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Meanings of empty forms in English

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Usage of empty forms in English
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Of Itself it possesses only the empty forms of its operation.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economic...
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Her eyes went down the long bare room with its empty forms and ink-splashed desks.
The Obstacle Race
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His empty forms and ceremonies could not please God.
Town and Country Sermons
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What you call the empty forms and outside of things seem to me the very things themselves.
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sce...
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After his death, men used the empty forms awhile; but the surviving aristocrats had learned their awful lesson.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Ris...
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Those who attempt to represent God by images or pictures do but vainly occupy themselves with empty forms.
New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening
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And I hate empty forms.
The Market-Place
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All too easily our religious statements become empty forms, separated from the vitality and meaning which they are supposed to express.
Herein is Love / A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its...
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He wanted to take the empty forms of the Law and fill them full of the Spirit-thereal thought and love of God.
Child's Story of the Bible
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Jesus was ever a foe of the narrow formalism which clings close to the empty forms and words, and which ignores the Spirit.
Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master
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"Ah, there we will doubtless meet with many of the good brethren who do not observe empty forms and foolish ceremonies."
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
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