I should be ashamed if I detained the House more than two minutes on anything so small as the consistency of my political life.

You, after all, are concerned in the consistency of your representative.

Now I think a public man who spends overmuch time in vindicating his consistency, makes a mistake.

To avoid this reductio ad absurdum, it has been suggested that it is not the coherence of the idea in human, finite, minds which constitutes 'truth,' but the perfect consistency of the experience of an Absolute Mind.

Oh, rare consistency in this boasted age of light, and science, and learning!

As the Poet very much excels in this Consistency of his Characters, I shall beg Leave to consider several Passages of the Second Book in this Light.

He has all that noble firmness and consistency, for which he has been so distinguished, strongly indicated in his whole face.

In a vase on the other side is a flower-the helianthuswith its face toward the sun, in allusion to the characteristic stern, uncompromising consistency of Lafayette-a trait of character which I then considered, and still consider, the great prominent trait of that distinguished man.

This as it stands is a very fine Clear Brown Soup, but if a thicker, more substantial soup is wanted, rub through as much of the pulp as will give the required consistency.

Great care should be taken with such soups as lentil, split-pea, potato soup, &c., to avoid a coarse "mushy" consistency.

Prepare a rich well-flavoured brown stock, rubbing through the greater part of the German lentils, &c., to make it of a thick creamy consistency.

When quite tender mix in enough bread crumbs to make a rather stiff consistency, also 1 or 2 ozs.

It might tempt us to criticise the consistency of ecclesiastic judgment, did we not know that in theology, as in metaphysics, extreme contradictions are capable of ultimate reconciliation.

Perhaps the speakers might notice it, and that man from Wiltshire would be sure to write saying he had always supported Mr. Balfour, and heartily welcomed this fresh evidence of his consistency.

The claim of England is the weakest of all, for, without intending to diminish Bacon's importance, it may be said that the programme which he developsand in essence his philosophy is nothing morewas, in its leading principles, not first announced by him, and not carried out with sufficient consistency.

Leonora, however, preserved her usual consistency.

Though far from insensible to praise, she was not liable to be misled by the indiscriminate love of admiration; the uniform kindness of her manner, the consistency and equality of her character, had fixed the esteem and passive love of her companions.

Torone is a sort of hard candy, made of honey and almonds, and crusted over with crystallized sugar; or in other words, it is a nuga with a sweet frieze coat;but nuga is a trifle to it for consistency.

From its mother it inherits plums and citron, while its father bestows upon it almonds and consistency.

For between the principles which God reveals, on the one hand, and the precepts he enjoins, the institutions he establishes, and the usages he approves, on the other, there must be consistency and harmony.

Even Liberty party, blind as she is, has light enough to see that "Consistency is the jewel, the everything of such a cause as ours."

Her eyes were red and blood-shot; her hair was pendent in matted and shaggy tresses about her shoulders; her complexion swarthy, and of the consistency of parchment; her form spare, and her whole body, her arms in particular, uncommonly vigorous and muscular.

Perhaps we may reach some principles of uniformity and consistency, by observing the several different kinds of phrases thus used.

Reckless of the current usage of grammarians, and even of self-consistency, both author and reviser will have no objective case of nouns, because this is like the nominative; yet, finding an objective set after "the adjective like," they will recognize it as "a dative still existing in English!"See p. 156.

If doctors of divinity and doctors of laws will contradict themselves in teaching grammar, so far as they do so, the lovers of consistency will find it necessary to deviate from their track.