| 单词 | similitude |
| 例句 | Thus chapters describe similitudes drawn from, for example, the animal kingdom, nature, human biology, occupations and mythology. What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The diversity of the world outside of the campus is limited and regimented by the similitude of the vocation. In-work dining at Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook causes spike in divorce rate 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s the similitude of the swinging/casting motion, and the fact that the ball and the fly go farther when you move smoothly. The putter, the pint & the Hairy Mary: A golf and angling odyssey in Western Ireland 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z But despite these efforts and their popularity, a similitude often prevails: D.J.’s spinning electronic music, talks, art-house movies and the indispensable cash bar. Arts: After-Hours Programs at Bay Area Museums: An Uneven Mix 2010-04-17T00:02:00Z “The similitude across such an immense scale is astonishing,” Dr. Galison said. The Milky Way’s Black Hole Comes to Light 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z In its enforced similitude, it became a kind of social glue, stitching together a new national identity across a vast, growing and otherwise diverse nation. How Netflix Is Deepening Our Cultural Echo Chambers 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Good science doesn't require friendship or similitude, only an agreement that science is good. TV Pick: 'Mythbusters' goes out, probably with a bang 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But plenty of writers can conjure exciting similitudes. The Secular Psalmist 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z For those who doubt resurrection, as the pre-Islamic Arabs did, the Qur’an offers the similitude of how God brings dead and barren land back to life with rain. Ramadan, Day 18: What Is Faith? 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z With still more reason, the Qur'an should be read in the same way, for is it not written: "God setteth forth these similitudes to men that haply they may be admonished." The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z We could show similitudes between this wedding and some others in civilized lands, but it is much too serious a matter to be cynical about. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z This singular little bird agrees more in its general character with Troglodytes, than with any other established genus; yet with this its similitude is but slight. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z First of all write thou my mandates and similitudes; and the rest, as I will show thee, so shalt thou write.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The exact similitude did not occur; but he flung the end of his cigar into the river instead, and sat brooding mournfully for the rest of the way. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z Scores of other similitudes between Saturn and Abraham could here be introduced did space permit. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The ancient Hindoo fables also indicate how imagery arose; they speak of the god Ram, “who, having no shape, is described by a similitude.” The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It can scarcely be pretended that when they saw a visible being with “feet” and a “hand,” they “saw no similitude.” The Christian Creed; or, What it is Blasphemy to Deny 2012-03-14T02:00:26.310Z There is little doubt that it can be connected with the early Arabian, Assyrian, and Egyptian, by the similitude of the processes common to all. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z Its language bears an extraordinary similitude to the preamble of the Constitution of the United States, in its spirit and idea. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z His Socialism had lost some of its sharp definitions, some of its logical simplicity, but it had come to bear a closer similitude to life. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Many of the Creole negroes express the greatest antipathy to them, on account of their similitude to a cat; and to offer to them such a repast would, no doubt, be deemed an insult. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z In truth, a sensible similitude; which the wit of our Occidental ladies has never yet lighted on! Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z A Provençal poet, called Marcabres or Marcabrus, has been placed among the versifiers, but none of his works bear the least similitude to the subject; and, moreover, the language itself is an objection. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z In the case of Chrishna of India, in particular, the similitude is very striking in nearly every feature of the whole story. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Such are, more especially, similitudes and analogies, in their widest sense,—which are too often neglected, even by those who admit the necessity of recognizing them where they may be shown to exist. On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera 2012-01-17T03:00:21.933Z Whatever there was to be done and ordered in the Church from the beginning to the end was, by the force of the similitude with Himself thus used, included in these words. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z A similitude might likewise be made out for Belgium and Germany. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z The first predilection I felt in favour of one too dear—was a faint similitude I thought I discovered between him and Woodley. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z Many fine heads, like bowls, the Brazier made, And thus his own similitude portrayed; He set one upside down above our heads, Which keeps us all continually afraid. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z No amount of inconstancy, provided its limits be fixed, is irreconcilable with the doctrine of specific similitudes. On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera 2012-01-17T03:00:21.933Z If a mere landlubber may hazard the similitude, the captain will always show his qualities whether he is on the bridge of a liner or in a rowboat. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z He saw what was not there by that creative touch of mind which transforms an object by increasing its similitude to something else. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z From a distance this natural viaduct admits to minds however stubbornly practical the similitude of a giant's arm. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Now that it was broad daylight the events of the preceding night, with its dangers and its darkness, had more the similitude of some dreadful dream than a stern reality. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z In fact we were a kind of Corsican brothers in similitude, for, if I remember rightly, they were twins like Jill and me. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Parallel similitudes which, however, mean no more than the eternity of the gods, could be made even among the Arians of Iran. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z Does a mountain or a rock bear similitude to the figures of human beings or of animals? Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z Its thought buried itself in similitudes and allusions. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Further on, in another trench, they found one side of a boat, mouldered almost into the similitude of the sand in which it had been embedded for very many years. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Then follows a similitude of the haystack, sculptured in bas-relief, and encircled with these words, "The Birthplace of American Foreign Missions, 1806." Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z There must be some similitude in all things that are True! Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z His countenance, clear, expressive, and variable—indicating the emotion which predominated at the moment with exact similitude. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z And the Light floweth forth in similitude, and indraweth Itself in unity; which we perceive, beyond the reason, in that high point of our understanding which is bare and turned within. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z What she saw at those moments were most frequently the similitude of some absent person, or images of the future, which were always afterwards realized. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z Among the interesting applications of similarity is the case of a shadow, as here shown, where the light is the center of similitude. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z There is, however, a strong similitude between these two illustrious individuals. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z But all habitude is produced through imitation and similitude. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z However these various similitudes might be intended as compliments, they afforded no gratification to Uncle Philip, whose secret opinion was, that if Sam looked like anybody, it was undoubtedly Paul Jones. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z This similitude is so close, that after a description of the latter, there need not be much space devoted to a narrative of the sport in our great Eastern Empire. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z If the ratio of similitude is 1, the similar figures become symmetric figures, and they are therefore congruent. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Mark the course of this Bishop Hughs for the last few years, and you will be struck with the exact similitude which in every feature exists between itself and that of Rodin. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z The struggle which ensued was something doubtless without a parallel, or anything else in the way of similitude, in the history of single combats. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z For the rest of the matter, as I say, the difference of aspect produced by the difference of intensity cut short very soon my vision of similitude. Within the Rim and Other Essays 2011-09-16T02:00:22.793Z To us it appears there is a striking similitude. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z The mathematical arrangement is here shown, the lens inclosing the center of similitude. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z There is a great similitude between the modern German, and the Popish moral philosophy. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Several of the capitals also in other plates bear an evident similitude to the expanded top of trees with their branching foliage cut off or compressed. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z Better be an infidel than a wholesale murderer of the similitude of the Lord. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z It is called bière de Mars;—a proof that the right season is known for "corrupting barley into a certain similitude of wine." Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z It is a threefold collection of visions, commandments, and similitudes. Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels 2011-08-30T02:00:32.823Z He strongly reminded me of characters between whom and himself there existed a strange similitude; but comparisons might offend the delicate sensibilities of some of my readers. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z There is no such similitude in the fourth Gospel at all. Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:31.587Z Man was created "after thine own image and similitude." My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z This strange similitude is not noticed in Dr. Ferrier's summing up of Sterne's sinning in this line. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z The jealousy which made him so cruel had no similitude with her finer and keener feelings. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z But the similitude, however striking, is not extended further, and, while individuals die a natural death, nations are supposed always to come to a violent end. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Finally comes that rich hue for which no exact similitude exists. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z He is a spirit and has no similitude. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z No; for, referring once more to the similitude, what drove your children away? Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z Dil’s similitudes were very limited, but Cinderella and the fairy godmother did come into her mind. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z There is an air of antiquity about this, and the cities of Mexico, which has no similitude in the United States. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Truth, in sculpture, means an exact similitude of some living form, chiselled in stone or marble. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z They were deliberately chosen to create similitudes between certain books, and mark their connection with each other. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z The snow, which had fallen heavily for some days previously, was, wherever it could be, churned into filthy slush, and where undisturbed, was begrimed more into the similitude of soot-heaps than anything else. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Or a conventional arrangement of words may be adopted which will convey the idea of certain dependent clauses, as those expressing similitude, as is often the case in Mexican. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z Madam, truce with your similitudes—no, you met her husband, and did not ask him for her. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z "The study of unsophisticated nature yields the ideal, or similitude of things seen; and this study, impressing the recollection, affords in due time a conception of abstract beauty itself to curious and sensitive minds." The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z "A similitude"—"A notable comparison"—occur frequently just as the writer finds them again and again in Bacon's handwriting in volumes which he possesses. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z The Bull became the god Apis, who was worshipped under that similitude. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z With this view he had formed a beautiful series of works; and, whilst he explained it, I could not help conceiving that I saw before me a similitude of moral culture. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z The signature went both by similitude and by contrary. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Sabina's hair which was black as the raven's wing, when she retired to rest on that fearful night, had changed to the similitude of extreme age when they found her in the morning. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z His memory was so stored with materials, and these so diverse, that in similitude or with comparison he passed from subject to subject. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z At this time the righteous Nephites in the land of Zarahemla were keeping the law of Moses strictly, so far as its outward ordinances were concerned, and understandingly with regard to its symbolism and similitudes. An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2011-06-06T02:00:07.650Z They exhausted their invention in similitudes, and their opinions seemed still farther to diverge. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z The similitude between her own destiny and that of this unhappy exile could not fail to be observed. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z She forgot not their similitude in age and sex, and delighted to prolong the dream of future confidence and friendship to take place between them. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z However hideous the conception is, it is the result of the license allowed to poets to use partial similitudes. Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India 2011-05-31T02:00:29.133Z Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2011-06-06T02:00:07.650Z The rugged verse of Æschylus had no place in his temperament, much as he admired it; the polished diction of Virgil bore more similitude to Leighton's inspiration. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z It is only concerning matters which leave our souls free and unshackled that we notice similitudes and connection. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z He denied the reality of that passion which claimed a similitude or sympathy of minds as one of its ingredients. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z It shows the superiority of modern languages over ancient; Christian ideas over pagan; living similitudes of God over bronze and marble. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z And then the angel spake, saying, This thing is a similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace and truth. An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2011-06-06T02:00:07.650Z There is a delicacy and harmonious blending of correspondences which are in perfect keeping; but if you sully the eyebrows with blackness, you destroy all similitude of feature and expression, and almost present a deformity. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z To complete the similitude, after the victory there was a triumph. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z From the edge of a pool dimpling the turf white herons rose, flitting slowly across an orange sky, where cloud fringes burned in the similitude of scarlet tulips. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The conditions into which we were born necessitate our expressing and realising our mental, moral, and religious conceptions through sensuous imagery and similitude. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Doubtless some similitude to them may here and there be seen. The Discovery of America by the Northmen, 985-1015 2011-04-05T02:00:12.443Z Unfortunately, the similitude between her ladyship and Dido ends here; the classic fair one exhibited, as we are told, the most delicate fondness for the son of her lover. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Of this I have spoken in a plan, a correspondence and similitude, but not in its true form; nor have I revealed the Word in Truth, but as the Mystery of the Ineffable. The Gnostic Crucifixion 2011-04-02T02:00:13.847Z This similitude in more ways than one; for at the head of that glancing line there were serpents, though in human shape, making approach to what they intended as victims. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Personally, as already stated, she resembled her mother; intellectually, there was also a similitude. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Note the similitudes of Vine and Vineyard in Old Testament. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z But in either case the music is the music, and is like nothing else; it is no representation or similitude of anything whatsoever. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Or, in other words, the planetary systems are to be changed, purified, refined, exalted and glorified, in the similitude of the resurrection, by which means all physical evil or imperfection will be done away. Key to the Science of Theology 2011-03-05T03:00:29Z Between these two, aiming at like ends, there was much similitude otherwise. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z "In portraits, the grace and one may add the likeness consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature." Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z What do we actually know respecting those two men, whose masks, the preserved similitudes of the living features with which they once fronted the world, are now before us? The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z I was much struck with the many points of similitude on seeing the British wild cat exhibited by the Duke of Sutherland at the first cat show at the Crystal Palace in July, 1871. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z All is as the similitude and shadow of death. Key to the Science of Theology 2011-03-05T03:00:29Z Looking at the allegiance of the respective shires to the two parties that divided the nation, one cannot help observing the wonderful similitude of their sentiments then as now—almost a parallelism. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z He represents it as springing from our present bodies as a germ from a seed; and this would seem to imply organization; though we must not infer too much from a mere rhetorical similitude. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Speculation into the metaphysical is the invariable accompaniment of strong feeling; and the moral nature of man would starve upon such chopped straw as the mere intellectual relations of similitude and succession. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Not in vain have they pierced space as well as time and found “a vast similitude interlocking all.” The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z Its organs of thought, speech, sight, hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling, &c., all exist in their order, as in the physical body; the one being the exact similitude of the other. Key to the Science of Theology 2011-03-05T03:00:29Z As the road retires from the beach, the honey-combed cliff’s assume the similitude of massive wads and battlements, every where pierced with loopholes and embrasures. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z To return from this long similitude to Bertrand de Born: he concluded his stormy career in a manner very characteristic of the times; for he turned monk, and died in the odour of sanctity. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z Often in after years he told me, in familiar conversation, that what afforded him some small consolation was the similitude between his own fate and that of the late King Louis Philippe. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z “Interlocked in a vast similitude” indeed are these inner & outer truths of our lives. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z We are accustomed to their shifting similitudes, their inability to express themselves, their pretensions, and their good nature. