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  • I hope that will prove sufficient to enlighten you.†   (source)
  • And there's one more statement you made that I think should cap off what I think everyone here would agree has been a wonderfully enlightening and inspiring talk.†   (source)
  • Enlightening, I'd say, and they used the made-up town of Niceville, Mississippi, but who knows?†   (source)
  • She does not know — and I think it would be unwise to enlighten her — that she made the prophecy about you and Voldemort, you see.†   (source)
  • I do not have the advantage of what amounts to a weekly editorial column in The Grave, but I should like to use my brief time—between hymns, and before our prayer—to enlighten you on the subject of our dear old school's charter, and its constitution.†   (source)
  • Enlighten me.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you could enlighten me as to the article in question?†   (source)
  • Kneeling and facing Rosaura, Tita made an urgent request to Nacha to enlighten her at this time.†   (source)
  • "Seven and a half million years our race has waited for this Great and Hopefully Enlightening Day!" cried the cheerleader.†   (source)
  • Well, how about you enlighten us?†   (source)
  • He offered to enlighten me, and I gratefully accepted: he described how contraceptives work, and I asked him very boldly how boys could tell they were grown-up.†   (source)
  • This has been an enlightening talk, but I'm afraid you have to go now.†   (source)
  • "That's a very ...enlightening story, Nick," Tanner said.†   (source)
  • Care to enlighten me?†   (source)
  • I just thought it might be entertaining-as well as edifying and enlightening-if at some point we exchanged lists of all the locations at which we have either robbed or been robbed.†   (source)
  • Now was the time to start 'enlightening' the masses.†   (source)
  • Ladies, let me enlighten you about your next task in the Selection process.†   (source)
  • Please enlighten me, then, Jacob.†   (source)
  • But most especially, my most sincere gratitude goes to our true benefactor, El Jefe Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Champion of Education, Light of the Antilles, First Teacher, Enlightener of His People.†   (source)
  • Few people in California have done more than she to enlighten the public and prod lawmakers into reforming a mental health system that had been a national embarrassment for years.†   (source)
  • Very enlightening.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you could enlighten us a bit, sir.†   (source)
  • Enlighten me.†   (source)
  • Enlighten me.†   (source)
  • Thank you for those very creative and ....enlightening introductions.†   (source)
  • Please, then, enlighten me.†   (source)
  • Enlighten me.†   (source)
  • But the information he was getting from her was anything but enlightening.†   (source)
  • The fine gray eyes had been travelling from neck to belt, from shoulder to wrist of the lady who was enlightening her, "I think I never in all my life seen anything more sightly than that dress-body you're a-wearin'," she murmured softly.†   (source)
  • The party at the home of Judy's mother-in-law was enlightening.†   (source)
  • This should be enlightening.†   (source)
  • E-mail wasn't always an enlightening means of following Farmer on his travels, because he sometimes neglected to say where he was.†   (source)
  • The sun that lay on Lothlorien had no power to enlighten the shadow of that distant height.†   (source)
  • At a Thanksgiving dinner at our family home in 1975, I was only too happy to enlighten my father and the assembled family as to the "real" reason we fought Japan in World War II: American insensitivity to Japanese culture and FDR's severing of their oil lines forced Japan—an industrial beached whale—to attack Pearl Harbor in self-defense.†   (source)
  • Would you care to enlighten me?†   (source)
  • The more enlightening students.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise crushed the temptation to enlighten her young guests upon the probable clinical reasons for their loved ones' rapid growth, and she turned her attention to the Diaper Set, which distressed her beyond measure: When Jerry was two months old he looked up at me and said ...toilet training should really begin when ...he was christened he grabbed Mr. Stone by the hair and Mr. Stone ... wets the bed now.†   (source)
  • Enlighten me.†   (source)
  • Enlighten me.†   (source)
  • One might even say, enlightening.†   (source)
  • "Very enlightening," said Gillette.†   (source)
  • Enlightening.†   (source)
  • Thanks for an enlightening afternoon.†   (source)
  • My parents thought that traveling in a house trailer was as enlightening as sitting in a classroom, so I escaped being taught some of the typical lessons of my generation—for instance: that this country was "discovered" when the first white man set foot on it, that boys and girls were practically different species, and that Europe deserved more textbook space than Africa and Asia combined.†   (source)
  • This tour's very enlightening, but I'm curious that you've never once asked the purpose of our visit.†   (source)
  • Would you care to enlighten the court with this secret knowledge?†   (source)
