holy being
Example Sentences
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When the gods have bestowed such friendship upon a man, he can do nothing more than protect it carefully against everything external, and guard its holy being.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
It is supposed to deprive a deity or holy being of its holiness....
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
The virtuous choose, are virtuous by choice; the holy, being one, deliberate not—their volitions answering spontaneously to their desires.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
Yet the Pope is still a holy being.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington
This then cannot be applied to a holy being.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
