The ethics of the Proverbs are based on everlasting righteousness, and are imbued with the spirit of divine philosophy; their great peculiarity is the constant exhortation to wisdom and knowledge, to which young men are especially exhorted.

Their chief peculiarities were the complete subordination of the dramatic to the rhetorical element, the predominance of pageant, and the substitution of rhymed for blank verse.

A witness swore to certain peculiarities; the Judge looked at them and at once saw them, too often without considering that peculiarities are exactly the things that forgers imitate.

But the main peculiarity in the outside is to be found in four tower-like projections, not, as at Arles and Nîmes, signs of Saracenic occupation, but clearly parts of the original design.

He belonged to the Asiatic school, whose headquarters were at Ephesus,the peculiarities of which were accuracy of imitation, the exhibition of sensuous charms, and the gratification of sensual tastes.

Another peculiarity of great elevations, noticed by travellers, is the astonishing clearness of the atmosphere.

A peculiarity often observed in the Beech is a sort of double head of foliage.

The only peculiarity in the Philadelphian Mint is a frame-work for counting the number of pieces coined, by which ingenious contrivancerendered necessary by Californian pressureone man does the work of from twenty to thirty.

We have said that one peculiarity of this work is the connection which is kept in view from the first between the Founder and His work; between Christ and the Christian Church.

The characteristic peculiarity of his intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices.

The real peculiarity in Ireland was that when the community-missionary system was no longer necessary it was not abandoned as in other lands but was rather developed and emphasised. INTRODUCTIONST.

The distinguishing peculiarity of the Egyptian religion was the adoration of sacred animals as emblems of the gods, the chief of which were the bull, the cat, and the beetle.

The leading peculiarity of the poem is description,of men and places; of the sea, the mountain, and the river; of Nature in her loveliness and mysteries; of cities and battle-fields consecrated by the heroism of brave and gifted men, in Greece, in Rome, in mediaeval Europe,with swift passing glances at salient points in history, showing extensive reading and deep meditation.

All her peculiarities were now virtuesnay, the very things which had appeared to him the most indefensible took on the aspect of angelic endowments.

The most obvious peculiarity is the tendency which he noticed himself, to "use too big words and too many of them."

The third, and perhaps the most notable, peculiarity is the manner of suspending and operating the main link.

The only peculiarity worthy of notice, that occurred in the course of their various digressions, was the fact, that the commodore insensibly began to style his companion "General;" the courtesy of the country in his eyes, appearing to require that a man who has seen so much more than himself, should, at least, enjoy a title equal to his own in rank, and that of Admiral being proscribed by the sensitiveness of republican principles.

A marked peculiarity in St. Luke's Gospel is the 'great intercalation' of discourses, ix.

The great peculiarity of all Indian architectural monuments is excessive ornamentation rather than beauty of proportion or grand effect.

The great peculiarity of the "Manual" and the "Discourses" is the elevation of the soul over external evils, the duty of resignation to whatever God sends, and the obligation to do right because it is right.

One peculiarity, exceedingly annoying to an Englishman, which is observable even in good society in New York and elsewhere in America, is a prying curiosity as to the affairs of those with whom they converse.

This peculiarity in society is evidently a relic of the formal times, when Aleppo was a semi-Venetian city, and the opulent seat of Eastern commerce.

A peculiarity of the four motion feeder in Wheeler & Wilson's machine is an arrangement enabling the operator to feed in either direction at will.

The great peculiarity of his youth was his precocity.

"The chief peculiarity of these processes was the cleanliness.