The poisonous element in all forms of intoxicating drinks, and the one so fraught with danger to the bodily tissues, is the alcohol they contain.

The only elements among them which have shown any political sense or capacity for political organization are Christian.

It is important to recognize that in classifying poetry with music and dancing, Aristotle is insisting that the common element in these arts is movement.

And far from leaving man out of her problem in life, her philosophy is teaching her to look for his possibilities with the same anxiety that she employs in studying her own; that to adapt herself to his individuality need not necessarily imperil her own; that the first element in the forming of this perfect home which it is her ambition to establish is perfect congeniality of spirit between herself and her husband.

"The occult elements" and "latent affinities," of which material pursuits never take cognizance, are "influences as potent in adding a charm to labor or repose as dew or air, in the natural world, in giving a tint to flowers or sap to vegetation.

One essential element in the commercial reform was the improvement of the railways.

Again, Mr James Mill's 'Elements of Political Economy' were, at the time when they appeared, the most logical and condensed exposition of the entire science then existing.

This element was almost as great an enemy of old Winchester as the reformers themselves.

Beings rational and irrational, animate and inanimate; the heavens above, and the earth below; the obedience of sanctified, and the disobedience of unsanctified men; all holy spirits; all damned spirits; in one word, every agency, every element, every atom, are but the ministers of His will, and concur in the execution of His designs.

In Freemasonry, these elements of consecration are corn, wine, and oil,which see. CORN.

And yet for us dost work alone, While thou for dam and bulwark carest; Since thus for Neptune thou preparest, The water-fiend, a mighty fête; Before thee naught but ruin lies; The elements are our allies; Onward destruction strides elate.

CONSTITUENT PROPERTIES OF THE ARTICHOKE.According to the analysis of Braconnet, the constituent elements of an artichoke are,starch 30, albumen 10, uncrystallizable sugar 148, gum 12, fixed oil 1, woody fibre 12, inorganic matter 27, and water 770.

No talking; lay back to it; now or never!" On dashed the boat, cleaving its way through the rough sea, as if the briny element were blue smoke.

The second essential element of Spanish verse is a rhythmic distribution of accents within a line.

His best elements are confession and penance: by the first he finds out men's inclinations, and by the latter heaps wealth to his seminary.

'Radicalism is a spirit,' wrote the Vicar of Harrow in 1820, 'of which the first elements are a rejection of Scripture, and a contempt of all the institutions of your country, and of which the results, unless averted by a merciful Providence, must be anarchy, atheism, and universal ruin.'"

Nevertheless the statutory and historical element is not a graft from without, but a shell organically grown around natural religion, indispensable for its development, and to be removed but gradually and by layerswhen the inclosed kernel has become ripe and firm.

The voting strength of the world is about to be doubled, and the new element is absolutely an unknown quantity.

The strongest element of his character was religious fanaticism.

Briefly, these elements are sublimity of thought, beauty of sentiment, aptness of expression, unction of form.

The primitive English element was pirate; let the primitive American be bore.

This spiritual element is the substance of democracy, in the large sense; and the special governmental theory which it has developed and organized, and in which its ideas are partially included, is, like other such systems, a mode of administration under which it seeks to realize its ideal of what life ought to be, with most speed and certainty, and on the largest scale.

There was little doubt that the minerals of Greece would well repay extraction; the uncertain element was the Greek nation itself.

The essential elements of these crimes are malice and injury.

But a third and equally important element in the discussion, is the relative draught of the swing and wheel-ploughs.