"ancient" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That development not only violated an ancient Jewish precept, but, unless past patterns were reversed, it also augured the almost certain loss of a real sense of Jewishness among those couples' children or grandchildren.
- "We are obliged by the most ancient precepts of our way to rear them to term and subsequently turn them over to their own folk."
- Senbríathra Fithail 'The ancient precepts of Fíthal'
- You would run afoul of that ancient precept "Two wrongs don't make a broken antique lamp whole again."
- We followed the ancient precept: "Nakedness is often seen but never looked at."
- In every library, by ancient precept, is a room reserved for children.
- Yet that moral emphasis seems doctrinaire and rigid as practiced by the most devout, who seem unwilling to adapt ancient precepts to modern circumstances.
- Masonic Landmarks are a set of principles that many Freemasons claim to be "both ancient and unchangeable precepts of Masonry".
- Running their corporation according to the ancient precepts of the Talmud, they shunned all publicity and trusted only a handful of associates.
- And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
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