Sentences with phrase «of upright men»

and the Heracleopolitan king's elevation of righteousness over sacrifice in pleasing the gods, «More acceptable is the virtue of the upright man than the ox of him that doeth iniquity,» (Ibid., p. 156.)

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It's the story of how an upright and virtuous man was rejected by his peers,...

Arms crossed, upright, resolute — the sculpture's posture mimics the character of the man.

«There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.»

The upright post (stipes) was permanently fixed in the ground at the site of execution and the condemned man was forced to carry the patibulum from the prison to the place of execution.

Perhaps, in order to persist in thinking of himself as a good and decent man, an upright king and an honorable servant of God, he told himself that as king he had special privileges regarding affairs of the heart.

As one put it, «The man of this philosophy is nothing but... a worm of the millionth generation, or a monkey with some enlargement of the brain, set upright, tail removed, the forearm shortened and the hand perfected by natural Selection.»

Some Mormons do wear religious garments under their clothing as a symbol and a reminder of the promises that they have made to God to live a clean, morally upright life and to worship and serve Him and their fellow men.

«Upright men can even better convince themselves of the solid grounds on which the teaching of the Church in this field is based, if they care to reflect upon the consequences of methods of artificial birth control.

The revolution he sought was not a violent leveling spasm but a gradual transformation of human souls, from yoked and cowering to free and upright — though he was enough of an inborn skeptic to doubt whether men truly wanted freedom.

Its dark these days David, probably more so in your part of the world than most, but «Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.»

To Luther's amazement, Erasmus when he was dying did not ask for the last sacrament, but his heir, who was with Erasmus at his death said, «As was his life, so was the death of this most upright of men.

However, Calvin said, if a man meets the tests of a profession of faith, an upright life, and participation in the sacraments, the probabilities are that he is among the elect and he should not worry.

If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believed (for no man can control the profession of another further than this; even if the other has endured, borne, suffered all for the Faith, an outsider can not get beyond what he says about himself, for a lie can be stretched precisely as far as the truth — in the eyes of men, but not in the sight of God), then he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchausen.

Maybe Bruce Smith wound up more like Willy Loman than Hobey Baker, dying the death of a so - so salesman instead of a widely sung hero, but he was an honorable man, an upright citizen.

Blood and bone of the strong, amiable, upright farming men of the Scottish Lowlands, James Clark, like the James Clark before him and the James Clark before him, is middle - sized (5 feet 7 1/2) and slender, with thick dark - brown hair, gray eyes and a husky, slightly nasal voice.

The former Burnley marksman drove across the face of goal, but watched the ball sail wide of the far upright; a major let - off for the now man - light Terriers.

However, some babies, man they just guzzle so voraciously and quickly that I find I need to take the bottle out of their mouth, sit them upright and give them a minute or two before offering the bottle again.

Idris, therefore, advised the celebrator, including officers and men of the force, to further rededicate themselves in the service of their fatherland, exhibit discipline, be upright in their official conduct and obey lawful orders.

I thought those who led our country to be polite, thoughtful, and upright men and women and I'm sure, out of the Chamber, that's how they are, but when facing each other in PMQs they turn sour, shaking their fists, hurling rude comments across the room.

A figure labeled Muscle Man stands upright, flayed bare and proudly dangling his full cloak of skin from one hand.

First discovered on the island of Java in 1891, and later unearthed in China, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Republic of Georgia, Homo erectus («upright man») was the first hominid to migrate out of Africa.

It belonged to an adult male of the species Homo erectus, a.k.a. «Upright Man» and is called «Skull 5» because it was the fifth set of hominid remains recovered at the archeological site, Dmanisi, located in the Caucausus of the Republic of Georgia.

The two worlds can not coexist, which makes tension escalate when Book is in their midst, as the Amish people remain skeptical of him as an upright man, although by our standards in the outside world, he very much is.

Unfortunately, Midler has the least screen time of any character, and DeVito plays a straight man, an upright police chief out to find out who tampered with Mona's car.

There is a lot of flair and bravado to the action sequences here, whether it be in - car chases, boat chases, Nazi torture doctors, and powerful slaps that can knock a man out while keeping him standing still upright, but your left solely appreciating the idiosyncratic nature of it all alongside some admittedly wonderful cinematography that captures these scenes with, again, style.

Bill Murray is on - point as the terminally lazy, but roguishly charming, Baloo, playing perfectly off Ben Kingsley's fatherly but tightly upright Bagheera as they navigate their way through the jungle in their attempt to return Mowgli to the world of man.

As an especially upright man in every other aspect of his life, it's not surprising Bill befriends a local down and out detective (Jason Isaacs), despite the threat this poses to his new career.

From a moment where we watch on as the priest, played by John Cusack, gives a sermon about the life - span of a gun and how the community is marketed it, to another moment where an upright man of the community wants to rally his other non-violent non-gang friends to ask «why do we need to suffer?»

The famous image of evolution — monkey, ape, hunched proto - hominid, fully evolved and upright modern man — encapsulates the myth as vividly as a cross, a crescent and a seated Buddha encapsulate the great world religions.

There is a great heap of dead men's bones lying all around... Therefore pass these Sirens by, and stop your men's ears with wax that none of them may hear; but if you like you can listen yourself, for you may get the men to bind you as you stand upright on a cross-piece half way up the mast, and they must lash the rope's ends to the mast itself, that you may have the pleasure of listening.

Clifford Still was a lean tree trunk of a man, tall and upright with rectitude.

Petrus Schaesberg was an upright man, whose presence was defined by a gentle nobility and love of art.

Never quench an upright man Stand beside him while you can Keep his candle burning bright To illuminate the night Beauty fades and power wanes Strength of character remains Nations rise and nations fall Moral worth outlasts them all