  • The boy was known to the local railroad crews as Frankie, and Mrs. Taggart preferred not to enlighten them about his full name.†   (source)
  • They shall become missionaries to the cause, much like the Apostles themselves, enlightening the dark continent from shore to shore with the words of Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • Would you want to see this truth—even if it was as frightening as it was uplifting, as fearsome as it was joyous, as deeply and thoroughly strange as it was enlightening?†   (source)
  • If you would be so kind as to enlighten the court, Major.†   (source)
  • When it's over, Demetrius asks me what I thought, and I tell him it was eye-opening and enlightening and other things along those lines to make him feel good about the work he is doing, and then I chase down Amanda, as Rachel, in the parking lot before she can run away.†   (source)
  • So don't count on me to enlighten you.†   (source)
  • Gennaro, even less enlightening than Angelo was, invokes the protection of God and Saint Narcissus for Niccolo, and they all ride on.†   (source)
  • "Oh, these worms are found all through the caribou," I explained, with the enthusiasm of an expert enlightening a layman.†   (source)
  • There is no better way to establish hope for the future than to enlighten young minds, and we would be honored to sponsor summer youth exchanges, cultural events, and other programs for young Berliners from the East.†   (source)
  • I'd be grateful to you if you didn't enlighten her, if you receive my meaning.†   (source)
  • Poor child, he had even to suffer the behaviour of his elders, who stared-those who had not seen him before-and nudged each other and whispered and rustled, while those who had vied with each other to be the first to enlighten them.†   (source)
  • Enlighten me, Sam.†   (source)
  • So then enlighten me, Mama.†   (source)
  • If he can enlighten me on these obscure and delicate points, I'd be only too delighted.†   (source)
  • He had been lying on the beach, but he now grunted, stirred, and set about enlightening the doctor on his position.†   (source)
  • We can improve our democratic processes, we can enlighten our understanding of its problems, and we can increase our respect for those men of integrity who find it necessary, from time to time, to act contrary to public opinion.†   (source)
  • I felt strongly tempted, at times, to enlighten my mother and sister on the real character and circumstances of the persecuted tenant of Wildfell Hall,   (source)
  • Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?   (source)
  • A longing to enlighten her was strong in him; and there were moments when he imagined that all she asked was to be enlightened.   (source)
  • I always enjoyed the chance to enlighten a clueless mortal.†   (source)
  • 'Very enlightening,' said the psychiatrist, as bewildered as he was appalled.†   (source)
  • ...You might add that'll include the location of a cemetery that might prove enlightening.†   (source)
  • Before I slay you, perhaps you'll enlighten me.†   (source)
  • I really was sorry and forgiveness felt...enlightening.†   (source)
  • The talk between him and his hostess had been enlightening to both of them.†   (source)
  • "I fail to see the relevance," Judge Atlee replied, and Jake was not about to enlighten him.†   (source)
  • If you hold your tongue, I may enlighten you.†   (source)
  • The Duke does not, perhaps may not, enlighten us.†   (source)
  • I will let the General enlighten you.†   (source)
  • Then perhaps you should enlighten us?†   (source)
  • Believe me, I've heard all the stories about the Masonic Pyramid and its promise of some great treasure that will enlighten mankind.†   (source)
  • Intent to remedy the image of our homeland as backward, my father took it upon himself to enlighten Americans whenever possible.†   (source)
  • I always had the urge to enlighten them: "Look, you're about to consume ten thousand calories of fat, so a diet drink isn't going to make a difference.†   (source)
  • I had envisioned myself spending evenings having enlightening discussions over home-cooked French meals.†   (source)
  • Perhaps someday you might enlighten me.†   (source)
  • Aunt May's spirit, Miss Lucy's kindness, Miss Marlee's buoyancy, and Mom's strength were invaluable, and more enlightening than any class I ever took.†   (source)
  • He waited for someone to enlighten him.†   (source)
  • When asked about their experience of writing a This I Believe essay, many students admit that they had to write it for an assignment, though most also admit that they found the experience to be quite enlightening.†   (source)
  • 'Very enlightening,' said Panov, staring at the prone man, not knowing what else to say, grateful that the platform was now practically deserted and the pillar at the rear was in shadows.†   (source)
  • No one ever told me, not my parents or my sisters or my teachers, until now, right this minute, in the "Wander Indiana" section of U.S. Geography—the one that was implemented by the school board this year in an effort to "enlighten students as to the rich history available in their own home state and inspire Hoosier pride."†   (source)
