preëstablishment

Example Sentences

• "In this way he dams the stream and prevents the issuing waters, and puts out and kills in a moment all desire and hope of knowledge, declaring that harmony is preëstablished, or what is the same thing, that the preëstablishment is an occult quality.[…]I shall not here entertain the question, how far these propositions are consistent with the foregoing, or with the system of preëstablishment;"
• "The true reason for the preëstablishment of this Feast of Weeks, was then shown to be something greater than the giving of the Law;"
• "You may admit some under specific, and some under ad valorem duties,—some under a low rate, and some under a high one,—some under a foreign valuation, others under a valuation at home,—and others, or all, under that legislative preëstablishment of value which the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. Simmons] proposes to substitute for fraudulent or mistaken estimates of actual and changeable value made abroad or at home."
• "Its lofty assertions that it came down from heaven as a religion of peace—of peace to the individual heart of man, as reconciling it with God, and instilling the serene hope of another life—of peace which should incorporate mankind in one harmonious brotherhood, the type and preëstablishment of the sorrowless and strifeless state of beatitude—might appear utterly belied by the claims of conflicting doctrines on the belief, all declared to be essential to salvation, and the animosities and bloody quarrels which desolated Christian cities."
• "The force of such comparison, it must be observable, lies not so much in the number of anomalies presented in delinquents as compared with normals ad libitum, as in the preëstablishment of a fixed basis for the comparison in the normals themselves."
• "The problem is but referred back to an unintelligible preëstablishment of the world-order."