preestablished harmony
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of preestablished harmony
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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It would amount to no more than two systems going on at the same time by a preestablished harmony, but totally independent of and disjointed from each other.
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin
Such, notably, are the poems to Laura, in which the lover's raptures are linked with the law of gravitation and the preestablished harmony of the world.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
The doctrine of "preestablished harmony" was an especial contrivance of Leibnitz to remove the Creator from unworthy association with the less divine acts of living beings.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
We see a Leibnitzian preestablished harmony between the character of the stratification and the character of the dogs.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey
No preestablished harmony this Of inner to outer realm corresponding, Nor spirit nor form by the other determined.
From The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Cora Lenore Williams
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