That the vulgar also believe the moon, according to its age, to have particular effects on the flesh of slaughtered animals; and that all sailors distinguish between a wet and a dry day, according to the position of the crescent.

We must, however, distinguish between what is suitable for an edition meant either to popularise an author, or to interpret him, and an edition intended to bring together all that is worthy of preservation for posterity.

They all were so eager for the battle, that they could no longer distinguish between friend and foe, and each shook his clenched fist at the other.

It will not serve as a solution to distinguish between different periods of time, and to say, as economists used to say not very long ago, that price is governed over a short period by demand and supply, but in the long run by the cost of production.

For the acting this comedy (says he) those who have the government of the stage have their humours, and would be intreated; and I have mine, and won't entreat them; and were all dramatic writers of my mind, they should wear their old plays thread-bare, er'e they should have any new, till they better understood their own interest, and how to distinguish between good and bad.'

The more she tried to distinguish between Edwin's reality and her fancies concerning Edwin, the less she succeeded.

The world does not always distinguish between appearance and true merit.

German critics, it is well known, distinguish between 'Matthäus'the present Gospel that bears the name of St. Matthewand 'Ur-Matthäus,' or the original work of that Apostle, 'Marcus'our present St. Markand 'Ur-Marcus,' an older and more original document, the real production of the companion of St. Peter.

This Learned Man is to instruct them in the Grammar, Syntax, and construing Part of Treaty-Latin; how to distinguish between the Spirit and the Letter, and likewise demonstrate how the same Form of Words may lay an Obligation upon any Prince in Europe, different from that which it lays upon his Most Christian Majesty.

The truth is, that we should distinguish between real facts and the mere images of facts, though the newspapers teach us to confound them, putting side by side, as they do, Garibaldi's entry into Naples and Dennis McQuigley's into the lock-up.

He is capable of distinguishing the tones of the voice, whether spoken in anger or otherwise; and can even distinguish between musical notes.

But as this must be produced by a power in the hot body independent of sensation, that power is what chemists understand by the word heat: and to distinguish between the effect and its cause, the term caloric has been substituted.

The hard, reckless, often brutalized frontiersmen, greedy of land and embittered by the memories of untold injuries, regarded all Indians with sullen enmity, and could not be persuaded to distinguish between the good and the bad.[30]

The pressure was sufficient to destroy the sensibility of the forearm, and it is doubtful whether Mrs. Gillespie with her arm in such a condition could distinguish between the grasp of one hand, with a divided pressure (applied by the two last fingers and the thumb and index) and a double grip by two hands.

They do not rightly distinguish between the law and the gospel, who, because they are unworthy, reckon not themselves among the sheep.

Often the definition is given by courts that if one is able to distinguish between right and wrong, he is sane within the meaning of the law.

Cannot you distinguish between the Eyes of those who go to see, from those who come to be seen?

The life of Mr. Savage was written some years after his death by a gentleman, who knew him intimately, capable to distinguish between his follies, and those good qualities which were often concealed from the bulk of mankind by the abjectness of his condition.

And it is the province of the divine who believes in a Church at all, and in its office to be the teacher and witness of religious truth, to distinguish between the infinitely varying degrees of authority with which professed representations of portions of this truth are propounded for acceptance.

Lowell tells us that Wordsworth could not distinguish between truth and fact, and an ordinary Japanese is in this respect as good as Wordsworth.

Even before he could distinguish between reality and its shadow that we see in dreams, he used often to start up with a loud cry of fear in the night.

His great error all along is, that he doth not distinguish between a power, and a liberty of exercising that power, &c. I would appeal to any man, whether the clergy have not too little power, since a book like this, that unsettleth foundations and would destroy all, goes unpunished, &c. Page 171.

If so, it is impossible to distinguish between sleeping and waking altogether.

To distinguish between real and fancied disease forms an important branch of the education of a nurse.

I can distinguish between a very natural desire to possess articles of commerce that are denied by the laws and a more deliberate and mercenary plot against the revenue of the country.