aeonian
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B. But if it be an excess of blindness which can overlook the aeonian differences amongst even neutral entities, much deeper is that blindness which overlooks the separate tendencies of things evil and things good.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
Tennyson, on the other hand, was already finding material for poetry in the world as seen through microscope and telescope, and as developed through "aeonian" processes of evolution.
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.
From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon
In memory of John Greenleaf Whittier, September 7, 1892," and this verse: "Some sweet morning, yet in God's Dim aeonian periods, Joyful I shall wake to see Those I love, who rest in Thee.
From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland
If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry
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