contrarieties

The damsel spoke first, for Roland Graeme was overwhelmed with surprise at the contrarieties which Catherine Seyton seemed to include in her person and character.

The Abbot 2008

God may effect, yet that judgment that shall consider the present antipathies between the two extremes, — their contrarieties in condition, affection, and opinion, — may, with the same hopes, expect a union in the poles of heaven.

Religio Medici 2007

Vives said in a jest of a silly country fellow, that killed his ass for drinking up the moon, ut lunam mundo redderet, you may truly say of them in earnest; they will act, conceive all extremes, contrarieties, and contradictions, and that in infinite varieties.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And herein is divinity conformant unto philosophy, and generation not only founded on contrarieties, but also creation.

Religio Medici 2007

While their contrarieties indicate a different external civilization, a slight acquaintance with their morals proves their similarity to their fellowmen in the lineaments of a fallen nature.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

God often works by contrarieties, he first kills and then makes alive, he woundeth first and then healeth, he makes man sow in tears that he may reap in joy; 'tis God's method: he that is so visited, must with patience endure and rest satisfied for the present.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

He is the one who has had to face and deal with all the contrarieties that Valencianos had to suffer over a decade.

11/19/2006 - 11/26/2006 2006

He is the one who has had to face and deal with all the contrarieties that Valencianos had to suffer over a decade.

Chavez at his vilest self in Valencia 2006

Less bothered by such contrarieties, my mother threw the occasional charity kalooki night for our beleaguered Israeli cousins, the proceeds from which would not have bought a stamp to send what she had raised.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

Sexual intercourse can be compared to a quarrel, on account of the contrarieties of love and its tendency to dispute.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana 2006