  • I was relieved to be out of that classroom, which seemed cold without Toby's enlightening commentaries, until I got into the cafeteria.†   (source)
  • As for the women who show rebellion, you shall first enlighten them, then desert them in bed, and you may beat them as a last resort.†   (source)
  • She had given him her name; she did not know why she now felt glad that he had not recognized it and why she preferred not to enlighten him.†   (source)
  • A rumor, persistent and enlightening, said that she and her husband made some of the best moonshine in the lowcountry during the bootleggers' heyday.†   (source)
  • One day something happened which in a roundabout way was enlightening.†   (source)
  • I, of course, couldn't enlighten her as to that.†   (source)
  • He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.†   (source)
  • He raised the crucifix at the end of his beads and prayed that God would forgive them, would enlighten their ignorance, and bring them at last — as Saul the persecutor was brought —into his eternal kingdom.†   (source)
  • No one could enlighten him.†   (source)
  • A poem by Eliot and a poem by Eddie Guest — what perspective of culture is large enough to enable us to situate them in an enlightening relation to each other?†   (source)
  • His answer was enlightening.†   (source)
  • Stella: No, Stanley, I haven't heard of the Napoleonic code and if I have, I don't see what it — Stanley: Let me enlighten you on a point or two, baby.†   (source)
  • After that, there were wheezings and moanings for a bit, the chink of metal which I took to be from one of the trumpets, some conversation, not very enlightening or edifying, from Princess Spotted Deer, who was Miss Littlepaugh's control, and some even more unenlightening remarks, given in a husky guttural, from somebody on the Other Side who claimed to be named Jimmy and to have been a friend of my youth.†   (source)
  • How strange and enlightening and terrible had been her experience!†   (source)
  • So I pray you, if it may be, enlighten him not, least it may harm.†   (source)
  • However, she consented to enlighten those two poor innocents.†   (source)
  • Her next question was not of a nature to enlighten him.†   (source)
  • Much was being done to enlighten these poor people.†   (source)
  • They do nothing towards enlightening the slave, whilst they do much towards enlightening the master.†   (source)
  • 'Now, Ernest,' said I, 'enlighten me on the subject of this adventure!†   (source)
  • But if I hit harder in my ignorance than I need, remember it is you who refuse to enlighten me.†   (source)
  • I wish you to understand that I shall not say anything to enlighten Mr. Casaubon himself.†   (source)
  • clemency is the only light which can enlighten the interior of so great a soul.†   (source)
  • Now you are enlightening the world indeed!†   (source)
  • We have that of the priestly character, that we have some knowledge to enlighten our valour.†   (source)
  • let us never enlighten the people with false daylight.†   (source)
  • But I do mind,' said Fanny, 'and so will you, Pet, when I enlighten you.†   (source)
  • 'Mr Casby could enlighten her, perhaps?'†   (source)
  • And let you, Stephen, make a novena to your holy patron saint, the first martyr, who is very powerful with God, that God may enlighten your mind.†   (source)
  • If I had only known what was going on like I know now I could have stood it I guess for I am pretty strong, but those who should have, did not see fit to enlighten me.†   (source)
  • By and by that last enlightening moment came, and Madeline Hammond faced not only the love in her heart, but the thought of the man she loved.†   (source)
  • But after slyly studying him at intervals, the old Merlin's equivocal merriment was modified; for now when the twain would meet, it would start in his face a quizzing sort of look, but it would be but momentary and sometimes replaced by an expression of speculative query as to what might eventually befall a nature like that, dropped into a world not without some man—traps and against whose subtleties simple courage, lacking experience and address and without any touch of defensive ugliness, is of little avail; and where such innocence as man is capable of does yet in a moral emergency not always sharpen the faculties or enlighten the will.†   (source)
  • The meal was passed in commonplace talk of what he had been doing during the morning at the Abbey Mill, of the methods of bolting and the old-fashioned machinery, which he feared would not enlighten him greatly on modern improved methods, some of it seeming to have been in use ever since the days it ground for the monks in the adjoining conventual buildings—now a heap of ruins.†   (source)
  • Of this Brown was not aware, and Kassim, who came up the knoll an hour before sunset, took good care not to enlighten him.†   (source)
  • A longing to enlighten her was strong in him; and there were moments when he imagined that all she asked was to be enlightened.†   (source)
  • She studied the envelope for five minutes as though an examination of the paper itself and the look of my handwriting could enlighten her as to the nature of the contents, or tell her to which article of her code she ought to refer the matter.†   (source)
