Sum and substance

Usage examples of essence.

How else can there be any acknowledgment which in its essence is faith?

An excellent poison can be swiftly produced under field conditions by boiling two baskets of oleander leaves, distilling the essence, and adding three ounces of dried aconite tubers.

If it is to be present at all, it cannot be an Actualization, for then it would not be the stray from Authentic Being which it is, the thing having its Being in Non-Beingness: for, note, in the case of things whose Being is a falsity, to take away the falsity is to take away what Being they have, and if we introduce actualization into things whose Being and Essence is Potentiality, we destroy the foundation of their nature since their Being is Potentiality.

It is easy to see that the method, while it gives unusual freshness to imaginative representation, is in essence hostile to all culture and all social form, and is psychologically akin to anarchism.

Substance: determine its property, and still you have not attained to its essence.

But, in sum, it is impossible to define Substance: determine its property, and still you have not attained to its essence.

But now, with the others gone, leaving the frightened Valeman alone with this unpredictable giant, Flick found himself unable to escape that terrible awesomeness that formed the essence of this strange man.

This axiom evidently expresses the symmetry of perpendicularity, and is the essence of the famous pons asinorum expressed as an axiom.

But the essence of his speech was that he might cut off the bauxite and other minerals.

So it may now be told that Zink is the vital essence and fused earth in Calamine ore.

While it might have seemed unusual for a government to be setting up procedures that allowed their agents to spy on the citizenry, in essence they were just planning ahead for the eventuality that an undercover operation might have to be run some day.

In essence it was meant to be a set of instructions to the courts of Canada to interpret federal laws in a way that would provide the maximum protection of individual rights - a worthwhile codification of legal ideals.

Those pure elements and primitive essences of created nature offered to the first men, still in a close communication with the Deity, not a likeness of resemblance, nor a mere fanciful image or a poetical figure, but a natural and true symbol of Divine power.

But the Very God, in His unmanifested Essence, conceived of as not yet having created and as Alone, has no Name.

The light and energy of a new day filled the air and Croft and the dog drank in the essence of both as they covered the ground toward the distant point of land at the end of the beach.