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z The similitudes are undoubtedly of different authorship from the rest of the book, and certain portions of the book are derived from the Book of Noah. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z In states of deep sorrow or strong trial, when the heart turns from the natural world, hopeless of aid or consolation, truth often comes in dreams and similitudes. The Home Mission 2011-02-12T03:00:30.217Z No two were dressed exactly alike, though there was a general similitude of costume among them, especially in the particular articles of broad-brimmed hats, and wide-legged trowsers of velveteen. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z My eyes were, in truth, fixed on these fair, fearless creatures, and they had suggested already twenty fanciful similitudes, when I was roused by his question. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z This trifling conflict exhibits no unapt similitude of one of the aspects of the great evil conflict, the edge of which he was then approaching. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z But the waning light of a glorious day still clung to the sky, in which an evening star had opened its eye, and even Bayswater, that valley of similitude, wore beauty of a sort. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Whether it was that she somehow saw some lurking analogical similitude between that remarkably slender, and gracefully cut little pint-decanter, brimfull of light, golden wine, or not, there is no absolute telling now. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z In this verse the holy prophet comforts those that are weak in faith by two beautiful similitudes, excellently adapted to the purpose. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z And he said, With Moses will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently; ... and the similitude of Jehovah shall he behold.” The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets 2010-12-20T17:11:50.233Z However, if one closes his mental eyes to this similitude, the flesh is most toothsome. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. But oh, how delightful after Queen’s Road, Bayswater, and the labyrinths of similitude. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z The new canal rather diminishes the force of such similitudes. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise The blossom falls and the fruit withers and decays; but here the similitude fails, for, though lost for the present, the season returns, the tree vegetates anew, and the blossom again puts forth. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams "Your favour has even hit the name, in finding a similitude for the crag," said the captain. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico Thus both are hortatory writings, the one argumentative in form, the other prophetic, after the manner of later Old Testament prophets whose messages came in visions and similitudes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The eschatology is similar to that taught in the similitudes of the Book of Enoch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The shadows multiplied the tale of the dead that the head-boards kept, each similitude askew in the moonlight on the turf below the slanting monument. The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories They had evidently been on the point of knocking, for Miss Arkwright's right hand was raised in the air: the projected knock had assumed the similitude of a blessing—or a curse. The Gay Adventure A Romance Under the similitude of a wolf and fox two fugitive junkers of the Sickingen party discourse together. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Drugs against poisons or darts have no relation to, no similitude with, the action of magnetical bodies. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments His book is divided into three parts containing visions, commands, similitudes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The nation consists of two aboriginal and distinct races, differing, at an earlier period, as much from each other as both are similarly removed in similitude from Europeans. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II But Israel saw no similitude, only he heard a voice. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Moses impressed it upon Israel that when God spake to them out of the midst of the fire they saw no manner of similitude, but only heard His voice. Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments Thus the same mass is variously worked up and transformed into very many similitudes. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments It was, as if the image of some departed friend was before her, and she was endeavoring to find some similitude. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Also, since the curves at P and p are equally inclined to the directrix, P and p are corresponding points and the line Pp must pass through the centre of similitude. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Homer painted with graphic fidelity and incomparable force, often with extraordinary beauty, the appearances of nature; but it was as illustrations, or for the purpose of similitude only, that he did so. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments The wheels appeared, but presently turned to the similitude of blood-red spots. Carnival If any similitude to the Christian’s fleeing from the wrath to come must be sought in ancient days, it will be found in the history of Lot, not of Abraham. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews The geranium beds were bare and brown, but the lawn was still a velvety green and the belt of evergreen trees presented a similitude of summer. A Question of Marriage Do we not avoid as much as possible all such similitudes, as being derogatory to our notions of the Supreme? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 By pursuing the analogies of nature, the human mind reduces to order the vagaries of the imagination, and bodies them forth in forms of loveliness and in similitudes of heaven. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. We had greatly hoped to have enriched our sketch book with a similitude of one of those rudders, but alas, the most diligent search and enquiry was vain. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West But at any rate our poet has carried the similitude too far. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Or as another psalmist, in the same spirit, prays: "That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace." Oriental Women To have the charge of a casket of jewels through the thieves' quarter of London was the constant similitude that rose to Beecher's mind as he descended the stairs at her side. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day I had heard and read a great deal of the Horse-shoe falls, but there is now no similitude of one to be seen. Notes on a Tour Through the Western part of The State of New York In those places, without being remarked by any, I join in whatever goes forward, work my passions into a similitude of frivolous earnestness, shout as they shout, and condemn as they happen to disapprove. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Wax itself is a substance that has no similitude to any other known. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Contrasted with the pallor of death the dreadful designs took on the similitude of living forms. Command As the iron can move upward to the loadstone because both have similar natures, so man can transcend his own nature and move towards God when his potential similitude to God is realized. The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors If he had once been otherwise long association had roughened him to their own similitude. The Portal of Dreams Many of the orchids exhibit a most singular similitude to animals and beautiful birds in their unspeakable and sweet variety. The Pearl of India It gathered into its folded and draped square the 209 evil of the danz�n, the spoiled mustiness of joined and debased bloods, the license under a grotesque similitude of restraint. The Bright Shawl Like the fate that moulded them, they had no similitude in the wide range of this world’s agony for man. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 From all this similitude it is not unreasonable to think that these planets may, like our earth, be the habitation of various orders of living creatures. Logic, Inductive and Deductive This similitude at first sight seems to be a little far-fetched, but it has an exquisite beauty. Notes and Queries, Number 239, May 27, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The theory of centres of similitude and coaxal circles affords elegant demonstrations of the famous problem: To describe a circle to touch three given circles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Pious minds have been disturbed by these similitudes. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal With such fine similitudes the mercy of God prefigures to us, in our infirmity, this truth, that though death would not be taken away, He yet has reduced its power to a mere shadow. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) There were all the features of an old crone, forehead, nose, sunken mouth, nut-cracker jaws, while small streams of lava, hardening as they had flowed, gave the similitude of scanty tresses. Doubloons—and the Girl His face darkened, flattened to the similitude of a serpent about to strike. The Blue Goose The circle on the line joining the internal and external centres of similitude as diameter is named the “circle of similitude.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" "Mr. Leggett, in what similitude does you means you plays de fife?" John March, Southerner The spiritual man, or Christ, was after the similitude of the Father, without corporeality or finite mind. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 In the physiognomy of the three there is similitude enough to declare them of one nation,—though dissimilarity sufficient to prove a distinct provinciality both in countenance and character. The Boy Slaves Thus, under the similitude of a game, I have seen children confronted with the horrors of arithmetic, and even taught to gargle. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The λεύκη has some similitude with the ἄλφος, but it has more of the white, and runs in deeper: and in it the hairs are white, and like down. Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures Tormented by examples, overwhelmed with similitudes, the adventurous reader, who to-day risks a reading of "Euphues," feels it impossible to keep his composure. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare The beetling crags that hang here and there above the gorge hold in their rugged rock sculpture no facial similitudes, no suggestions. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories A similitude of religion, although it is not deemed so essential in this as in former ages to the alliance of nations, is still, as it ever will be thought, a desirable circumstance. A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America Its business is not with truth, but with its appearance; and it is this similitude, in perpetual comparison with the original, which, raising contempt, produces the ridiculous. