11.In treating of the quantity and quality of the vowels, Walker says, "The first distinction of sound that seems to obtrude itself upon us when we utter the vowels, is a long and a short sound, according to the greater or less duration of time taken up in pronouncing them.

The distinction between the realist and the idealist is a matter of temperament.

This distinction is primeval.

Had the Mesuriers possessed a coat-of-arms, James Mesurier would probably have kept it locked up as a frivolity to be ashamed of, for it was a part of his Puritanism that such earthly distinctions were foolishness with God; but, as a matter of fact, between Adam and the immediate great-grandparents of the young Mesuriers, there was a void which the Herald's office would have found a difficulty in filling.

Don't for mercy's sake think I hate them; the distinction is one my friend or I drew long ago.

The distinction and end of a soundly constituted man is his labor.

This tone consisted chiefly in making the proper distinction between the laws of the Production of Wealthwhich are laws of nature, dependent on the properties of objectsand the modes of its Distribution, which, subject to certain conditions, depend on human will.

Even the common man, he argues, desires nothing more than that his perceptions be real; the distinction between idea and object is an invention of philosophers.

But these idols we've burned And have latterly learned That "distinction"'s an utter delusion; For if you would aim At a popular fame You must cultivate "vim" or effusion.

I think that the artificial distinctions in society, the separation between the higher and the lower orders, the aristocracy of wealth and education, are the very rock of pauperism, and that the only way to eradicate this plague from our land will be to associate with the poor, and the wicked too, just as our Redeemer did.

DISTINCTIONS, all are trifles, iii. 355; love of them, i. 474.

A cry of amazement broke from the multitude as they beheld the pair, whose main distinction in the eyes of most was their garb.

'All distinctions are trifles,' iii. 355.

The important distinction, which is often insisted upon, between killing your enemy in a fair fight with equal weapons, and lying in ambush for him, is entirely a corollary of the fact that the power within the State, of which I have spoken, recognizes no other right than might, that is, the right of the stronger, and appeals to a Judgment of God as the basis of the whole code.

The Hours of the Day, the Distinctions of Noon and Night, Dinner and Supper, are the greatest Notices they are capable of.

4. Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.

He meets the second point, that we call extension by itself space, and not body, by maintaining that the distinction between extension and corporeal substance is a distinction in thought, and not in reality; that attribute and substance, mathematical and physical bodies, are not distinct in fact but only in our thought of them.

What procured him this fatal distinction was the resolution taken by the Governor to go and reside in the island of Goree, to be able to superintend the camp, and the ships, and doubtless for the sake of his health.

In such families, the familiar distinction between the two classes, is "servants," or "domestics," and "hired help," (not paid help.)

Whether this Distinction be not altogether Imaginary, I shall not here examine; but it is highly probable that among the Spirits of good Men, there may be some who will be more pleased with the Employment of one Faculty than of another, and this perhaps according to those innocent and virtuous Habits or Inclinations which have here taken the deepest Root.

And the more subtile the distinctions the more violent were the disputes; until at last religious persecution marked the conduct of Christians towards each other,as fierce almost as the persecutions they had suffered from the Pagans.

This vain distinction of a morbid imagination was the result of that solitude, inactivity, and the constantly dwelling upon himself and his own troubles, to which he had unfortunately given himself up, and which had brought his mind into such an unhealthy state, that he could neither reason nor think properly.

The distinction of colour will, in a short time, be no protection against such outrages, especially as not only Negroes, but Mulatoes, and even American Indians, (which appears by one of the advertisements before quoted) are retained in slavery in our American colonies; for there are many honest weather-beaten Englishmen, who have as little reason to boast of their complexion as the Indians.

The characteristic distinction of our author's style is this continuous and incessant flow of voluptuous thoughts and shining allusions.

The distinctions of rank or wealth in all cases were very marked; persons of no consideration and slaves being buried with very little care or respect.