  • Jude was extremely, morbidly, curious about her life as Phillotson's protegee and betrothed; yet she would not enlighten him.†   (source)
  • This is so to such an extent that Negroes in this country, who themselves or whose forefathers went through the school of slavery, are constantly returning to Africa as missionaries to enlighten those who remained in the fatherland.†   (source)
  • She went off into more intimate inquiries as to what was done and how, but Clyde could not enlighten her.†   (source)
  • I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.†   (source)
  • He meant her (thanks to his enlightening companionship) to develop a social tact and readiness of wit enabling her to hold her own with the most popular married women of the "younger set," in which it was the recognised custom to attract masculine homage while playfully discouraging it.†   (source)
  • , or sometimes would interrogate a passing stranger, or would make a mental note of how she was dressed so as to fix her identity, later, in the mind of a friend better informed than themselves, who would at once enlighten them.†   (source)
  • And yet in spite of this sly and yet muddy tergiversation on his part—so great is the compelling and enlightening power of necessity—she could still see that there was some point to his argument.†   (source)
  • And my right to make that is simply the universal right of a man to enlighten a woman when he sees her unconsciously placed in a false position.†   (source)
  • and had said politely: "It is very good of you to have come, Doctor, especially as I'm sure you must often have heard Sarah Bernhardt; and besides, I'm afraid we're rather too near the stage," the Doctor, who had come into the box with a smile which waited before settling upon or vanishing from his face until some one in authority should enlighten him as to the merits of the spectacle, replied: "To be sure, we are far too near the stage, and one is getting sick of Sarah Bernhardt.†   (source)
  • That's an odd expression, ain't it?" in the hope of an enlightening commentary, which, however, was not forthcoming.†   (source)
  • I mean you to accompany me to Millcote this morning; and while you prepare for the drive, I will enlighten the old lady's understanding.†   (source)
  • He was desirous of an explosion, because in that case the mine throws forth fire, and fire enlightens.†   (source)
  • Said he who could it 90
    To tell the first fashion of men from aforetime;
    Quoth how the Almighty One made the Earth's fashion,
    The fair field and bright midst the bow of the Waters,
    And with victory beglory'd set Sun and Moon,
    Bright beams to enlighten the biders on land:
    And how he adorned all parts of the earth
    With limbs and with leaves; and life withal shaped
    For the kindred of each thing that quick on earth wendeth.†   (source)
  • But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.†   (source)
  • "Hadn't you better see," says Mr. Tulkinghorn to Krook, "whether he had any papers that may enlighten you?†   (source)
  • He was thinking that Prince Andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not see the true light, and that he, Pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and raise him.†   (source)
  • I had a similar notion; and, remembering Mrs. Dean's anecdote of his first attempt at enlightening the darkness in which he had been reared, I observed, — 'But, Mrs. Heathcliff, we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold; had our teachers scorned instead of aiding us, we should stumble and totter yet.'†   (source)
  • We will go to our duty while Mrs. O'Dowd will stay and enlighten you, Emmy," Captain Osborne said; and the two gentlemen, taking each a wing of the Major, walked out with that officer, grinning at each other over his head.†   (source)
  • Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.†   (source)
  • Noah Claypole, bespeaking his good lady's attention, proceeded to enlighten her relative to the arrangement he had made, with all that haughtiness and air of superiority, becoming, not only a member of the sterner sex, but a gentleman who appreciated the dignity of a special appointment on the kinchin lay, in London and its vicinity.†   (source)
  • But this base, if noble world, it appeared, was after all what one was to live for; one was to keep it forever in one's eye, in order not to enlighten or convert or redeem it, but to extract from it some recognition of one's own superiority.†   (source)
  • This was wholly unintelligible to Nicholas, who had no other distinct impression on his mind at the moment, than that Miss Squeers was an ordinary-looking girl, and her friend Miss Price a pretty one; but he had not time to enlighten himself by reflection, for the hearth being by this time swept up, and the candle snuffed, they sat down to play speculation.†   (source)
  • I didn't try to enlighten him, feeling the task too heavy; but I pulled out my magnificent pipe and fell a-smoking, and the old horse jogged on again.†   (source)
  • A nocturnal rain, the wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bulow's guide enlightening him,— the whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted.†   (source)
