Such a barren contemplation, tending to mental paralysis, belongs to Oriental pessimism, whose aim is the extinction of life, mental and physical, and reabsorption into that void whence, it is said, misfortune has brought us forth to troublous consciousness.

It had merely not occurred to him that the summary extinction of Potts could be a performance at all incompatible with the peace and dignity of the great commonwealth to which he was at heart loyal.

"Extinction is the doom of every immigrant population in an uncongenial climate (habitat) when migration ceases to keep up and renew the original stock."

This extinction of our world, when the green sun of this other universe rose, is a curious point upon which Plattner insists.

He attributed it in the first place to the stagnation, the almost extinction, of the iron trade, the blowing out of furnaces, and the consequent cessation of the demand for the best class of food on the part of thousands of operatives and mechanics, who had hitherto been the farmers' best customers.

The decree of September, 1792, was the death-blow to the Order, and its extinction was simply a matter of time.

But a total extinction will never be its lot.

She had expired there, and her extinction was the price, Oh, innocence!

And, as I consider it, the extinction of this free state is an alteration of one of the main and leading provisions of the treaty.

The complete extinction of the system was now the object aimed at.

The extinction of the public debt having taken place, there is no longer any use for the offices of Commissioners of Loans and of the Sinking Fund.

The absolute denial, the utter extinction, of self is the perfect state of Truth, and all religions and philosophies are but so many aids to this supreme attainment.

For the aim of its founder was to show men how by a virtuous life, or lives, they might at last attain annihilationor, at any rate, the extinction of the individual self, the apparent separateness of which was, in his view, the source of all misery.

"The gradual extinction of public spirit; the general deterioration of private character, and the exercise of unbridled lust and passion, are the livid hues which tinge with the purple of melancholy and the scarlet of tragedy the later pages of Florentine story.

He shewed us how it arose from our free agency, an extinction of which would be a still greater evil than any we experience.

Their application met with an immediate and positive refusal, and the extinction of his hopes in this respect was to John Yeardley a grievous disappointment.