Man, beast, creeping thing, and plant of the earth, are all the lineal and direct descendants of some one individual ens, whose various progeny have been simply modified by the action of natural and ascertainable conditions into the multiform aspect of life which we see around us.

So far from it, the system of the Church of England took in all the more freely the elements of truth which it had all along been diffusing, because they were no longer scattered abroad by the direct action of an organised party under ostensible chiefs.

The Liberals ever (as is their wont), most illiberal to those who differ from them, began to use direct academic persecution; until, in self-distrust and very weariness, the great soul began to abandon the warfare it had waged inwardly against its own inclinations and the fascinations of its enemy, and to yield the first defences to the foe.

I stopped and said, "Auntie, could you direct me to Molly Brown's house?" "I'm her," she replied.

We might go direct to the great Forum, up the Velabrum, or valley (once a marsh), right in front of us between the Capitol on the left and the Palatine on the right.

At this happy time, when Rome felt that she could breathe again after the final defeat of her deadly enemy, began the great inpouring of wealth of which the capitalism of Cicero's time is the direct result.

In this way the Kansu states were strengthened both economically and politically, for they were able to direct the commerce either to the northern states or to south China as suited them.

The direct purposes of this measure were to resettle uprooted farm population; to prevent further migrations of farmers; and to raise production and taxes.

As to number, ideas are limited only by the number of kinds, without direct relation to degrees; every object, therefore, having in itself a distinctive essential, has also its distinct idea; while two or more objects of the same kind, however differing in degree, must consequently refer only to one and the same.

Many things are denied in direct contradiction to fact; for the mind can command, and in no measured degree, the power of self-blinding, so that it cannot see what is actually before it.

and yet how small a portion of this stupendous fabric will be found to have any direct, much less exclusive, relation to the actual wants of the body!

Before mail coaches were established, Coleshill was a place of considerably more note then, as a post town, than Birmingham, it being very common for people in the north to direct their letters for Birmingham, to turn at Coleshill.

Walsall, in Staffordshire, distant nine miles, on the direct road to Stafford.

Pupasse the only one free and untrammeled, simple and direct.

No matter he did play a direct role in Goan journalism, but he was a Goan journalist of repute.

Every expense, however trivial, had to get Patrao's direct approval.

However, the editor pulled up the correspondent for attempting to introduce the MLA into the story, when the police complaint did not specify the direct involvement of the MLA.

Over the year I was with The Herald, there were a few lapses where there would be direct influence from commercial interests to have articles in their favour.

"The following are some of the verbs which take a direct and an indirect object.

Once, at a cross-roads, I was in doubt as to the turn to take, and we sat there waiting ten minuteswe had already caught some of the native infection of restfulnessfor some human being to come along, who could direct us on our way.

I pushed on as best I could, jumping innumerable crevasses, and for every hundred rods or so of direct advance traveling a mile in doubling up and down in the turmoil of chasms and dislocated ice-blocks.

SEE Direct credits for humanity.

And the curious thing about Katrin Texel was that though her corporeal part might be a direct inheritance from her Burgomeister father and his substantial brewery, her spirit had been designed for an artful fairy of half her size, in order that it might go pirouetting into airy realms of the imagination.

It did not occur to the officer of the Carignan regiment that he should direct the escape, or in any way oppose the will manifested for the first time in his favor.

Gesture is the Direct Agent of the HeartGesture is the Interpreter of SpeechGesture is an Elliptical Language Chapter III.