  • They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them.†   (source)
  • Can you enlighten me on that point?†   (source)
  • Should I fall, therefore, seek no victims to my manes, but rather forgive my destroyers; and if you remember them at all, let it be in prayers for the enlightening of their minds, and for their eternal welfare.†   (source)
  • And in this way the ring will be broken up, you see, and then in every issue of the paper we will enlighten the public on the Mayor's incapability on one point and another, and make it clear that all the positions of trust in the town, the whole control of municipal affairs, ought to be put in the hands of the Liberals.†   (source)
  • I wish to make a fair bargain with you, that you shall enlighten me concerning the Dorrit family when you have it in your power, as I have enlightened you.†   (source)
  • Here's a fine fitness for practising pharmacy later on; for under serious circumstances you may be called before the tribunals in order to enlighten the minds of the magistrates, and you would have to keep your head then, to reason, show yourself a man, or else pass for an imbecile.†   (source)
  • Hutter never listened to this simple strain without finding his heart and manner softened; facts that his daughter well knew, and by which she had often profited, through the sort of holy instinct that enlightens the weak of mind, more especially in their aims toward good.†   (source)
  • Not another word had I heard to enlighten me on the subject of my expectations, and my twenty-third birthday was a week gone.†   (source)
  • His countenance was calm, and his quick, dark, eagle eye moved over the leafy panorama, as if to take in at a glance every circumstance that might enlighten his mind.†   (source)
  • The awkwardness of searching for him lay in enlightening Elizabeth, a proceeding which her mother could not endure to contemplate.†   (source)
  • The sunshine might now be seen stealing down the front of the opposite house, from the windows of which came a reflected gleam, struggling through the boughs of the elm-tree, and enlightening the interior of the shop more distinctly than heretofore.†   (source)
  • We've said the enlightening word.†   (source)
  • Come, let us endeavor to get to the end of our story, Beauchamp; I told you that yesterday Madame made inquiries of me upon the subject; enlighten me, and I will then communicate my information to her.†   (source)
  • Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them capable of receiving it.†   (source)
  • This compromise, which was proposed with abundance of tears and sighs, not exactly meeting the point at issue, nobody took any notice of it; and poor Mrs Nickleby accordingly proceeded to enlighten Mrs Browdie upon the advantages of such a scheme, and the unhappy results flowing, on all occasions, from her not being attended to when she proffered her advice.†   (source)
  • She did not enlighten him, and lest silence should allow her to shape thoughts unfavourable to their present friendly relations, he diverted the discourse into another channel.†   (source)
  • As Judith read a letter she put it into his hands to hold until she could peruse the next; but this served in no degree to enlighten her companion, as he was totally unable to read.†   (source)
  • M. de Monte Cristo may have heard it, and to enlighten himself—but why should he wish to enlighten himself upon the subject?" asked Villefort, after a moment's reflection, "what interest can this M. de Monte Cristo or M. Zaccone,—son of a shipowner of Malta, discoverer of a mine in Thessaly, now visiting Paris for the first time,—what interest, I say, can he take in discovering a gloomy, mysterious, and useless fact like this?†   (source)
  • Hetty's instinct of right, if such a term can be applied to one who seemed taught by some kind spirit how to steer her course with unerring accuracy, between good and evil, would have revolted at Hurry's character on a thousand points, had there been opportunities to enlighten her, but while he conversed and trifled with her sister, at a distance from herself, his perfection of form and feature had been left to produce their influence on her simple imagination and naturally tender feelings, without suffering by the alloy of his opinions and coarseness.†   (source)
  • 'Shot beyond him, I mean,' resumed Nicholas, 'in quite another respect, for, whereas he brought within the magic circle of his genius, traditions peculiarly adapted for his purpose, and turned familiar things into constellations which should enlighten the world for ages, you drag within the magic circle of your dulness, subjects not at all adapted to the purposes of the stage, and debase as he exalted.†   (source)
  • An old broken lantern which I have just seen at a bric-a-brac merchant's suggests a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race.†   (source)
  • His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the folds of his cloak, together with his manner of disregarding his companion and addressing the opposite wall instead, seemed to intimate that he was rehearsing for the President, whose examination he was shortly to undergo, rather than troubling himself merely to enlighten so small a person as John Baptist Cavalletto.†   (source)
