Its root is the conception of nationality, that is of a people consciously united by race, language, and culture; and from this springs the larger conception of nationhood, that is of a nationality possessing its own political institutions, governed by its own consent, and co-extensive with its natural boundaries.

The root of all evil is the Assembly and the Juries.

Its root was the assumption (uncontested then) that a gentleman will always serve his God, his honor and his lady without any reservation; nor did the many emanating by-laws ever deal with special cases as concerns this triple, fixed, and fundamental homage.

Deduct the square of the vertical height in inches from the square of the length of the arm in inches, and twice the square root of the remainder is the diameter of the circle in which the centres of the balls revolve.

The root of all morals is ultimately beauty.

The root of the abomination was the bondage itself, the assertion of absolute and slaveholding power by "a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph."

Hence in order to find the distance between the foci, when the length and width of the ellipse are known, these two are squared and the lesser square subtracted from the greater, when the square root of the difference will be the quantity sought.

Then, if three is the factor by itself of nine, and the Author of Miracles[I] by himself is three,Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who are three and one,this lady was accompanied by the number nine that it might be understood that she was a nine, that is, a miracle, whose only root is the marvellous Trinity.

The great leaves of the ape are like our elephant's ear plant, and the roots, as big as war-clubs, are tubers that take the place of potatoes here.

Roots, Etsi quorundam gentium opes sint, saith Bruerinus, the wealth of some countries, and sole food, are windy and bad, or troublesome to the head: as onions, garlic, scallions, turnips, carrots, radishes, parsnips: Crato, lib. 2. consil.

L. D.This root is a strong bitter, and, as such, very frequently made use of in practice: in taste it is less exceptionable than most of the other substances of this class: infusions of it, flavoured with orange peel, are sufficiently grateful.

By the roadside I caught glimpses of various plants whose sweet roots were delicacies among my people.

The root and basis of all knowledge is experience; metaphysics itself is an empirical science, it is the last in the series of philosophical disciplines.

The root of that system was the symbolizing of a supreme ideal of reconciliation hereafter to be manifested in action.

The root of this vegetable is a usual accompaniment to the loyal and standard English dishes, the smoking baron and the roast surloin; with which it is most generally esteemed.

He had written a book to show, if I remember right after so many years, that the square root of minus one was a right angle (\/-1=90°), which was said to have been read only by a mathematician who presided over an observatory in the Ural Mountains.

While she still lived I was resolved to leave her, Now dead, she ne'er shall leave my side again; And this her picture, here upon my breast, Will 'grave its image there, strike root within For was not mine the hand that murdered her?

L. E.This root is a powerful stimulant and attenuant.

The psychological roots of virtuous action are the social and disinterested affections, which nature has implanted in all beings, especially in those endowed with reason.

This root is a very useful pectoral, and excellently softens acrimonious humours, at the same time that it proves gently detergent: and this account is warranted by experience.

But as far as my small experience goes, the root of them all is pride and self-conceit.

But the root of the dissensions, and the subject of most animated debates, was slavery,that awful curse and difficult question, which was not settled until the sword finally cut that Gordian knot.

Thus the perpendicularOsiris, or the active, male principlebeing represented by a line whose measurement is 3; and the baseIsis, or the passive, female principleby a line whose measurement is 4; then their union, or the addition of the squares of these numbers, will produce a square whose root will be the hypothenuse, or a line whose measurement must be 5.

This root of the matter is the slow transformation now at work of the whole spiritual basis of thought.

The anterior roots become motor nerves, their branches being distributed to certain muscles of the body, to control their movements.