I value these old structures because such wealth of English history is embodied in them; their human interest, after all, is greater than their artistic.

Not without reason, it is true, for he embodied certain germinant ideas in a fascinating literary style; but it is hard to understand how so weak a man could have exercised such far-reaching influence.

It was an old idea, of course, for it had been embodied in that shadowy "Holy Roman Empire" which was the medieval dream of Rome the Great; but its form was new, and now for the first time it became a dream of the future rather than a dream of the past.

The Austrian case against Serbia, as embodied in this Note, rested upon a secret investigation in the prison of Sarajevo.

But the essential point to bear in mind is the fact that the details of the Austrian "case," as embodied in the notorious Note of July 23, originated in the same quarter as the previous attempts to slander and discredit Serbia.

This fact had been made clear to the French Foreign Office long before in a series of conversations between the statesmen, and it had been embodied in a letter from Sir E. Grey to the French Ambassador.

" After more than a month's deliberation this committee reported its plan, embodied in what is called articles of confederation.

It was as impossible to levy a force of militia as one of regular troops, for the militia could not be embodied without great expense; and the finances of the whole kingdom had been so mismanaged that money was as hard to procure as men.

The resolutions, when adoptedas they speedily werewere embodied in a bill, which passed through the last stage by receiving the royal assent at the beginning of July.

They are a practical exemplification of the idea embodied in the expression, "the mother country."

[Footnote 1: This cynical view of women is repeated in some of Becquer's verses, and may not unlikely have been caused by a bitter personal experience, as the love-story embodied in the poems seems to suggest.]

After the election of the magistrates, the dictator returned to his army, which was in winter quarters at Teanum, leaving his master of the horse at Rome, to take the sense of the fathers relative to the armies to be enlisted and embodied for the service of the year, as he was about to enter upon the magistracy after a few days.

He was a sort of embodied "Thou shalt not," only to be won into acquiescence by one influence,that of the mother, whose married life, as she looked back on it, seemed to consist of little else than bringing children into the world, with a Christian-like regularity, and interceding with the father for their varying temperaments when there.

It must be "slubber'd o'er in haste"its important preliminaries left to the cold imagination of the readerits fine spirit perhaps evaporating for want of being embodied in words.

Certainly there had come to be other differences between his present and his former self than that embodied in the presence of his little boy in the next room.

The romantic and chivalrous principle of the love of personal fame is embodied in the finest possible manner in the character of Falkland;[B] as in Caleb Williams (who is not the first, but the second character in the piece) we see the very demon of curiosity personified.

It was as we would have had itoffered by a southern senator, advocated by southern senators, and on the ground that it "was no compromise"that it embodied the true southern principlethat "this resolution stood on as high ground as Mr. Calhoun's"(Mr.

It was as we would have had itoffered by a southern senator, advocated by southern senators, and on the ground that it "was no compromise"that it embodied the true southern principlethat "this resolution stood on as high ground as Mr. Calhoun's.

They had seen, too, the principle of universal liberty, on which the Revolution was justified, recognised and embodied in most of the State Constitutions; they had seen slavery utterly forbidden in that of Vermont instantaneously abolished in that of Massachusettsand laws enacted in the New-England States and in Pennsylvania, for its gradual abolition.

Of the witnesses whose testimony is embodied in the following pages, a majority are slaveholders, many of the remainder have been slaveholders, but now reside in free States.

It was as we would have had itoffered by a southern senator, advocated by southern senators, and on the ground that it "was no compromise"that it embodied the true southern principlethat "this resolution stood on as high ground as Mr. Calhoun's.

General Cass was the putative father of it, and it might well have come from one of his pliancy and calibre; but as Slavery itself, embodied in the person of Calhoun, scouted the feeble bantling, there was soon no one so mean as to confess the paternity.

The word "civilization" must generalize what has been and what is, as nearly as the past and present can be embodied in language.

SERPENT, THE, is used symbolically to represent veneration from the shedding of its skin, and sometimes eternity, and not unfrequently a guardian spirit; also prudence and cunning, especially as embodied in Satan; is an attribute of several saints as expressive of their power over the evil one.

STURT, CHARLES, a noted Australian explorer, and a captain in the army; during 1828-45 was the determined leader of three important exploratory expeditions into Central Australia, the results of which he embodied in two works; became colonial secretary of South Australia, but failing health and eyesight led to his retirement, and he was pensioned by the first Parliament of South Australia; he returned to England totally blind (1795-1869).