  • If it still exists in you,—and I hope it does,—reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a word from you may enlighten.†   (source)
  • Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green boughs from the oaks.†   (source)
  • Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered with gloom by the right divine, Caesarian glory, force, fanaticism, irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs of the night.†   (source)
  • You are a prelate,—revenues, palace, horses, servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable intention of bringing wisdom to me.†   (source)
  • If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir.†   (source)
  • There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them.†   (source)
  • Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit to wealth, in creating vas†   (source)
  • He said that it had been propos'd among them, but not agreed to, for this reason: "When we were first drawn together as a society," says he, "it had pleased God to enlighten our minds so far as to see that some doctrines, which we once esteemed truths, were errors; and that others, which we had esteemed errors, were real truths.†   (source)
  • Feelings rather natural than heroic possessed her; instead of considering her own dignity injured by this ready condemnation—instead of proudly resolving, in conscious innocence, to show her resentment towards him who could harbour a doubt of it, to leave to him all the trouble of seeking an explanation, and to enlighten him on the past only by avoiding his sight, or flirting with somebody else—she took to herself all the shame of misconduct, or at least of its appearance, and was only eager for an opportunity of explaining its cause.†   (source)
  • But on this point enlighten me: are you removing treasure here amassed for safety abroad, until the war is past?†   (source)
  • The local superintendent, who remained through the week while the other enlighteners went to other Chautauquas for their daily performances.†   (source)
  • But as it is in no way proved that the aim of humanity does consist in freedom, equality, enlightenment, or civilization, and as the connection of the people with the rulers and enlighteners of humanity is only based on the arbitrary assumption that the collective will of the people is always transferred to the men whom we have noticed, it happens that the activity of the millions who migrate, burn houses, abandon agriculture, and destroy one another never is expressed in the account of the activity of some dozen people who did not burn houses, practice agriculture, or slay their fellow creatures.†   (source)
  • "Read more, your worship," said Sancho, "and you will find something that will enlighten us."   (source)
  • All this I know well myself, more by experience than by hearsay, and some day, señora, I will enlighten you on the subject, for I am of your flesh and blood too.   (source)
    enlighten = provide better understanding to
  • You need air and exercise, and I can perhaps make the occasion spiritually beneficial as well, by enlightening you as to the ritual of Perpetual Adoration as we go.†   (source)
  • Enlighten'd thus, my just commands fulfil, Nor fear obedience to your mother's will.†   (source)
  • 18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.†   (source)
  • 19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.†   (source)
  • Look downward on that globe, whose hither side
    With light from hence, though but reflected, shines;
    That place is Earth, the seat of Man; that light
    His day, which else, as the other hemisphere,
    Night would invade; but there the neighbouring moon
    (So call that opposite fair star) her aid
    Timely interposes, and her monthly round
    Still ending, still renewing, through mid Heaven,
    With borrowed light her countenance triform
    Hence fills and empties to enlighten the Earth,
    And in her pale dominion checks the night.†   (source)
  • I must not omit another thing, proceeding from the experience I had in my retirement: It was that infinite and inexpressible blessing, the knowledge of God through Jesus Christ, which was so plain and easy to be understood, as immediately to direct me to carry on the great work of sincere repentance for my sins, and laying hold of a Saviour for eternal life, to a practical stated reformation, and obedience to all God's institutions, without the assistance of a reverend and orthodox divine; and especially by this same instruction, so to enlighten this savage creature, as to make him so good a Christian, as very few could exceed him.†   (source)
  • the Word was made Flesh;" that is to say, the Word, or Promise that Christ should come into the world, "who in the beginning was with God;" that is to say, it was in the purpose of God the Father, to send God the Son into the world, to enlighten men in the way of Eternall life, but it was not till then put in execution, and actually incarnate; So that our Saviour is there called "the Word," not because he was the promise, but the thing promised.†   (source)
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