Seizes-upon Sentence Examples

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  • He seizes upon the most spiritual passages of the prophets, and revives and deepens them.

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  • But the Stoics were not slow to exalt the part of reason, which seizes upon the generic qualities, the essential nature of things.

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  • He seizes upon the fundamental incompatibility of a consciousness which can apprehend, and yet is separated from, the "thing-in-itself."

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