86 Metaphors for individual

What kind of person would the imaginary individual be, anyhow?

Indeed, it was afterward ascertained to be the unanimous opinion of the judges that the charge of high-treason could not be legally sustained, since the individual who was alleged to be the partner in the criminality imputed to her was a foreigner, and therefore, "owing no allegiance to the crown," could not be said to have violated it.

characterBut show me a woman, and I'll show thee a plotter!This plaguy sex is art itself: every individual of it is a plotter by nature.

The unknown individual, who owes his triumph to the kindness of his concierge and his water-carrier, becomes a member of the Commune.

How the company was relieved of them is thus told in Mr. Bryant's Journal: June 2, 1846, the two individuals at variance about their oxen and wagon were emigrants to Oregon, and some eighteen or twenty wagons now travelling with us were bound to the same place.

But in the history of the world, the individuals we have to do with are peoples, totalities that are States.

He that annexes the name man to a complex idea, made up of sense and spontaneous motion, joined to a body of such a shape, has thereby one essence of the species man; and he that, upon further examination, adds rationality, has another essence of the species he calls man: by which means the same individual will be a true man to the one which is not so to the other.

And although this exchange of influence is not kept up by an equality of numeric relations,since not only are the sexes very unequally divided in some kinds of animals, but the male and female elements are even combined in certain types, so that the individuals are uniformly hermaphrodites,yet I firmly believe that this numerical distribution, however unequal it may seem to us, is not without its ordained accuracy and balance.

Varying within the numerical limits imposed by genus, species, variety and family (which limits are probably responsible for the persistence of the particular genus, species, variety, or family) the individual becomes an individual because of the relative values of the percentages in his blood and tissues of these different internal secretions.

Workmen busy with the hatchet, the saw, and the plane, in the foreground; others in the rear occupied with mortar and stones, building a small but substantial house; a cart with oxen lazily waiting, like Mr. Micawber, for "something to turn up"; a few superior individuals in deep consultation, and the irrepressible sun struggling through the beeches and pines to have "his finger in the pie"such was the scene we saw, but soon left behind.

First individual who addressed the committee was Mr. William Smith.

Every individual, even in health, is a productive focus for microbes; they are found in the breath, and flourish luxuriantly in the mouth of those especially who are negligent in the use of the tooth brush.

The former individual is a large slave-holder, an influential leader in his denomination, and had canvassed and condemned Elon Galusha's views and conduct in the public newspapers.

The blood-hunters who had taken me into custody at , related, as usual among their fraternity, a part of their adventure, and told of the reason which inclined them to suppose, that the individual who had passed through their custody, was the very Caleb Williams for whose apprehension a reward had been offered of a hundred guineas.

Individuals among them become labourers and associate in behalf of the Africans; Dilwyn, Harrison, and others.

There was now no longer any doubt, assuredly, that he was what was called "in love" with Redbud; Verty said as much to himself, and we need not add that when this circumstance occurs, the individual who comes to such conclusion, is no longer his own master, or the master of his heart, which is gone from him.

A second glance showed him that this individual was Pillichody, and satisfied that he had been plundering the house, he instantly seized him.

This new individual is to a certain extent a new (Platonic) Idea; now, as all Ideas strive with the greatest vehemence to enter the phenomenal sphere, and to do this, ardently seize upon the matter which the law of causality distributes among them all, so this particular Idea of a human individuality struggles with the greatest eagerness and vehemence for its realisation in the phenomenal.

The strange individual under discussion was unquestionably a satyr, or at least one of those four-footed, hairy men, such as the authentic James Carter declared he had met with in the northern part of America.

Nature herself wills the everlasting succession of constantly repeated efforts; and she wills, too, that every individual shall be complete, unique and new in himselfa true image of the supreme, indivisible Individuality.

It was no weak indulgence of a child's whim, but a genuine respect for another person's rights as an individualeven though that individual was merely a little childthat led that mother to allow her daughter to have what she wanted.

This individual was a long-legged youth, with long arms, long hair, a long nose, and a long face.

Now the new physical theories only ask us, it seems to me, to extend this conception to the whole universe: to believe that not individuals merely, but whole varieties and races, the total organised life on this planet, and it may be the total organisation of the universe, have been evolved just as our bodies are, by natural laws acting through circumstance.

'Nations are the citizens of humanity as individuals are the citizens of the nation,'[107] and again, 'The pact of humanity cannot be signed by individuals, but only by free and equal peoples, possessing a name, a banner, and the consciousness of a distinct existence.

The individual who had saved Maria's life was Lieutenant Morris.

86 Metaphors for  individual