Why Michelangelo preferred to generalise the face and to particularise the body remains a secret buried in the abysmal deeps of his personality.

In speaking of "embattled walls, raised on the mountain precipice," he particularises "Beaudesert; Old Montfort's seat;"a place, which, though it is pleasantly diversified with hill and dale, has no pretensions of so lofty a kind.

Had Chairlie's men obsairved, and particularised mair, there might have been a different family on the throne, an' the prince wad ha' got his ain ag'in.

This is a long passage, and particularises a number of those bestial forms.

It is a trait individualizing and particularising the person at whom the more general satire is aimed; and, coupled with the infirmities of the victim's moral nature, it fastens upon poor Florio identity with "the brace of coxcombs."

It would be almost impossible to particularise the positions or define the limits of country adapted for grazing purposes beyond the reference already made to them.