The rage of insular orthodoxy was in proportion to its impotence.

Nor was this the only time when the insular position of England did goodly service in maintaining its liberties and its internal peace.

But it was not merely in the simple facility of warding off external attack that the insular position of England was so serviceable.

On the other hand, the necessity of organising the army of a maritime insular state, and of training it with the object of rendering effective aid in operations of the kind in question, has rarely been perceived and acted upon by others.

As I have been always much amused and interested by this subject, and had frequent opportunities, during many years' experience, to observe and examine these shoals in their various stages of subaqueous progress, and subsequent emersion I am convinced that not only many considerable islands, but extensive insular groups, owe their existence to the above origin.

In the limits of the almost insular, isolated Negrito enclave, mixtures between Negritos and Indios very seldom surprise one, and never the transitions that can have arisen in the post-generative time of development.

In the Insular Treasury the gold and silver dollar are always reckoned at the same value.

The colonial system by which this whole hemisphere was bound has fallen into ruins, totally abolished by revolutions converting colonies into independent nations throughout the two American continents, excepting a portion of territory chiefly at the northern extremity of our own, and confined to the remnants of dominion retained by Great Britain over the insular archipelago, geographically the appendages of our part of the globe.

With all the rest we have free trade, even with the insular colonies of all the European nations, except Great Britain.

Indeed, a few were able, at about the time that these stories were written, to pass the civil service examination for appointment as insular teachers.

This country will not submit to the degradation which England would inflict upon it, and which no other European nation appears inclined to aid the insular empire in inflicting.

" In the Gallic jargon then fashionable, England was "an insular Bastille of slaves," and New England "the Vendée of America."

Not that we're insular, mind you, but to hear some of these mangy foreigners talking about the Brotherhood of Dogs!

To us, happy in our insular position, we have, within existing memory, known chiefly of war, its pomp and circumstance alone; the gay parade, the glancing arms, the bright colours, the inspiring musicthese are what we see of war in its outset;glory, and praise, and badges of honour, these are what appear to us as its result.

The Census Report of 1907, prepared under American auspices, states that "the climate of Cuba is tropical and insular.

They have no reason to share our insular exasperation.

This bridge is within a few feet of a mile in length, by means of which, the bridge at Charleston, and the neck of the peninsula, our communication with the continent is so complete, that we feel but few inconveniences from our insular situation.

Above all, Anglicanism was too limited; it was local, insular, national; its theory was made for its special circumstances; and he describes in a remarkable passage how, in contrast with this, there rung in his ears continually the proud self-assertion of the other side, Securus judicat orbis terrarum.

In the same way the remarkable absence of insular exclusiveness, notwithstanding their geographical position, serves to bring their sense of nationality into higher relief.

The insular character of Tasmania was not fully ascertained till the year 1798, when the intrepid Bass, then surgeon of H.M.S. Reliance, while on a whaleboat cruise from Sydney, discovered the strait which bears his name.

What a thrill of excitement must have shot through their frames when on rounding Hunter Island, in the little Norfolk cutter, they first felt the long swell of the ocean and became convinced of the insular character of Tasmania!

It was some fifty years after the adoption of the Federal Constitution before it began in great bulk, but to-day we find in the States alone forty-six legislative bodies, and two of Territories, besides the Federal Congress and the limited legislatures of our insular possessions.

CAPE BRETON (92), the insular portion of the prov.

And as we have seen, this ordinance was observed by Christians in the time of the apostles, so their practice may be traced through history afterwards, however obscure, until the time of the Reformation from Popery; when in Europe, both continental and insular, this ordinance was revived and exemplified.

An insular race is therefore in process of forming.