All 6 Uses of
passage
in
Selected Essays
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Those "far from fame," who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of his constitution in the doings and passages of the day better than it can be measured by any public and designed display.†
Chpt 1.
- 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.
- When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.†
Chpt 3. *
- It is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death.†
Chpt 4.
- Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate, in which Burke[429] and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness, that the house was moved to tears.†
Chpt 6.
- But the play contains, through all its length, unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand, and some passages, as the account of the coronation,[546] are like autographs.†
Chpt 9.
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More frequently, passage refers to a passageway for travel or to the act of traveling. It can also refer to the passing of time or of a law. See a comprehensive dictionary for the many meanings of passage, but for comfort taking standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, be very familiar with passage being used to refer to a short excerpt from a longer written work.