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors I can give no better similitude of this quality than I have given already: that he comes up with a whine and runs away with a whoop and his finger to his nose. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) The matter involved has only a remote similitude. The Bondboy It was with a look of smiling expectancy that he encountered the aspect of snarling mockery, half visible or half imaginary, of that grim human similitude. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories I was nettled by the coloured gentleman’s refusal, and unbuttoned my wrath under the similitude of ironical submission. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) If viewed in reference to cognate schools of Christian philosophy, it bears similitude in many respects to some of the schools of Germany. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The poem contains the well-known similitude of the angel, and also an apt allusion to the great storm that had lately destroyed fleets and devastated the country. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) For palaces but hold the outer beauty, in types and glimpses and similitudes. The Thread of Gold Whether this fear arose from some disease in which the people slept and did not awaken, or whether only from the similitude of sleep to death, it is difficult to ascertain. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century As he vanished, the uniformed similitude of Officer 666 consulted his watch, made out that it was almost 10.30 and strode rapidly in the direction of his home. Officer 666 Thus all along in the holy scriptures there are frequent metaphors and similitudes of the most inoffensive creatures, such as stags, hinds, lambs, and the like. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Great is the similitude also between the modern Spaniard and the ancient Roman in this respect. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Most horrible of all, these shadowy, spheroid creatures exhibited here and there buds of various sizes, which were taking on the similitude of fresh forms. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 There was a similitude in their genius and in their sufferings. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir The boyish and most unprincipled passion he had felt for that murdered lady had no similitude with the feelings that possessed him now. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals This removes from the whole terrestrial organism every similitude of inertness and gives it a fundamental refinement, activity, and potency of the highest order. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College What is the similitude then between the beauties of sense and that beauty which is divine? An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus The anonymous letter with which you were pleased to favor me, was written by Dr. Rush, so far as I can judge from a similitude of hands. Patrick Henry And in considering Pope's admirable career, I am forced into similitudes drawn from other courage and greatness, and into comparing him with those who achieved triumphs in actual war. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges As there is not, in reality, a single point of similitude, the comparison is well selected, and does great honor to the judgment of the military wiseacres. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 The "perils that flesh is heir to," are nothing if compared to the perils that environ the similitudes of flesh. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 For if there be any similitude the respective objects must be similar. An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus This similitude appeared to me so extraordinary, that I was inclined to suspect an error in the publication, which might have arisen from a confusion of obscure vocabularies in the author’s possession. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies It has but little reference or similitude to those auctions from which Sir Robert Peel has removed the duty. The Macdermots of Ballycloran He wrote her down as an object of curiosity, as he spoke of the sour face and similitude of good humour in the whiskey boater’s expression. The River Prophet And the method of it was this—if method it could be called which had, in its sidelong movements, the similitude of a crab. Wee Wifie It is, therefore, rightly said, that the beauty and good of the soul consists in her similitude to the Deity; for from hence flows all her beauty, and her allotment of a better being. An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus The conception of the conquest of the human soul by the irresistible operation of divine force is so foreign to modern thought and faith that Bunyan's similitude no longer seems a verisimilitude. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries, And daub their natural faces unaware More and more from the first similitude. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Most winged, gentle, and etherial of all the dwellers in, or on, anthills,—know that thy similitude is nothing meaner than a flower. Say and Seal, Volume II Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female . . . . The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture No. As long as the world stands, a rose just open will remain the fairest similitude for a perfect woman. Nobody He declines all inquiry into reality and causation, and maintains that the only office of philosophy is to observe and register the invariable relations of succession and similitude in phenomena. The Philosophy of the Conditioned That if ever we use in English any preposition at all to express similitude, it is the preposition to—like to me, like to death, &c. A Handbook of the English Language And the poets could nowhere find a fitter similitude for a modest maiden than "A Violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye." The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare We know what the "similitude" of the sun and the moon were like among the surrounding nations. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture The habit of moving at certain periods is inherited both by plants and animals, and several other points of similitude have been specified. Life of Charles Darwin And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Hebrew Literature Like the driver, it is generally dirty and dilapidated; but here the similitude ends; for, while the former is often high, his drosky is always low. The Land of Thor By way of similitude, as in Rev. xxi, where heaven is held forth by the representation of a glorious city, there discoursed, &c. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies The similitude or token of Ashtoreth, the paramount goddess of the Zidonians, was the ashera, the "grove" of the Authorized Version, probably in most cases merely a wooden pillar. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture Yet, apart from the habit of thinking otherwise, and being drummed into the notion by the very toys of infancy, the similitude is not one atom too ludicrous; no, nor a thousandth part enough so. Captain Sword and Captain Pen A Poem Though none may Thy similitude behold, Yet know we by Thy works that Thou are great. Hebrew Literature Nature, in embryo, begins its work of forming both the physical and moral image of the child, which is after the similitude of the original parents and not the immediate ones. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity He was accorded an audience without any difficulty which fact was perhaps due to the similitude of his race with theirs but more probably to the gifts he carried with him. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) You astonish me with such a metaphysics of genius," said the teacher's companion, "and I have only a hazy conception of the accuracy of your similitude. On the Future of our Educational Institutions Do you say there are points of similitude between the Bible religion and the mythical? The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 “And he showed them a similitude, Behold the fig-tree and all the trees, when they shoot forth their buds, ye see and know of your ownselves that summer is then near at hand.” The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. There is but little similitude; if there was much it would not prove identity. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 Note the character of the similitudes so far used in describing Saul. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning I could not divine the object of the Mexican in proclaiming this similitude. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness But similitude never proves identity short of completeness. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 This same similitude is used by our Master Jesus Christ; for when he speaks of the troubles of his church, he compares them to the pains of a woman travailing in child-birth. The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. The celebrated Vossius shows, with great ingenuity, the similitude there is between the history of Moses and the fable of Bacchus. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life But there is such a similitude between the members of the Bruin tribe, that he who has ever seen one—and who has not?—will easily recognise all the rest of the family. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains His behaviour suggested a further similitude to the great forest monarch. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of fire: Ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 A wooden image after the similitude of the Lord King Edward, deceased, 40 shillings. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Here too we have games, but with a dissimilitude in similitude. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 But to those who are still of earth and can but conceive God's fatherhood according to earthly similitudes, it will not ordain a prone obeisance. Apologia Diffidentis The only difference between it and the childish speech lay in the fact that instead of a declaration of contrasts, she now uttered a declaration of similitudes. The Rough Road There are a thousand things, very different in character and origin, which have points of similitude. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 “Silver purified seven times,” and “gold tried in the fire,” and “polished after the similitude of a palace.” A Princess in Calico The similitude really fits the case very well, in this village at least, and probably in many others. Change in the Village He recalled this similitude suddenly, and it brought before him a clearly defined vision of Lettice, not as his wife, but of the girl he had driven to and from the school at Stenton. Mountain Blood A Novel The similitude made him laugh—for Doggie always had a saving sense of humour—but he was very angry with Peddle, while he stamped around the room in his silk pyjamas. The Rough Road The imagination endows the man-made thing with consciousness and powers, whether of reservation or aloofness; the similitude of meditation and profundity is wrought into stone. The Wonder A stigma shall be fixed upon man or beast that shall destroy him who is made after the similitude of God. Select Temperance Tracts He further instituted rules for the education of the people, that “sons may be as plants grown up in their youth, and daughters as corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace.” Ancient States and Empires The comparison both of the rate and proportion of triangles hath in the former beene taught: Their similitude remaineth for the last place. The Way To Geometry A Parable is a similitude taken from natural things, to instruct us in the knowledge of spiritual. