Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 23, 2025
Yet, as mixed mathematics correct, without superseding, the pure science, so I do not see why I may not allowably take a sort of pure philosophical view of the Turks and their position, though it be but abstract and theoretical, and require correction when confronted by the event.
He pretended to the faculty of working miracles, and of superseding and altering the ordinary course of nature. There was, beside the Chaldean Zoroaster, a Persian known by the same name, who is said to have been a contemporary of Darius Hystaspes. Thus obscure and general is our information respecting the Babylonians. But it was far otherwise with the Greeks.
Thus the tyrant marked the first emergence of personality supreme within the State, resuming its old forces in an autocratic will, superseding and at the same time consciously controlling the mute, collective, blindly working impulses of previous revolutions. His advent was welcomed as a blessing by the recently developed people of the cities he reduced to peace.
I have said “generally necessary,” for of course there will be exceptional cases, in which such a mode of preparation does not answer, whether from some mistake in carrying it out, or from some special gift superseding it. To many preachers there will be another advantage besides;—such a practice will secure them against venturing upon really extempore matter.
Now if he makes this the state of the question, then he must make a revocation of that word, “I deny an institution, I assent to a prudence.” For the tables were turned with the Zurich divines; they assented to an institution; they denied a prudence; they held an affirmative precept for excommunication, but that it doth not bind ad semper, that the thing is not at all times, nor in all places necessary; that weighty inconveniences may warrant the superseding of it.
In their pursuit of riches, the English are gradually losing sight of higher characteristics; ... our pursuit of railway bubbles and every other frantic speculation of the hour, affords sufficient evidence of the craving after capital superseding every better aspiration, whether for this world or the next." The love of gold threatens to drive everything before it.
Pownal, from whom a quotation has already been presented, speaking of the establishment of this country as a free and sovereign power calls it "A revolution that has stronger marks of divine interposition, superseding the ordinary course of human affairs than any other event which this world has experienced." De Tocqueville, a French writer, speaking of our separation from England, says:
It is a sublimation of the idea familiar to the religious mind, but he gives it a new and larger interpretation; for, in place of the written Word, beyond the social and civic obligation, greater than the accepted moralities, superseding the ecclesiastical virtues, wider than the overworked altruism of Christianity, is the complete ideal of Man, from his roughest force to his finest perception.
Before his death, the houses of the order were to be found in all parts of Europe, and by the ninth century it had become general throughout the Church, almost superseding all other orders. xviii The Roman Roads.
The great world war, still raging as these lines are penned, has furnished untold thousands of examples of courageous action -enough to last until the end of human affairs, but they will go on and on in multiplied form, each day's score superseding those of the day before.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking