If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. From LearnThat.org. [James Baldwin]
And hence assumption determines the term whence and the term whither; for assumption means a taking to oneself from another. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
Of whence is your fair ship, and whither is she bound? '. From Wordnik.com. [Geprge Aloe and the Sweepstakes] Reference
From whence is your good ship, and whither is she bound? '. From Wordnik.com. [Geprge Aloe and the Sweepstakes] Reference
As that which is the fountain whence all those blessings flow. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
So mundus in Latin, whence Augustine's oxymoron, "O munde immunde!". From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
He mentions the fountain whence these graces flow, namely, God's electing love. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
But how then are any young ones brought forth, and whence is it that the species has not perished?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
His immutable choice from everlasting is the fountain whence flow all such particular acts of love. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The idea of from is included in the word whence -- therefore it is unnecessary to say "From whence.". From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
In St. Benedict we find the name vespera which has prevailed, whence the French word vêpres and the English vespers. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
But whence is it, that when a Body is at length corrupted, out of this Corruption another Species of Things is generated?. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy] Reference
We cannot recall whence we came, nor tell how we began to be. From Wordnik.com. [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference
43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Hydra of Lerna, because it haunted a marsh of that name whence it issued in search of prey. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
I.e. parire, to bring forth young \ from whence the French word noel, and the Iriih nolagh. From Wordnik.com. [Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis] Reference
In the usual procedure bills are prepared and adopted in the Bundesrat and then sent to the Reichstag whence, if passed, they return to the. From Wordnik.com. [My Four Years in Germany] Reference
Log in to Reply opps, I meant from "whence", not when. From Wordnik.com. [Deepwater Drilling Moratorium Already Kicking LA’s A$$ | RedState] Reference
Since you love pedantry, the words "whence" and "whither" do not take a preposition. From Wordnik.com. [Combover and Bilge] Reference
Lo! ask thyself again whence came thy son. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
'Lo! ask thyself again whence came thy son. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
'Lo! ask thyself again whence came thy son. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
Returning, at the word whence deeper sleeps4. From Wordnik.com. [Purgatory. Canto XXXII] Reference
Or kin – whence could I food or raiment find?. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
But to what opposition or to what diversity do we refer this "whence"?. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners] Reference
By means of such observations, we may learn, in the strictest sense, 'whence' the wind cometh. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
Understandable, given the rhyme from whence she came. From Wordnik.com. [The Problem with Mary] Reference
And it helps me to understand from whence this new Rogers comes. From Wordnik.com. [The Passion of the Tigers] Reference
Takeshita simply returned whence he came -- to being a kingmaker. From Wordnik.com. [A Kingmaker on the Line] Reference
"How can you know who you really are if you don't know from whence you came?". From Wordnik.com. [Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history] Reference
Towards the quarter whence the sound arose they turned their heads involuntarily. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
One more gross-out strikeout and the whole genre may go down the toilet from whence it came. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: The Lessons Of Hollywood's Creative Crisis] Reference
Lamoignon-Lavalette, whence the reference in the dedication to the former "empire of your name.". From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
And from whence he had come with his soul blackened over by dark crimes one can not say properly. From Wordnik.com. [A Mess] Reference
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