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse Instantly he became energetic, and his actions bore a curious similitude to those of Winter a little while earlier. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley "A similitude in our fates," replied Misnar, "has already made us brethren, and I should be unreasonable to ask a favour I meant not to return." Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers Those temples and altars are decorated with marbles and precious metals, which sculpture has fashioned into the similitude of angels, saints, and the images of illustrious men. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 For the similitude of two figures doth conclude both the same equality in angles and proportion of sides betweene themselves. The Way To Geometry I," said the bird, "did not intend To do you disrespect, my friend: Indeed, we no reflection meant By such similitude of scent. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) The reverence we are enjoined to testify towards our earthly sovereign is further shown in our glorifying the Almighty Power for conferring a similitude of His boundless Majesty upon a mortal. Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 Often as the words are on our tongue, they have got a fabulous or semi-fabulous character for most of us, and pass on like a kind of transient similitude, like a sound signifying little. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. But Jabez had not forgotten the similitude of the swine ring. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Dispose all things by measure, and number, and weight: Or, as the learned Plutarch speaketh; He adorneth and layeth out all the parts of the world according to rate, proportion, and similitude. The Way To Geometry Resemblance, relation, or equality; a similitude of ratios or proportions. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Thus I sat for a long time, lulled by similitudes of northern plants and bees and birds, and then gently shifted southward a few hundred miles, the transition being smooth and unabrupt. Edge of the Jungle Ralph Austen, published his Treatise of Fruit Trees, shewing the manner of Grafting, Planting, &c. with the spiritual use of an Orchard, or Garden, in divers similitudes. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions "He warn't there," mumbled the peddler again, impervious to the homely similitude. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time He was popular because he presented to the degraded populace their own image and similitude. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 It is possible, nothwithstanding these points of difference, that both may be of the same species, the difference arising from a want of similitude in the circumstances by which they are surrounded. Popular Adventure Tales There seems even to have been a strong similitude in their characters—both keen, both intelligent, both fond of power, and both exhibiting no delicacy whatever with regard to the means for its possession. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 For, by these, we attain our highest similitude to God, and become perfectly sons of God, shining like the Divinity, and exhibiting in ourselves the most excellent image of the most Holy Trinity. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus We have not entered into questions of contrast or similitude with the opinions of other authors. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 A similitude occurs to my mind which appears very appropriate to this subject: it is that of grain. Spiritual Torrents Religion is a Heaven-born thing, the Seed of God in the spirits of men, whereby they are formed to a similitude and likeness of Himself. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries It is true that the music of all mountainous countries has many points of resemblance, but it is because the people of such countries have strong mental and moral similitudes. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Virtue is the attribute which gives us our highest similitude to God, and it is this also which imparts to us some of the purest social pleasures we enjoy on earth. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus The case of Hungary has neither any similitude. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 And look at those small, outlying clouds nearest us; are not they the very image and similitude of islets lying off the coast of the main island? Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess But no similitude can be more striking or more lasting than that of love to a state of debt. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy One of the sacred writers implores for his countrymen this blessing; “that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace.” The Young Maiden In the physiognomy of the three there is similitude enough to declare them of one nation, though dissimilarity sufficient to prove a distinct provinciality both in countenance and character. The Boy Slaves The Sanballats and Tobiahs of discouragement and shame may deride the work and embarrass the labourers; but one by one the living stones, polished after the similitude of a palace, are incorporated into it. The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 Although these measures restored a similitude of life to the nation, it remained but a feeble imitation of its previous self. Greener Than You Think Union and similitude are the ground of fellowship and communion. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning They are to be “polished after the similitude of” that most splendid of structures, “a palace.” The Young Maiden Whether the similitude of those passages which exhibit the same thought, on the same occasion, proceeded from accident or imitation, is not easy to determine. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II In the case of the lady in the car the similitude is clear enough. Mushrooms on the Moor With a thousand more compliments, equally true, Expressed in similitudes equally new! The Book of Humorous Verse The law without is the pattern and exact copy, the law within, is the transcript or the image of God upon the heart, framed and fashioned according to the similitude of it, 2 Cor. iii. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning And the similitude which stamps them all, is also a feature worthy of study. At Fault Now Nature abhors equality, and similitude, just as much as foolish men love them. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 If we do not come upon our shining treasure in the exact form that our ignorance had fancied, we discover it after a similitude that a much higher wisdom has ordained. Mushrooms on the Moor It is a shrub of great beauty, both in respect to its foliage and flowers, bearing but little similitude to the common Myrtle, if suffered to grow, acquiring the height of many feet. The Botanical Magazine Vol. 7 or, Flower-Garden Displayed The distance betwixt heaven and earth is but a poor similitude to express the distance between God and creatures. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning There, however, the obvious similitude ended; Edwin Doothnack served a machine-gun of the American Expeditionary Forces, while his mother was as poor and retiring as the other woman was dogmatic and rich. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The Natural Laws, as the Law of Continuity might well warn us, do not stop with the visible and then give place to a new set of Laws bearing a strong similitude to them. Natural Law in the Spiritual World Reference has been made to a certain similitude of religion and superstition. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Slowly crawling along, they bear similitude to a string of gigantic termites bent on some industrial excursion. The Death Shot A Story Retold And there is no greater subtilty of Satan, nor no stronger self deceit, than this, to palliate and cover vices with the shadow of virtue, and to present corruptions under the similitude of graces. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning It would occupy a greater space of time than I can afford, to trace a similitude between all the Indian rites and religious ceremonies, and those of the Jewish nation. Diary in America, Series Two It is possible, notwithstanding these points of difference, that both may be of the same species, the difference arising from a want of similitude in the circumstances by which they are surrounded. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North This historic similitude shows us that the miraculous cures are all of them subject to the same regular laws. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery If it were possible to change Miss Thusa’s opinions and peculiarities into something after the similitude of her kind! Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel A similitude and likeness is the end of all the manifestations of himself, that we be one with him. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Though they treat of the most diverse subjects under the sun, yet there is a strange similitude about them which is characteristic of their age. The Book-Hunter at Home Following the example of others around me, I took from it a sort of two-pronged fork with the tines spread in the similitude of a chicken's wishbone. With The Eyes Shut 1898 In speaking of verbal charms, Lord Bacon commented on the fact that amongst the heathen nations, either barbarous words, without meaning, were used, or "words of similitude," which were intended to feed the imagination. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Who ever yet hath seen it, who has heard of the similitude of it? The Reign of Mary Tudor Because I conceive this is the great sin of the times, and the most reprehensive and fountain sin, the root of all our profanity and malignity, even this which Christ points out in this similitude. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The essential feature of a parable is that of comparison or similitude, by which some ordinary, well-understood incident is used to illustrate a fact or principle not directly expressed in the story. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern But, in this similitude, their unilinear arrangement must be disregarded—of course often they're mixed up in every way, but arrangement in single lines is very common. The Book of the Damned If we count even the shortest similitudes as parables, we find only nine parables in Mark. The Books of the New Testament A similitude is used even gentler than a father's care: "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." The Chief End of Man It is true, this time is short, and so short that scarce can similitudes or comparisons be had to shadow it out unto us. