All 19 Uses of
doctrine
in
Selected Essays
- The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man,——present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man.†
Chpt 1.
- But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some pre-established harmony, some foresight of souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future wants, like the fact observed in insects, who lay up food before death for the young grub they shall never see.†
Chpt 1.
- But I have already shown the ground of my hope, in adverting to the doctrine that man is one.†
Chpt 1.
- The documents,[94] too, from which the doctrine is to be drawn, charmed my fancy by their endless variety, and lay always before me, even in sleep; for they are the tools in our hands, the bread in our basket, the transactions of the street, the farm, and the dwelling-house, greetings, relations, debts and credits, the influence of character, the nature and endowment of all men.†
Chpt 2.
- It appeared, moreover, that if this doctrine could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours and crooked passages in our journey that would not suffer us to lose our way.†
Chpt 2.
- The preacher, a man esteemed for his orthodoxy, unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment.†
Chpt 2.
- No offense appeared to be taken by the congregation at this doctrine.†
Chpt 2.
- I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day, and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.†
Chpt 2. *
- Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him in his own experience; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate.†
Chpt 2.
- The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.†
Chpt 2.
- This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis,[120] who keeps watch in the universe, and lets no offense go unchastised.†
Chpt 2.
- The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price,——and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get anything without its price,——is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and reaction of nature.†
Chpt 2.
- But the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency.†
Chpt 2.
- But the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency.†
Chpt 2.
- I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.†
Chpt 3.
- The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.†
Chpt 3.
- The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.†
Chpt 3.
- High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!†
Chpt 3.
- And the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being, from the center to the poles of nature, and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime luster to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.†
Chpt 8.
Definition:
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(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group