existences

In a letter to John Adams, he wrote, To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings.

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Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage says “except for the fact that almost every handbook in existences worries about it, it is not important at all.”

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The phraseology of Buddhism calls existences in heavens and hells new births.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

What does this delightful passage go to show, if not that the young in all these cases must still have a latent memory of their past existences, which is called into an active condition as soon as the associated ideas present themselves?

Life and Habit Samuel Butler 1868

The reality of these so-called existences I deny, because they are not to be found in God, and this system is built on Him as the sole cause.

Unity of Good Mary Baker Eddy 1865

'_substance_' of matter, to the existence of which no limit can be set either in time or space, is the infinite and eternal substratum of all actual and possible existences, which is the doctrine of philosophical materialism, as I understand it, I have no objection to his holding that doctrine; and I fail to comprehend how it can have the slightest influence upon any ethical or religious views he may please to hold ....

Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' Oliver Lodge 1895

Atmanah parinirmitam pralayam means that destruction or cessation of existences which is brought about by self-realization.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

In the same strata with these inhabitants habitants of the early seas are found remains of fucoid or seaweed-like plants, the lowest of the vegetable tribe, which may have been the first of this kind of existences introduced into the world.

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But the image it has seen, remains, in the eternal procreation, as a homogeneal existence, is again renewed, and the seeming death, from moment to moment, becomes the source of kind after kind of existences in ever-ascending series.

Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

Joan of Arc is rendered in a style so photorealistic it is almost a parody of photorealism, reminding the viewer that humans are total idiots caught up in the phony nothingness of their day-to-day "existences".

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