And it is indeed a strange contrast that Italy should have arrived at a perfect theoretical development of a classical school of criminology, while there persists, on the other hand, the disgraceful condition that criminality assumes dimensions never before observed in this country, so that the science of criminology cannot stem the tide of crime in high and low circles.

In northern Italy, where movable property is more developed, the crime of theft assumes a greater intensity, while crimes due to conditions of the blood are decreasing on account of the lesser poverty and the resulting lesser degeneration of the people.

In the first place, Mr. Choate assumes that there are certain deluded persons who affirm that all compromises in politics are wrong.

But when we come to the application of it, the matter assumes another face.

To her and to all her associates, love was a taste emanating from the senses, a blind sentiment which assumes no merit in the object which gives it birth, as is the case of hunger, thirst, and the like.

Love assumes a thousand different forms in their minds.

As soon as the mistress assumes the rôle of lover, love begins to weaken; it does more, it rises like a tyrant, and ends in disdain which leads directly to disgust and inconstancy.

Unaccountable changes may alter on a sudden the condition of individuals, but in the life of nations there is always a close concatenation of cause and effecttherefore history is the book of life, wherein the past assumes the shape of future events.

To this is due the common, if not invariable, experience of naval warfare, that the fleet which assumes the offensive has to establish what are sometimes called 'flying bases,' to which it can resort at will.

Where the laborious culture of the vine was pursued, the unit of husbandry was made still less; Cato assumes in that case an area of 100 -jugera-.

Protean, something that constantly assumes different forms.

No matter how trifling the occasion, he talks well; and assumes an air of importance that would become him if he were discoursing on matters of life and death.

And what was the reason, thinkest thou, that she had not been of so long a time at this uncle's?Why, this old sinner, who imagines himself entitled to call me to account for my freedoms with the sex, has lately fallen into familiarities, as it is suspected, with his housekeeper; who assumes airs upon it.

The policeman assumes the air of a haughty conqueror receiving homage from a conquered foe.

As he comes nearer and nearer, his repulsive looking body assumes form and substance.

One assumes that the actual kinds are primordial; the other, that they are derivative.

The first hypothesis assumes that they were parallel from the unknown beginning and will be to the unknown end.

It is very easy to assume, that, because events in Nature are in one sense accidental, and the operative forces which bring them to pass are themselves blind and unintelligent, (all forces are,) therefore they are undirected, or that he who describes these events as the results of such forces thereby assumes that they are undirected.

In proportion as a government assumes the duties which ought to be performed by the citizen, it acts as a check upon individual and national development.

Had that jealousy been confined to the inhabitants of the parent country it would have been less an object of attention; but by extending it to the inhabitants of other countries with whom no difference ever existed the policy assumes a character which does not admit of a like explanation.

The workman takes a mouthful of water, and spurts it out like fine rain over the fan, in which the meal is alternately shaken and moistened in the manner just mentioned, until it assumes the shape of small globules, which are constantly stirred round in large, flat pans until they are dried, when they are passed through a second sieve, not quite so fine as the first, and the larger globules separated from the rest.

That shapeless, vile, and rude mass assumes the most various forms; and yields alone, by turns, all the goods we can desire.

On the one hand it flows, slips, and runs away; and on the other it assumes all the forms of the bodies that surround it, having properly none of its own.

The Puritan patron, who holds that young orphan girls are only safely brought up upon the rules of La Trappe, is superseded by an enlightened committeethe school assumes a sound English character Jane progresses duly from scholar to teacher, and passes ten profitable and not unhappy years at Lowood.

Thus, when a man presses a woman's hand, we may affirm one of three things from the attitude which his head assumes: 1.