Her companions, however, were great people, as before her banishment and in the days of her prosperity,in which fact we see some modification of the heartlessness which so often reigns in fashionable circles.

no further than that bare instance: because our understandings can discover no conceivable connexion between any secondary quality and any modification whatsoever of any of the primary ones.

To St. John the reality that has come to win the world is not the promise of salvation, or prophecy of an eventual life eternal, but just life without modification or limitation, life absolute, full-orbed, pulsating through worlds seen and unseen alike.

The unities of type found under such different externals are inexplicable, except as results of community of descent, with non-community of modification.

He traces the differentiation of religious government from secular; its successive complications and the multiplication of sects; the growth and continued modification of religious ideas, as caused by advancing knowledge and changing moral character; and the gradual reconciliation of these ideas with the truths of abstract science.

As in the first work, so in this last, the great factor in the progressive modification is shown to be sympathy.

With respect to the means of modification, he attributed something to the direct action of the physical conditions of life, something to the crossing of already existing forms, and much to use and disuse, or, in other words, to the effect of habit.

He argued from the analogy of domestic productions, from the changes which the embryos of many species undergo, from the difficulty of distinguishing species and varieties, and from the principle of general gradation, that species have been modified; and he attributed the modification to the change of circumstances.

It should be observed that Darwin does not attribute the modification exclusively to natural selection.

What he asserts is: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive, means of modification."

' It would be interesting, if it were feasible, to point out the epoch at which the text mode of arguing in polemic controversy became predominant; I mean by single texts without any modification by the context.

Consequently it would seem that, until a play has been thought out very clearly and in great detail, any scheme of entrances and exits ought to be merely provisional and subject to indefinite modification.

They can not then, without a modification assented to by the public creditors, be applied to the extinguishment of this debt and the complete liberation of our revenues, the most desirable of all objects.

Will this modification, the most excellent of all, be the only one not made by God in His own work, and which the work bestows on itself independently?

The bill did not pass; and by the late resolution, a statute unparalleled for injustice and atrocity by any mandate of European despotism, is to be like the law of the Medes and Persians, that altereth not, since no proposition for its repeal or modification can be entertained.

The distance of this dangerous zone is variable, but once the engines have been set, the modification of the distance occupies some time, and a warship that succeeds in passing the zone has nothing further to fear.

Hence powerful teachers and preachers of all kinds have been spontaneously inclined to suppose a necessity, which had no real existence, of preserving as much as was possible of what we know to be error, even while introducing wholesome modification of it.

The past, like the solar system, is beyond reach of modification at our hands, and we cannot help it.

"Government is the power which one word has over an other, to cause it to assume some particular modification.

Mordecai is a modification of the name of the Babylonian god Marduk.

Gradually, nevertheless, the necessities of the people induced a modification of this system of non-intercourse.

Every year some modification of the system is effected, which tends to increase still further the confusion in the relations of the sexes.

If the captain's concurrence in her proposed foreign sojourn had not been so unqualified and complete, if he had proposed even some slight modification, if he had said anything which would indicate that he felt he had authority to oppose her movements if he did not approve of them,in fact, even if he had opposed her plan,she would have been better pleased.

It is perhaps necessary to define the above use of 'idealization' as that modification of photographie reality observable in all true art.

The contemplated revision of the tariff of duties may, and doubtless will, lead in the end to a relief of the Treasury from these constantly recurring embarrassments, but it must be obvious that time will be necessary to realize the full anticipations of financial benefit from any modification of the tariff laws.