They were expected to think well of their rule and their rulers; but the most perspicacious exposure of what he called the infirmities of the company was composed by Mariana. ❋ John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton (1868)
Considering her numerous labours, duties, journeys, sicknesses, and infirmities, is it not surprising how she could find time to carry on such an extensive correspondence? ❋ Unknown (1902)
So that Paul instead of desiring the infirmity to "depart," "rather" henceforth "glories in infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest (Greek, 'tabernacle upon,' cover my infirmity all over as with a tabernacle; compare Greek, Joh 1: 12) upon" him. ❋ Unknown (1871)
He proceeds to illustrate the "glorying in infirmities" (2Co 11: 30). ❋ Unknown (1871)
He took pleasure in infirmities for our sakes, to teach us to do so for his sake. ❋ Unknown (1721)
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. ❋ Unknown (1721)
"With bitter physic purge the bitter bile," [730] so vexed and bitter are you at people's weaknesses and infirmities, which is not reasonable in you. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (N/A)
Surely one of our infirmities is our weakness of faith. ❋ 1817-1893 (1913)
The sources of his infirmities were a scanty and precarious allowance from the father, the want of a regular plan for some profession, and, above all, the act of throwing him upon the town, when he ought to have been pursuing his studies at the University. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)
Christ delights even in the saints on earth, notwithstanding their weaknesses and manifold infirmities, which is a good reason why we should. ❋ Unknown (1721)
a serum for many ills and infirmities, which is called whey, as it looks much like that of milk. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)
The "infirmities" which had caused the good Syndic to seek relief from political cares must have been purely magisterial. ❋ Constance Lindsay Skinner (1908)
Healed either of "evil spirits" or of some one of the "infirmities" here referred to -- the ordinary diseases of humanity -- she joins in the ❋ Unknown (1871)
His glorying in his other self, to which the revelations were vouchsafed, was not in order to give glory to his fleshly self, but to bring out in contrast the "infirmities" of the latter, that Christ might have all the glory. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Christ took on Himself all man's "infirmities;" so as to remove them; the bodily by direct miracle, grounded on His participation in human infirmities; those of the soul by His vicarious suffering, which did away with the source of both. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Argyle's declaration, he farther says, "Let all beware of refusing to join with ministers or professors, upon account of personal infirmities, which is ready to raise prejudice among persons. ❋ John Howie (1764)
"infirmities" about them, and whose feet still clung to the miry clay, though they did think their heads were in heavenly places! ❋ William Hawley Smith (N/A)
The final downturn in church attendance among those who came of age before 1940 at the top of the chart probably reflects the impact of infirmities, as that cohort aged through their eighties. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)
Nor can they be explained by the myth of the Negro's innate incapacities, or by the more sophisticated rationalization of his acquired infirmities. ❋ Dedrick Muhammad (2011)
Infirmity-infirmities of [old age] ❋ Tanker2004 (2019)
I make sure to always have any and all relevant infirmation [handy] whenever I re-apply for [SSI] and [Food Stamps]. ❋ QuacksO (2023)
