Congress session in Calcutta and spent more than a month with G.K. Gokhale whom he admired greatly for his efforts to "spiritualise" politics and to organise a corps of. From Wordnik.com. [MAHATMA GANDHI - SOUTH AFRICA'S GIFT TO INDIA?(1)] Reference
To spiritualise the poor into contentment with the. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
So we spiritualise the material universe, and afterwards, by an incongruous consistency, anthropomorphise spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
What Sri Aurobindo posits is the perfect solution: to immortalise the body, to spiritualise the material, to divinise the human. From Wordnik.com. [The eternal opposites have met in Sri Aurobindo.] Reference
But, strange to say, after all this plainness of speech, men have become so accustomed to spiritualise and generalise that Anti-Christ stood for. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
Men and ministers calling themselves Gentiles, are rude enough to spiritualise the blessings of Judah, and stealing them, apply them to themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
All these things have been and are fulfilled, or fulfilling, and though men are wonderfully given to spiritualising, few, if any, venture to spiritualise. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
How to spiritualise education is the real problem, for it is only by a spiritualised education that we can escape from the avalanche of materialism that is hanging over the European world just now. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
To spiritualise one's age -- that is something worth doing. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
To end the discriminatory practices, we need to spiritualise the social system. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Shall your Scriptures spiritualise the whole world while you remain unspiritual?. From Wordnik.com. [Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899] Reference
Indeed I shall no longer look upon a petticoat, unless I am able first entirely to spiritualise it. From Wordnik.com. [Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance] Reference
They are ever seeking "to spiritualise the material", while in the West the continual tendency has been "to materialise the spiritual". From Wordnik.com. [Death—and After?] Reference
But the democracy of his desire and faith was one not devoted to material interests; to spiritualise the democracy became henceforth his aim. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
Scriptures, translated into the most widely spoken language, may help the whole human family and purify and spiritualise the hearts of all His sons. From Wordnik.com. [Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899] Reference
Those elementary substances the musician can spiritualise by his special methods, taking away their reproach and redeeming them from blind intensity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
The motto, "Let us eat and drink for to-morrow we die," is capable of spiritualisation, and if you spiritualise that motto it becomes poisonous indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Among Famous Books] Reference
Liberal thinkers endeavoured to spiritualise the creed and prove its essential truths by philosophy, independently of the particular historical evidence. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
But it is certain that Hélisenne, as she represents herself, does not make the smallest attempt to spiritualise (even in the lowest sense) or inspirit the animality of her affection. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
We may certainly suppose that the Evangelist himself felt that he was receiving some of this guidance when he advanced so far beyond his predecessors in his effort to spiritualise Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [The Johannine Writings] Reference
And the more carefully the sense of rhythm is cultivated, the more does it tend to spiritualise itself, and the more profound and more vital is the life which it struggles to interpret and evolve. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
But it is a proof of his depth and purity of soul that his searching philosophic intuition did more to spiritualise the dogmas he accepted from others than these dogmas could do to denaturalise his spontaneous philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
Shakespeare, as under the guidance at once for good and for evil of his alternately Socratic and Swiftian familiar, has set himself as if prepensely and on purpose to brutalise the type of Achilles and spiritualise the type of Ulysses. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference
"Mr. Snodgrass," said Mr.. Glibbans, instantly and emphatically, "ye maun let me go with you, and we can spiritualise on the road; for I hae promis't Mr.. Craig to be wi 'her at the crying, to see the upshot -- so I hope you will come awa.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family] Reference
If the old Romans had the habit of spiritualising a great variety of material objects, in other words, if they were in an advanced animistic stage, there seems to be no reason why they should not have begun to spiritualise mental concepts also (for which they had words, as for the material objects), even at a very early period. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
It would be impossible in us to suppose, that Mr. Snodgrass had any objections to spiritualise with Mr.. Glibbans on the road between Irvine and Garnock; but, notwithstanding her urgency, he excused himself from going with her; however, he recommended her to the special care and protection of Mr. Micklewham, who was at that time on his legs to return home. From Wordnik.com. [The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family] Reference
The wiser effort would have been to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus to make it a bright transparency; to spiritualise the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek, resolutely, the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents, and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
Africa ", into a leader whose efforts to spiritualise politics inspired many struggles around the globe for freedom, justice and a sane society. From Wordnik.com. [GANDHIJI'S VISION OF A FREE SOUTH AFRICA] Reference
9: 'Let us be glad, and rejoice, and give honour to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come,' etc.Mr. Fletcher then spoke from these verses in such a manner as greatly tended to spiritualise the solemnities of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Fletcher of Madeley] Reference
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