesigned concordance, indisputably tends.
In the latter instance, he doubtless inflicted a severer wound than he intended, and thus put anundesigned period to his existence.
It appears probable that he was aided in his imposition by the narrative of Fuerbach, one of the judges of Bavaria, who adopted some theory on the subject, which he supported with gross, though perhaps undesigned misrepresentation.
But these facts, resting on the best evidence which anthropology can offer, and corroborated by the undesigned coincidence of testimony from every quarter, are not what most students in this science want to find.
His place therefore was generally without, and his intrusion into Mr. Nelson’s room was undesigned on my part.
It was a plain old-fashioned house, though already graced with some of the undesigned picturesqueness due to additions of various dates, when William Nelson acquired the property in 1860.
Suffice it to say, thatundesigned and collateral evidence in corroboration of it has been increasing to the present day; and that the following brief review of some of the early events will afford a fair specimen of the whole.
Their letters on the subject, though very indefinite, contained several important, though undesigned admissions, strongly corroborating the book.
With an Appendix, containingUndesigned Coincidences between the Gospels, Acts, and Josephus.
The financial advantages of the education offered by the church became obvious after the Norman Conquest, and arose out of an undesigned circumstance.
It is worthy of special note that theundesigned evidence of official documents often exposes the true character of Tudor testimony.
But the best testimony for the truth of the reports as to actual belief in the facts is the undesigned coincidence of evidence from all ages and quarters.
Mr. Tylor then adduces 'the test of recurrence,' of undesigned coincidence in testimony, as Millar had already argued in the last century.
But a few remarks may be made on three subjects, those of undesigned agreements, the importance of which is not obvious at first sight; the alleged mistakes in the Old Testament; and the effect of modern discoveries.
On the other hand, there are several undesigned agreements between the Gospels, which are a strong argument in favour of their accuracy.
And from this it follows that an undesigned agreement between two statements--provided of course it is too minute to be accidental--is a sure sign of truthfulness.
It is that if we compare the biography of St. Paul given in the Acts with the letters of that Apostle, many of them written to the very Churches and persons described there, we shall find numerous undesigned agreements between them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undesigned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
