Sums-up Sentence Examples

Finally the Ontological argument sums up the truth in the two previous arguments, and gives it worthier utterance in its vision of the philosophical Absolute.

Morgan sums up a discussion on Lubbock's experiments in which the ants failed to utilize particles of earth for bridge-making, with the suggestive remark that " What these valuable experiments seem to show is that the ant, probably the most intelligent of all insects, has no claim to be regarded as a rational being."

In the fully developed episcopal system the bishop sums up in his own person the collective powers of the Church in his diocese, not by delegation of these powers from below, but by divinely bestowed authority from above.

To the Prophecy of Restoration we may fitly apply the words, too gracious and too subtly chosen to be translated, of Renan, "ce second Isaie, dont Fame lumineuse semble comme impregnee, six cent ans d'avance, de toutes les rosees, de tous les parfums de l'avenir" (L'Antechrist, p. 464); though, indeed, the common verdict of sympathetic readers sums up the sentence in a single phrase - "the Evangelical Prophet."

A renegade Armenian Catholicos of the 7th century named Isaac has preserved to us a document which sums up their tenets.

Theophrastus (in Simplicius's Ad Physica, 5) sums up Xenophanes's teaching in the propositions, "The All is One and the One is God."

Philo, who tells how any suggestion of appeal by the Jews to Tiberius enraged him, sums up their view of Pilate in Agrippa's words, as a man " inflexible, merciless, obstinate."

In his " tesmoynages de nostre imbecillite " he follows in the main the lines of the ancients, and he sums up with a lucid statement of the two great arguments in which the sceptical thought of every age resumes itself - the impossibility of verifying our faculties, and the relativity of all impressions.

The proverb that "Those never got luck who came to Loch Leven" sums up the history of the castle.

The very form of the bull, which merely sums up the various items of information that had reached the pope, is enough to prove that the decree was not intended to bind anyone to belief in such things.

There is, in fact, only one attempt known to the present writer to which the student can be referred as proceeding upon thoroughly scientific lines, that of Professor Alf Torp in Indogermanische Forschungen (1895), v., 195, which deals fully with the two inscriptions just mentioned, and practically sums up all that is either certain or probable in the conjectures of his predecessors.

This Commentarius is the first work exclusively devoted to the Alps, and sums up the knowledge of that region possessed in the 16th century.

An interesting letter to his god-child, written twelve days before his death, sums up his spiritual experience in a most touching form.

It ably sums up the issues between the Puritan school and that of Hooker.

Fenelon sums up in favour of the cultivated house-wife; his first object was to persuade the mothers to take charge of their girls themselves, and fit them to become wives and mothers in their turn.

And the long arm of the indicator lever pulls vertically upon the spring of an ordinary spring balance, which registers the load, and with the addition of suitable counting mechanism sums up the weights of any number of successive loads.

It is singular that Schleiermacher on the whole sums up in the Kurze Darstellung against the separation of Christian Ethics from Dogmatics.

The old basilica which contains the history of the monarchy sums up the whole of Gothic art to this day, and it was Suger who in the domain of art and politics brought forward once more the conception of unity.

Don Rafael Altamira has published an Historia de Espana y de la civilizacin espaola (2 vols., Barcelona, 1900-1902), in which he sums up the results of later research.

A firm will, tireless energy, aggressive courage and bold self-confidence were its leading qualities; the word " intensity " perhaps best sums up his character.

The Harpo Marx comment near the beginning comes from ' marvelous aphorisms ' and sums up the serious and ridiculous nature of the performance.

The program continues with Hayden's Oxford Symphony in which the Austrian composer lyrically sums up what he found to be quintessentially English.

The foregoing editorial accurately sums up the attitude of the profession.

In it he sums up the tactic of defeating imperialism.

That sums up the conventional view and explains the seeming indifference of many central banks to this issue.

The qualities in which he seems to surpass his immediate predecessors are exactly those which should be the gift of one who sums up the labours of a mighty line of artists.

Thomas sums up the work of the Bureau of American Ethnology upon the structure, contents and distribution of these earth monuments, over a vast area from which adobe, building stone and stone-working material were absent.

It sums up all ranges of techniques and fundamentals, and leads the viewer progressively through the Savate movements.

The medical journal Circulation also sums up the results of numerous studies with a positive conclusion.

Today I am excited about life and not dreading it, have hope and not doom, the St. Francis prayer really sums up how I wish to be and hopefully how others perceive me to be.

On the reverse side is the exquisitely engraved statement Another Word for Love which simply sums up the special feelings of love between a mother and daughter.

This, I believe, sums up Black better than anyone ever could.

Pink sapphires are a wonderful choice for someone looking for a semi precious gemstone that is both a little bit different and also that sums up the romance of an engagement.

This sums up Libra nicely because a Libra is usually able to keep a balanced perspective of life.

Each zodiac sign has a symbol that instantly sums up what the sign is all about.

That list sums up what Eastbay shoes can offer men and women, but what about the tiny tots in your life?

The calculator offers the ability to figure sums up to 8 places long.

Try to think of a short phrase that sums up the gist of the memo.