If the motive behind that bloody culmination were thwarted love, it was a thing to shrink from.

But you haven't told me yet how the dizzy culmination of your madness was reached.

Yet she had maintained the contact of the Greek race with western Europe during the two centuries of despair, and the interlude of her rule in Peloponnesos was a fitting culmination to her work; for, brief though it was, it effectively broke the Ottoman tradition, and left behind it a system of communal self-government among the Peloponnesian Greeks which the returning Turk was too feeble to sweep away.

It is so hard to love voluntarily,to satisfy one's self with minor affections,to know that life offers no more its grandest culmination, its divinest triumph,to accept a succession of wax-lights because the sun and the day can return no more,above all, to feel that the capacity of receiving that sunlight is fled,that, so far, one's own power is eternally narrowed, like the loss of a right hand or the blinding of a right eye!

This final step, which presents a completely organized trade with the element of competition utterly eliminated under the control of a single body of mere joint-owners of the capital engaged, must be regarded as the goal, the ideal culmination of the concentrative movement of modern capital.

The intuitive culmination of knowledge, in which the soul is united with God,since here even the antithesis of subject and object disappears,is but seldom attained; and it is difficult to keep out the disturbing symbols and images of sense, which mingle themselves in the intuition.

" "Nay," you cry in bitter protest, "Shall man have no perfect end, No millennial culmination, Toward which all the ages tend?

From the moment when the negative and positive culminations of the pre-Kantian movement in thoughtHume and Leibnitzcame together in one mind, the conditions of the Kantian reform were given, just as the preparation for the Socratic reform had been given in the skepticism of the Sophists and the [Greek: nous] principle of Anaxagoras.

He no longer turned to the financial reports in the papers; and the pedigree of the Woodses hung in the living-hall for all men to see, beginning gloriously with Woden, the Scandinavian god, and attaining a respectable culmination in the names of Frederick R. Woods and of William, his brother.

It is the great mystery of joy in which the race partakes; the spiritual culmination of all things earthly; the forecast of eternal things yet to be.

But it was at the University of Strassburg, even at the time when the unsmiling Calvin was seeking asylum there, that the dramatic life of the German seminaries found a splendid culmination.

It is my personal opinion that Verdun marks the supreme culmination of German military offensive in the West, and the West is the decisive theatre of war.

But these parallel tendencies, in all their strength and weakness, reached, as it were, symbolic culmination when the mediæval monarchy was extinguished, and the English squires gave to what was little more than a German squire the damaged and diminished crown.

So that the good old tradition of marriage for better or worse holds inexorably for him, and things work up to tragic culminations.

There is a tremendous culmination of the huge stone monuments on the capes and headlands of Brittany, where France thrusts herself forward against the Atlantic, centring in Carnac, the metropolis of a bygone world.

Defoe's romances of incident were the triumphant culmination of the picaresque type; Mrs. Haywood's sentimental tales were in many respects mere vague inchoations of a form as yet to be produced.