The sex conflict has been the cause for the origin and the survival of certain physical and mental traits, helpful in sex attraction, sex combat, the growth of the embryo, and the nutrition and safety of the young of a species,in short, the whole process of sexual selection.

There was a careful selection of foodstuffs to be taken along.

But if a judicious selection of the bones were deposited in a suitable place, together with some object clearly identifiable as appertaining to the deceased, it seemed to me that the difficulty would be met.

[Footnote 32: For full titles of books of dramatic selections, see the preceding paragraph.]

391-424, contains representative selections from Swift's prose.

Historical selections.

And so artists and scientists, philosophers and politicians, financiers and religious leaders, arise and survive by the operation of the laws of probabilities and chances, rather than by any intelligent selection and cultivation of material.

He had a faint idea that, even from his own point of view, he might have made a better selection for his niece's hand.

Instrumental church service selections; selections for organ or piano.

Like the sturdy little Shetland pony, this dog has not been made small by artificial selection.

The least expensive volume to cover nearly the entire field with brief selections is Vol.

The following selection shows some of the curious rules for the guidance of the anchoresses, and furnishes a specimen of the Southern dialect of transitional English prose in the early part of the thirteenth century: "ße, mine leoue sustren, ne schulen habben no best bute kat one...

Briefly, by a process of scientific selection it puts each worker in the job for which he is best fitted, and teaches him exactly how to use the most efficient tools with which he would be provided.

When his sneers against Lady Byron and her mother are recorded, it would lessen their effect if it were shown that he sneered at all man and womankind in turn; and that the friend of his choicest selection, or the mistress of his maddest love, were served no better, when the maggot (selfishness) bit, than his wife or his mother-in-law.

Thus nature in its own blind way produces a result of the same kind as that which the will of man would bring about by subjective selection.

For a short typical selection from Walpole's Castle of Otranto, see Chambers.

Wills was then appointed second by Burke, and Wright, who was supposed to be acquainted with the locality which they were approaching, was engaged as third, another most unfortunate selection.

It was I who first made ragtime transcriptions of familiar classic selections.

SELECTION AND RACE Difference between the best specimens of a poor race and the mediocre ones of a high race; typical centres to which races tend to revert; delicacy of highly-bred animals; their diminished fertility; the misery of rigorous selection; it is preferable to replace poor races by better ones; strains of emigrant blood; of exiles.

I have made for the Ballantynes a little selection of poetry, to be entitled "English Minstrelsy"; I also intend to arrange for them a first volume of English Memoirs, to be entitled"Secret History of the Court of James I." To consist of: Osborne's "Traditional Memoirs.

By one rich pillar, by some projecting balustrade taken in conjunction with a moored gondola, we should strive to evoke the soul of the city of Veronese: by the magical and unequalled selection of a subtle and unexpected feature of a thought or aspect of a landscape, and not by the up-piling of extraneous detail, are all great poetic effects achieved.

© on edited & illustrated selections; 11Sep25, A872109.

Imitation, then, to him, meant a conscious selection and plastic mastery of the sense impressions stored as images by the image-forming faculty of the author, whose writings are addressed to the imagination of the reader or auditor.

Such things influence a rational selection in marriage, but they do not control passionate love, which is our matter.

POETRY.The numerous poetic selections, some of which are partly analyzed by way of suggestion, will create a love for the highest and purest forms of literature, will broaden the field of knowledge, and emphasize the teachings of some of the prose selections.