Ideally speaking, Apologetics ought to have no existence distinct from the general and unanimous search for truth, and in so far as they tend to put any other consideration, no matter how high or pure in itself, in the place of truth, they must needs stand aside from the path of science.

I only wish to protest against the idea that such a question can be adequately discussed as something isolated and distinct, in which all that is necessary is to produce and substantiate the documents as in a forensic process.

But there is a distinct type of mind which always enjoys dining abroad and appreciates a few herbs in a stranger's house more than a stalled ox at home.

In some cases, as in Lawrence, Kansas, there were assembled enough freedmen to constitute a distinct group.

The gland is made altogether in four pieces: the ring which presses the packing is made distinct from the flange to which the bolts are attached which force the gland against the packing, and both ring and flange are made in two pieces, to enable them to be got over the pipe.

S is the steam connection, and E the exhaust; there are two distinct sets of valves, the steam s, s', and the exhaust e, e', operated independently of each other.

I thought therefore fit to acquaint you with a convenient Mechanical Way, which may easily prevent or correct Staring, by an Optical Contrivance of new Perspective-Glasses, short and commodious like Opera Glasses, fit for short-sighted People as well as others, these Glasses making the Objects appear, either as they are seen by the naked Eye, or more distinct, though somewhat less than Life, or bigger and nearer.

" Nor was he deceived, for as they crossed the field, and approached the cottage, the sounds of a melancholy air played on the pipe became each instant more distinct.

The roll of wheels came dull and muffled on her ear: those were phantoms surely, those meaningless faces that met her in the street, not living men and women, and yet she had a distinct perception of an apple-woman's stall, of some sham jewelry she saw in a shop-window.

If this is done it will mark a distinct step in advance of any taken hitherto.

The little village of Falstone is set amongst trees, in the midst of pleasant meadows, a welcome relief from the bare fells and moorlands around it; yet this wild scenery has a distinct fascination of its own, and adds not a little to the charm of the varied landscape within the bounds of our northern county.

These Northumbrian streams have a distinct character of their own, and are of a different breed from those of the southern; counties.

There were distinct varieties in its ranks.

In both of these there were distinct signs of Anti-trinitarianism from time to time; as to the former, indeed, along with the earlier Baptist movements in England and on the Continent (especially in the Netherlands) there had always gone a streak of heresy alarming to the authorities.

As the divergence of ideas grew more distinct debate began to be fierce.

One of the greatest of Unitarians, Dr. Martineau, whose important share in the development of their ideas and life must be considered farther on, referred in a discourse of about forty years ago to three distinct stages in Unitarian theology.

Nineteen years before, Channing had decisively pointed out that Unitarianism and orthodoxy are two distinct theologies.

He never brings his wife, though; but Mother's always asking for her, clear and distinct, and she always smiles, and her voice kind of tinkles like little silver bells.

John Baptiste Trubode has distinct recollections of the arrival and departure of Tucker's party, and of the amount of food left by it.

As we have before said, Mrs. Thrale and Mrs. Piozzi are two distinct persons.

He admits that KINDNESS, MERCY, AND JUSTICE, were enjoined with a distinct reference to the government of God.[C] "Without respect of persons," they were to be God-like in doing justice.

In the first place, it produced two distinct and utterly different peoples: the one in the North and the other in the South.

The great orb of day was about ten degrees above the horizon, and a horizontal line of white passed completely through it, extending to a considerable distance on either hand, while around it were two distinct halos, or circles of light.

To overlook, in our primary division, the difference between a verb and a participle, is merely to reserve for a subdivision, or subsequent explanation, a species of words which most grammarians have recognized as a distinct sort in their original classification. 10.

In a few minutes the trail would become distinct.

<Distinct, distinctive.

There were four separate and distinctive calls.

It wasn't a question of comparison; the two men stood apart, distinctive, in every attribute.

The white plume was the distinctive mark of the House of Bourbon. Oriflamme, or Auriflamme (lit.

Many more accounts of cremation among different tribes might be given to show how prevalent was the custom, but the above are thought to be sufficiently distinctive to serve as examples.

" "And the house itself?the distinctive appellation of the family?" "We have always been called Homespun.

It was generally added to some distinctive name or appellation, as the Roman emperors added the name of Cæsar to their own.

Reduced from her imperial high abode, 1260 Like Dionysius to a private rod, The Passive Church, that with pretended grace Did her distinctive mark in duty place, Now touch'd, reviles her Maker to his face.

Assuming that many of my readers have never enjoyed the opportunity of "sitting out a debate" in Parliament, I have ventured to hope that a description of some of the distinctive features which are peculiar to the House of Commons, and a sketch of some of its prominent members, might not be unwelcome.

Now, however, the joke has developed a serious side, as their two characters, though in no wise precocious, have become distinctive.

It is well known that the Indian tribes have taken their distinctive names chiefly from geographical features, and these often in turn control the pace of the people.

Again, the suggestion, that, "Analysis consists in pointing out the words or groups of words which constitute the elements of a sentence," has nothing distinctive in it; and, without some idea of the author's peculiar system of "elements," previously impressed upon the mind, is scarcely, if at all, intelligible.

It is not an elliptical form of the future, as some affirm it to be; nor equivalent to the indicative present, as others will have it; but a true subjunctive, though its distinctive parts are chiefly confined to the second and third persons singular of the simple verb: as, "Though thou wash thee with nitre.

"To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions.

III, that the distinctive OR has a double use.

For, if one may be plural, we have no distinctive definition or notion of either number.

Or, this portion rather deserves the distinctive title adopted by the editors, viz.

These words seem to come at times charged with the very marrow of the mind, and, if the letters of a man who occasionally indulges in them be wholly purged of them, the letters lose one of their most distinctive characteristics.

Their distinctive speech was of Church and priesthood, of Sacraments and services, as the vesture under the varied folds of which the Form of the Divine Redeemer was to be exhibited to the world in a way capable of, and suited for, transmission by a collective body from generation to generation.

Dress lost its richness of ornament and its distinctive characteristics.

Instead to his ears, growing louder moment by moment, penetrating the illy constructed walls, came an indistinct roar; rising, lowering, yet ever constant: a sound unlike any other on earth, distinctive as the silence preceding had been typicalthe clamour of angry, menacing human voices en masse.

Ranchers there were in corduroys and denims, cowboys in buckskin and flannel, gamblers in the glaring colours distinctive of their kind, business men with closely cropped moustaches, idlers in anything and everything; but amid them all not a friendly face.

Brief as was his ministry in his higher office, and to our view all too soon ended, I shall be content to speak of him as a bishop,of his divine right, as I profoundly believe, to a place in the episcopate, and of the preeminent value of his distinctive and incomparable witness to the highest aim and purpose of that office.

Now and then men went bywithout any distinctive air of eventsnow and then a little group of children, a nursemaid and a woman going shopping, and so forth.

Here, indeed, were the red-brown eyes, the black hair, the distinctive aquiline profile of the great demagogue, but here was also something else that smote any premeditated scorn and rhetoric aside.