| 单词 | aeonian |
| 例句 | His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away. Four Weird Tales If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood? Creation and Its Records With what wings Would she come forth to greet the aeonian summer? The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance—for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare It might be very painful to renounce a long-cherished anticipation; but the necessity of doing so could not be received as a sufficient reason for adhering to the old unconditional use of the word aeonian. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 For we miss to hear the fairy tale of time, the aeonian chant radiant with light and color which the spirit prolongs. AE in the Irish Theosophist Tennyson, on the other hand, was already finding material for poetry in the world as seen through microscope and telescope, and as developed through "aeonian" processes of evolution. Alfred Tennyson There was a majesty and peace about her airy domination, which Donal himself would have found difficult, had he known her state, to bring into harmony with her aeonian death. Sir Gibbie To invest them with aeonian privileges, is in effect, and by its results, to distrust and to insult the Deity. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 We are not summoned as to a choice of two different arrangements that may suit different tastes, but to a grave question as to what is the sense and operation of the word aeonian. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Evil would not be evil, if it had that power of self-subsistence which is imputed to it in supposing its aeonian life to be co-eternal with that which crowns and glorifies the good. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Man, again, has a certain aeonian life; possibly ranging somewhere about the period of seventy years assigned in the Psalms. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 I myself know nothing certain for or against this belief; but, supposing the case to be as it is represented, then this would be the aeonian period of these animals, considered as individuals. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Among trees, in like manner, the oak, the cedar, the yew, are notoriously of very slow growth, and their aeonian period is unusually long as regards the individual. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 B. But if it be an excess of blindness which can overlook the aeonian differences amongst even neutral entities, much deeper is that blindness which overlooks the separate tendencies of things evil and things good. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 What was meant by the aeonian punishments in the next world? Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 |
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