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Somehow, the presence of this similitude of land made the sea appear as enormous as space itself. The Frozen Pirate Beloved brethren, ye are God's creatures, created and formed to His own image and similitude, for whose redemption was shed the most precious blood of the only beloved Son of God.... John Knox The similitude of their literary genius is equally certain, for Cato's saying relates to continental Celts and can be checked by means of Irish poems and tales. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance But is there any similitude between the Governor of Ohio and the President of the United States? Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Because we cannot conceive in our poor narrow minds what God is in himself, therefore he expresseth to us often in similitudes to the creatures, and condescends to our capacity. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning They barely hated one another, so devoured were they by the sovereign passion; and as they were treated with exasperating similitude, there was nothing to set them at one another's throats. The Californians In short, that they might leave no liberty untaken, even a wild fantastical similitude of sounds has served to prop up a system. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Feasting is a commonplace and rather gross subject, having many points of similitude in all lands. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers I see no reason why there may not be a similitude. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection This is that which hath a virtue to transform the soul into his similitude. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning And in the sixth day Jehovah said let us make man in our own image after our likeness in our similitude. The Secret of the Creation And it is upon this principle that the most ignorant and barbarous nations have frequently excelled in similitudes, comparisons, metaphors, and allegories, who have been weak and backward in distinguishing and sorting their ideas. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II In fact the similitude between the two painters noticeable in their composition, softness of outline, lightness of figures, and clear harmonious colouring, tends to confirm the great artistic affinity which we have indicated. Fra Angelico I cannot better describe them than by saying that they have more similitude to the Arabian women than any other race. Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet It is very like it, and there are more of us in the predicament of the men of Gotham than are ready to acknowledge the similitude. Gryll Grange In as far as the saving of the lost is portrayed in this similitude, the work is done by the Saviour alone. The Parables of Our Lord Only in point of numbers, and that both are on horseback, is there any similitude between the two troops. The Lone Ranche Indeed, it would not lead to great confusion in ornithological science, if they were generically classed with the eagles—as both kinds have many points of similitude. The Boy Hunters Even Darsie herself looked plain with her hair dragged back into a tight little knot, her grey flannel shirt padded into the similitude of stooping shoulders, her skirt turned carefully back to front. A College Girl Curious effects could be produced in this way, leafy similitudes of birds and animals could be made so that the resemblance was almost as striking as if they had been cut out of gingerbread. By the Christmas Fire By this similitude the Lord represents the extent and the limits of human agency in the progress of his kingdom. The Parables of Our Lord Her burnished hair was off with a clip or two of the great shears; a mixture of soot and walnut-juice hid up her roses, and transformed her ivory limbs to the similitude of a tanner's. Little Novels of Italy It is highly improbable that a large occupational caste should be named after an animal, and the metaphorical similitude can safely be rejected. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Please to tell me, has a lawyer more similitude to a raven, than a poet to a whale? The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell By which last wiredrawn similitude does Teufelsdröckh mean no more than that young men find obstacles in what we call ‘getting under way’? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History In like manner, the way of a sinner’s return to God is too great and deep for being fully set forth in one similitude. The Parables of Our Lord No similitude of his features, no token of his existence, cherished by love and hallowed by reverence, invested him with the immortality of memory. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Besides, such a method must shorten your labour, preserve the freshness of your eye and spirit, and also ensure the similitude of the sitter to himself by the very speediness of the operation. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 And lo! the rabble of Hell instantly filled the palace and the porch in every shape, after the image and similitude of the principal sin, which each delighted to thrust upon mankind. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell There is an "all-pervading similitude of structure," between man and the Anthropoid Apes, though it is certain that it is not from any living form that he took his origin. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Founded as it is upon the laws of nature, it affords the most vivid similitude of the certainty which characterizes the judgment of the great day. The Parables of Our Lord His complexion had the pale, transparent darkness of eastern climes, and his eye a kind of shadowy splendor, impossible to describe, but which reminded me at once of his mother's similitude of the "clouded star." Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author "Therefore Aristotle, when he thinks to tax Democritus, doth in truth commend him, where he saith, If we shall indeed dispute, and not follow after similitudes," &c. Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Yes, Hypocrisy creeps between man and his own heart, and conceals every iniquity so craftily, under the name and similitude of some virtue, that she has made every body almost unable to recognise himself. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Emblematical Representation of the Paradise of God; showing the Nature of Spiritual Industry, in the similitude of a Garden well ordered, dressed, and kept. Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Generally, some recent event, or some question by friend or foe, suggests the similitude. The Parables of Our Lord His youth is renewed in ours, his Rosalie lives again in the cherub who bears her name, and in whom his eye traces the similitude of her beauty. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author They took names such as in former times distinguished the bands of brigands who were the terror of the middle ages, and their acts rendered the similitude more striking. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre I have not personally the honour of this divine's acquaintance, but all my friends who have met or seen him assure me that the similitude is exact. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions And the similitude of two serpents was upon the sword in gold. The Mabinogion Vol. 1 It is in a similar way that two different forms of speech are employed here to impart one lesson: the discourse begins with literal expressions, and ends with a similitude. The Parables of Our Lord I stole with guilty consciousness towards the picture, in whose lineaments the fastidious eye of Ernest Linwood had traced a similitude to mine. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author But faith in things seen is improperly so called, and only after a certain similitude with regard to the certainty and firmness of the assent. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition These gentry have been especially silly upon the similitude of Old Age to Winter. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Louis XIV. annexed great dignity to his peruke, which he increased to an enormous size, and made a lion's mane the object of its similitude. At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History The difficulty of constructing a definition which should include every similitude that belongs to this class, and exclude all others, has been well appreciated by expositors and frankly confessed. The Parables of Our Lord Do you not recognize a similitude to the flower-girl of the library? Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author I answer that, The eye is of two kinds, namely, the bodily eye properly so-called, and the intellectual eye, so-called by similitude. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition So much for our similitude—a staring and striking one—to Spring. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 "Nothing remains but this,"—taking his pencil and dashing off the similitude of a painter's palette broken. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales In the opposite mood was he, either through some corporeal object in similitude or through a divine subject in reality, when he said: 15. The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem It was a bit of stone, of white stone, fashioned by curious nature in the similitude of a lily, wrought in the darkness, the silence of the depths of the earth. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Now it is God Who signifies spiritual things to us by means of the sensible things in the sacraments, and of similitudes in the Scriptures. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition His statement having been compared with the head and the record of the body, the similitude was found to be exact, except as to the teeth. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City If we compare the above histories, we may perceive that they bear a manifest similitude to one another; though they are attributed to different persons. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Now in such conceptions and similitudes the human intellect of this lower world nourishes itself, till such time as it will be lawful to behold with purer eye the beauty of the divinity. The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem Those apprehensions which the likeness of Eustace to his injured father, and the similitude of their names excited, were now confirmed beyond all doubt, by his claiming kindred with Dr. Beaumont. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel But if it knows the thing by its similitude or idea, or species separate from it, or by its effects and operations, the cognition is much feebler and more imperfect. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry That party, besides the Independents, contained two sets of men who are seemingly of the most opposite principles, but who were then united by a similitude of genius and of character. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell It happens to him often to make use of a verb for a radix, which has many variations and different significations: but, at this rate, we may form a similitude between terms the most dissimilar. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Next we see under the form of another similitude the manner in which he arms himself to obtain the object. The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem Now that in this Planet there is some similitude of Winter and 144 Summer is affirmed by Aristotle De gen. animal. l. The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet Thus a moralizing observation of natural similitudes teaches man to hope for an existence beyond death. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life But she did purpose to allow him to dwell on the point he had raised, so she adroitly took up the thread where he had broken off to apply his similitude. The Two-Gun Man As the divine honours paid to the Sun, and the adoration of fire, were at one time almost universal, there will be found in most places a similitude in the terms of worship. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Nevertheless, here are the first gleams of a genial appreciation of the Æsthetik of Germany, that large-hearted discernment that grasps similitudes from the antipodes of Thought, and writes them upon its sunny equator. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy You see then that agreement and similitude which there is betwixt our earth and the Moone. The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet There the blessed ones found respite and peaceful joys in flowery fields, pure breezes, social fellowship, and the similitudes of their earthly pursuits. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The one has but literal facts to tell, the other is full of imagination and similitude. Platform Monologues There will also appear a great similitude in the names of their cities and temples: so that we may be assured, that the whole was the operation of one and the same people. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. After examining it for awhile, Mr. Delancey was observed to set his own foot on it, as if to note if there were any similitude. The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans Addison merely notices the number of points of similitude, but the reason they produce or augment humour, is that they make the solution difficult. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 The pious imagination or the æsthetic taste tricked out this favourite of fortune in masquerade costumes, just as a wealthy lover may amuse himself by dressing his mistress after the similitude of famous beauties. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Homer's moons and clouds, rainbows and hail-storms, are used for the most part only for similitudes. Platform Monologues And though there may have been of old a great similitude between that language, and those of Egypt, Cutha, and Canaan: yet they were all different tongues. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. No peer or likeness, no similitude or equal can ever be joined with Him. Selections From the Writings of the Báb This kind of humorous complication is generally under the form of saying that a thing is like something—from which it is essentially different—merely because of the existence of some accidental similitude. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Possibly also the term epieikeia is applied in Greek by a similitude to all kinds of moderation. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Try an easy-looking similitude:— How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! Platform Monologues The antients seem to have taken advantage of this fancied similitude, which they improved by a little art; and their first effort towards imagery was from these rude and rotten materials. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Point after point is discussed, similitudes and allegories are brought up by each speaker until, after wearisome hours or days, the opinion of each side has been molded sufficiently to bring them into agreement. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir To mark their veneration for that celebrated Roman between whose situation and their own they found some similitude, they were to be denominated, "The Society of the Cincinnati." The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States I answer that, Precipitation is ascribed metaphorically to acts of the soul, by way of similitude to bodily movement. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province The anonymous letter with which you were pleased to favour me, was written by ——, so far as I can judge from a similitude of hands.... The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States I have already mentioned that this similitude in terms, and the religious system, which was so widely propagated, were owing to one great family, who spread themselves almost universally. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Every cliff records a lesson; and the unnumbered flowers interweave with their varied dyes and rich perfumes gentle suggestions, sweet similitudes for the understanding and the heart. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy This flattering conception yielded place to a belief merely of similitude between me and the genuine original. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 The Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. Our Day In the Light of Prophecy And as he did so a yet further similitude and parable flashed through his mind. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties For while in his meditations he admired these admirable visions, unto the sight of their similitude was he lifted up in the Lord. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings All these with potent herbs the cruel queen Had stripped of man's similitude, to wear A brutal figure, and a bestial mien. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor When you first met my eye, this similitude startled me. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 "They didn't change the fence much," said David, and the man now recognized the one point of similitude between that desolate home down in Duck Town and the House of Joy where David lived. A Melody in Silver One of his tropes is "the worst similitude in the world." Studies in Early Victorian Literature Nothing can make it more certain than such expressions that the prophets interpreted the intimations they received from above by clothing them with their own mundane similitudes. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Now back again they ride, Wheel round, and weave new courses to and fro, In armed similitude of martial show, Circling and intercircling. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor In every comparison the similitude either goes before, and the thing follows; or the thing goes before, and the similitude follows. The Training of a Public Speaker In the sixteenth century the winged angels have often a degenerate similitude to tightly laced coryphées, who balance themselves upon their wheels as if they were performing a vaudeville turn. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance The particular yew which the bird did me the honour to select had been clipped long ago into a similitude of Adam, and, in fact, went by his name. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Mystic similitudes were at this time greatly affected in all branches of learning. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour The glazed, whitish eye of Jabel bore the similitude of a beam of satisfaction. Tales of the Chesapeake In speaking of arguments I mentioned a kind of similitude which, as an ornament to a discourse, contributes to make it sublime, florid, pleasing, and admirable. The Training of a Public Speaker That point is the adventure which he narrates under the similitude of the voyage that ended in the discovery of England. Among Famous Books Gazing on the past, we find in the days of which we write no similitude with the days of the war. The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution My Dear Sister, In my first letter I spoke of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, as represented by our Lord under the similitude of a living spring. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister His long tenure in the deep had obliterated much of the similitude to man, but his memory of terrestrial matters was extraordinary. Tales of the Chesapeake For the more far-fetched a similitude is, the more new and unexpected it will appear. The Training of a Public Speaker Besides these there are the virtues of those who have already attained to the Divine similitude: these are called the "perfect virtues." Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Here we stand at the foundation stone, and are not surprised afterward to see taking their place in the fair edifice of family love, "stones polished after the similitude of a palace." Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 Nay—thunders Science—put away such childish superstition, smite such traditionary idols; man was first made after the similitude of a marine ascidian, and once swam as a tadpole in primeval seas. Infelice From this point of view there exists the closest similitude between the albumins of animal and those of vegetable origin; both, in fact, are capable of assuring good health and corporal and cellular equilibrium. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine We must be exceedingly cautious in regard to similitudes, that we do not use such as are either obscure or unknown. The Training of a Public Speaker Irrational creatures, however, do not partake thereof in a rational manner, wherefore there is no participation of the eternal law in them, except by way of similitude. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace.—Bible. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 And these Sacraments, together with Tertullian, Origen, Ambrose, Hierom, Chrysostom, Basil, Dionysius, and other Catholic fathers, do we call figures, signs, marks or badges, prints, copies, forms, seals, signets, similitudes, patterns, representations, remembrances and memories. The Apology of the Church of England Now, God contains things in two ways: in one way by their similitudes; thus things are said to be in God, as existing in His knowledge. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition To call My Lady where she stood “A Wild-rose blossom of the wood,” Makes but a poor similitude. My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale Now these similitudes move the soul more when they are not only expressed in words, but also offered to the senses. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Around the brim Bertho had sculptured moss And rare similitudes of southern flowers; Shaped violets from sapphires, and from stalks, Hung ruby roses, bright, but without soul, As perfumeless as was that frigid land. The Arctic Queen The treatment also of the subjects has some apparent similitude; but in looking all through the book, it is strange that not one line, not one phrase, is the same as any of mine. My Life as an Author Still, not any kind of similitude suffices for the notion of image, but only similitude of species, or at least of some specific sign. