77 adjectives to describe commentary

The remainder of this introduction is from the work of Mr J. R, Forster, extracted partly from Ramusio, and partly consisting of an ingenious attempt to explain and bolster up the more than dubious production of Marcolini: But these observations are here considerably abridged; as an extended, grave, and critical commentary on a narrative we believe fabulous, might appear incongruous, though it did not seem proper to omit them altogether.

The book of Psalms; a devotional and prophetic commentary.

Besides the poems, it contained a brief prose commentary by the editor, the value of which is still very great, since we have the right to suppose that Adami's explanations embodied what he had received by word of mouth from Campanella.

Horace, born 65 B.C., like Virgil was also a favored man, enjoying the friendship of the great, and possessing ease, fame, and fortune; but his longings for retirement and his disgust at the frivolities around him are a sad commentary on satisfied desires.

After this there came a storm of tears and blessings, from which I made haste to escape, but not without carrying that curious commentary on my rashness away with me,"Without asking no questions?"

A more striking commentary on the vanity of human wishes could not, just then, have been offered to the consideration of the deacon.

The queen's description of the rise of a French opposition at once received a practical commentary.

His Annals are comprised in one hundred and forty-two books, extending from the foundation of the city to the death of Drusus, 9 B.C., of which only thirty-five have come down to us,an impressive commentary on the vandalism of the Middle Ages and the ignorance of the monks who could not preserve so great a treasure.

That anticipations and expressions so confident should have been met with a "commentary of events" so damaging, was sufficient, had the occasion not been so tragic, to cause laughter in the gravest of human beings.

Charles Pinckney, who, unaided, submitted the first concrete draft of the Constitution, was only twenty-nine, and Alexander Hamilton, who was destined to take a leading part in securing its ratification by his powerful oratory and his very able commentaries in the Federalist papers, was only thirty.

Folkloristic commentary by Roman Jakobson.

1. "The insolent commentary of the American Consul here, if it is true, clearly shows the intention of America to impose her will upon us by force.

A casual commentary.

This fact he pointed out to his companions curtly, with a philosophic commentary on the folly of "throwing up their hand before the game was played out."

DU BARTAS, GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE, SEIGNEUR. Works; a critical edition with introductory commentary & variants. Vol.2.

BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL, American mathematician, born at Salem, Massachusetts; a practical scientist; published "Practical Navigation," translated the "Mécanique Céleste" of Laplace, accompanied with an elaborate commentary (1773-1838).

The various documents are connected by Captain Desbrière with an explanatory commentary, and here and there are illustrated with notes.

Inane cymbalon juventutis is indeed a fitting commentary on such memory tasks.

The princess Leonora remonstrated with her poet on his folly, and Tasso, by way of palinode, wrote a fulsome commentary on three of Pigna's wooden canzoni, ranking them with Petrarch's.

Creation and providence, seen by the eye of theology, and elucidated by the glorious commentary on both furnished in the Scriptures, become new objects to the mind; immeasurably more noble, rich, and delightful, than they can appear to a worldly, sensual mind.

The result, as will be seen, furnished a grotesque commentary upon that portion of General Pope's order which we have italicized.

"She looks capable," was Patricia's grudging commentary, in slipping through the doorway into the twilight of the hall.

My own early ones no longer exist; but it would be a very searching test of our educational system to study these reports thirty-five years after and subject them to an honest commentary.

"Even as I stood hesitating, he furnished an illustrative commentary on my thoughts.

Naturally she could produce no very marked results in that brief period, and the remark is made that her work was of necessity of a pioneer and missionary character rather than one of immediate resultsa self-evident commentary.

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