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition We draw such similitudes for the sake of Our discerning servants that perchance they may transcend a mere plant-like level of existence and attain unto true maturity in this resistless and immovable Cause. The Summons of the Lord of Hosts In reading his books, particularly the first and the third, one sometimes finds himself bewildered in a thicket of images and similitudes, some of them grotesque and not altogether congruous. Companion to the Bible To express great numbers, the Arabs and Tuaricks always use the similitudes, "like the dust," or "like flies." Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government The whale is used as a similitude of delusive security. Anglo-Saxon Literature Hence to say that God is seen by some similitude, is to say that the divine essence is not seen at all; which is false. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Thus do We set forth comparisons and similitudes, that perchance the people may turn unto Him Who is the Object of the adoration of the entire creation. The Summons of the Lord of Hosts That bare and death-cold body, dragged from the darkest pool of Corrie, with its hands filled with fine wool, wears the perfect similitude of my own Elphin! Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland We take this on the whole to be the worst similitude in the world. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses Nay, forbid it, O my God, that I should thus venture to describe Thee, for every similitude and comparison must pertain to what is essentially created by Thee. Prayers and Meditations I answer that, Image includes the idea of similitude. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition P: Coin for them a similitude: Two men, unto one of whom We had assigned two gardens of grapes, and We had surrounded both with date-palms and had put between them tillage. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side We know not the essence, nor the real mode of production, of any fact, but only its relations to other facts in the way of succession or of similitude. Auguste Comte and Positivism Wonderful things have been given to us "under the similitude of a dream"; things beautiful and terrible, things wise and strange. Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days Nor ought a difference of arrangement with respect to us to excite claims from others, whose circumstances bear no similitude to ours. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 But this belongs to the Holy Ghost, Who proceeds from another by way of similitude. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition P: Verily We have coined for mankind in this Qur'an all kinds of similitudes; and indeed if thou camest unto them with a miracle, those who disbelieve would verily exclaim: Ye are but tricksters! Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side It is a curious fact that in the "Pastor of Hermas," perhaps the first work written in Rome after the establishment of Prelacy, the Church is described under the similitude of a tower! The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution In English literature we have some great tellings "under the similitude of a dream." Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days But I have been insensibly led, by the general complexion of the times, from the particular case of Geneva, to those to which it bears no similitude. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 I answer that, A name is communicable in two ways: properly, and by similitude. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition P: Allah coineth a similitude: A man in relation to whom are several part-owners, quarrelling, and a man belonging wholly to one man. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side In consequence the center is overlighted, and instead of a similitude of daylight we have unreality. The Complete Home The second license given to the tongue is in the way of persecution: “therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God.” Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series When we get near enough to God to see this, the springtide of Truth in Christian Science will burst upon us in the similitude of the Apocalyptic pictures. No and Yes Therefore, if God is seen by the created intellect in act, it must be that He is seen by some similitude. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Such are the similitudes which We propound to men, that they may reflect. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side You see what a very perfect contrivance the skate is; and what a similitude of intelligence there is in its evolution. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays And lightning in the south in summer, just shown, swiftly withdrawn—power and passion—sudden similitudes with great love-women of old story—that also was Elspeth. Foes There was but one exception to the monotonous similitude of these several habitations. Burned Bridges Therefore, in order to see God, there must be some similitude of God on the part of the visual faculty, whereby the intellect is made capable of seeing God. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Such similitudes coin We for mankind that haply they may reflect. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Madhva says it is so-called because it bears some reduced similitude to the Lord, though quite distinct from him. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 To use Dr. Martineau's expressive similitude, the Faith was blown over the world silently like thistle-seed, and as silently here and there it fell and took root. Old St. Paul's Cathedral For Debussy has caught and re-uttered, with almost incredible similitude, the precise poetic accent of the dramatist. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score Now it was shown above that things seen in God, are not seen singly by their own similitude; but all are seen by the one essence of God. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Evil is the similitude of people who falsify the Signs of Allah: and Allah guides not people who do wrong. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side I knew who she was upon the first sight of her, by the similitude of her countenance with her father's picture. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II What a terrible similitude have you made, colonel, to shew that you are inclining to the wars? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 For example ye may take these verses, first pointing, than confirming by similitudes. The Arte of English Poesie The essence of God, however, cannot be seen by any created similitude representing the divine essence itself as it really is. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition P: See what similitudes they coin for thee, and thus are all astray, and cannot find a road! Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Pray think in reason, sir; is a man to be put to death for a similitude? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 So strong a similitude was there between his conduct and that of Domi'tian, that a reader might imagine he was going over the history of the same reign. Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. "It's about the eyes and the mouth particularly, as well as a general similitude," explained Connie. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Therefore if the intellect of one who sees the Divine essence understands any creatures in God, it must be informed by their similitudes. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition P: And verily We have displayed for mankind in this Qur'an all kind of similitudes, but most of mankind refuse aught save disbelief. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side This origin of the name is more appropriate to the character of the work than deriving it from the Sir Hudibras of Spenser, with whom there exists no similitude. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 There is where I think our privilege comes in, after the similitude of his; to supplement broadly that which shall not hinder honest and conditional exertion. The Other Girls Cases like this point in certain ways to the absolute high-water-mark of vegetable ingenuity: they go nearest of all in the plant-world to the similitude of conscious animal intelligence. Science in Arcady Objection 1: It seems that what is seen in God by those who see the Divine essence, is seen by means of some similitude. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition S: And certainly We have explained for men in this Quran every kind of similitude, but most men do not consent to aught but denying. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Allegories, parables, similitudes and visions abound, some of them symbolic of the future and others of existing facts and conditions. The Bible Book by Book A Manual for the Outline Study of the Bible by Books Balder watched the man curiously, but without seeming to perceive the rather grisly similitude between the latter's vagaries and his own. Idolatry A Romance The similitude is not of man's choosing, but is inspired by the Holy Spirit Himself. The Purpose of the Papacy In one way it is assimilated by the object itself, when it is directly informed by a similitude, and then the object is known in itself. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition P: And verily We have displayed for mankind in this Qur'an all manner of similitudes, but man is more than anything contentious. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side The only town in England that can give you any notion of Rouen, is CHESTER; although the similitude holds only in some few particulars. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One The slow vibration of the lamp produced on the countenance the similitude of a periodically recurring grimace. Idolatry A Romance The fault of this reasoning, as in that which the word tribute is made to imply, consists in founding an exact similitude between two cases on their points of resemblance, and omitting those of difference. What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader In another way when informed by a similitude which resembles the object; and in this way, the knowledge is not of the thing in itself, but of the thing in its likeness. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition P: The similitude of the two parties is as the blind and the deaf and the seer and the hearer. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Not that they were impatient or contemptuous—it was quite the other way; but to use a similitude, they were like good-natured, active, kindly elders at a children's party. The Child of the Dawn An exploding shell had made a deep cavity in the floor not far from the altar, and this hollow was soon shaped into the similitude of a grave. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America The similitude is strictly confined to the locality. Humanly Speaking And again, the glory that is spiritual was anticipated in the angels by way of similitude; and that of the body in the heaven, especially the empyrean. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition A similitude is coined, so pay ye heed to it: Lo! those on whom ye call beside Allah will never create a fly though they combine together for the purpose. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side |
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