There seems to be no positive basis on which to determine in advance a natural fitness for this work, but there are certain temperamental characteristics that undoubtedly have much to do with the success.

The buoy and the scheme may be never so faintly shown, but yet with sufficient clearness to give a positive guide for the course.

It is doubtful if all the elements could ever be tabulated in any form that would be a positive guide in shaping the final result, but in a general way the designer should make a fairly good guess at the kind of standard toward which he should work.

Fourth, his positive deniall of it, and thereby willing to deprive the king of his dignity and title.

Judith's face, capable of such rare and positive beauty, had now shut down into a hard, repellent little mask of hate.

But while the Professor grew more and more half-hearted in his protestations that he really didn't care where he went, Mrs. Marshall grew more and more positive that he must not be allowed to miss the music, finally silencing his last weak proffer of self-abnegation by saying peremptorily: "No, no, Elliott; go on in to your debauch of emotion.

Her hair was beautiful, a bright chestnut brown with a good deal of red, its brilliant gloss broken into innumerable high-lights by the ripple of its waviness; and she had one other positive beauty, the clearly penciled line of her long, dark eyebrows, which ran up a trifle at the outer ends with a little quirk, giving an indescribable air of alertness and vivacity to her expression.

As it turned out, however, these lessons proved far more to her than a temporary anodyne: they brought her a positive pleasure.

True, there is no probability that the African slave trade will ever again be legalized by the national government; but no credit is due the framers of the Constitution on this ground; for, while they threw around it all the sanction and protection of the national character and power for twenty years, they set no bounds to its continuance by any positive constitutional prohibition.

I had now opened my case to Mr. Forester, and he had given me positive assurances of his protection.

A little subsequent reflection, however, showed me the utter hopelessness of any such proceeding, as I had still only my simple, unsupported assertions to oppose to the strong array of positive and circumstantial evidence against me; that, therefore, no such applications as I contemplated could be listened to for a moment.

To say nothing of his positive orders, I obeyed his every slightest wish with a promptitude and alacrity that left him no shadow of ground to complain of me.

"I'm positive Mr. Sloan's won't let him.

The reasoning which would make the positive degree to be no degree, would also make the nominative case, or the casus rectus of the Latins, to be no case.

The doctrine of grammarians about three such degrees, which they call the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative, must needs be absurd; both because in their Positive there is no comparison at all, and because their Superlative is a Comparative as much as their Comparative itself.' Hermes, p. 197."Brit.

The doctrine of grammarians about three such degrees, which they call the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative, must needs be absurd; both because in their Positive there is no comparison at all, and because their Superlative is a Comparative as much as their Comparative itself.' Hermes, p. 197."Brit.

No comparison can be imagined without bringing together as many as two terms, and if the positive is one of these, it is a degree of comparison; though neither this nor the superlative is, for that reason, "a Comparative."

5."The termination ish may be accounted in some sort a degree of comparison, by which the signification is diminished below the positive, as black, blackish, or tending to blackness; salt, saltish, or having a little taste of salt: they therefore admit of no comparison.

Here is indeed a comparison, but it is altogether in the positive degree, and needs no other name.

This again refutes Harris; who says, that in the positive there is no comparison at all.

and yet the form of the adjective is only that of the positive degree.

The following five want the positive:

"The devil offers his service; He is sent with a positive commission to be a lying spirit in the mouth of all the prophets.

Paralysis is proof positive of conjuration.

The world was just beginning to come out of positive shadow into the indistinctness of dawn.

And so this brave No. 11, with amplifications, antonyms, diaphoreses, epitases, tropes, metaphors, and other figures of that sort, I will beat out, I will enlarge, I will developas they develop a photographic negative.

She knew then that women of her type walked about with hidden powers unused, their lives narrowed and blighted, negative people who only needed some great test, some supreme task, to bring out those hidden forces, which, gushing through the soul, overflowing, would make of them characters of abounding vitality.

Doubtless he had been swept into the propellers, but if not quickly given release in their cyclopean strokes, he may have watched for a few minutes our vain attempt to negative his fate.

The slave sold, or carried into a distant country, must not be obliged to prove a negative, that he never forfeited his liberty.

With respect to the negative side of the scale, though I do not recollect definite instances, I can recall general impressions of oxen showing a deficiency from the average ox standard of self-reliance, about equal to the excess of that quality found in ordinary fore-oxen.

It is beyond dispute that these forms originate at an early age; they are subsequently often developed in boyhood and youth so as to include the higher numbers, and, among mathematical students, the negative values.

The Poet, after a seeming approval of suicide, from a consideration of the cares and crimes of life, finally rejecting it, discusses the negative importance of existence, contemplated in itself, without reference to good or evil.

"A non-ens or a negative can neither give pleasure nor pain."Kames, El. of Crit., i, 63.

Thus, in this peculiar application, an affirmative sentence always implies a negation; and a negative sentence, an affirmation.

A negative sentence implies an affirmation, and an affirmative sentence implies a negation, in these forms of the subjunctive.

So [requires] as; (with a negative expressing inequality;) as, 'He is not so wise as his brother.'

Its weakness as verse, for it certainly is weak, had nothing ignoble about it, and what is weak without being in the least base has already a negative distinction.

Several other amendments were offered but objected to, and the previous question having been ordered, the amendment was agreed to and the committee raised by a vote of 145 yeas to 38 nays; the negative vote coming, in the main, from the more pronounced anti-slavery men.

Give slave-holding States an absolute negative upon all action of Congress relating to slavery.

The similarity of the English and Spanish theatres does not consist merely in the bold neglect of the Unities of Place and Time, or in the commixture of comic and tragic elements; that they were unwilling or unable to comply with the rules and with right reason (in the meaning of certain critics these terms are equivalent), may be considered as an evidence of merely negative properties.

Rules for style, as for manners, must be chiefly negative: a positively good style indicates certain natural powers in the individual, but an unexceptionable style is merely a matter of culture and good models.

The policy of monopoly-prosecuted is merely negative.

Modern negative criticism generally adopts the latter solution, with the result that not a score of pictures pass muster, and the virtues of these chosen few are so extolled as to make it all but impossible to see the reverse of the medal.

The "Madonna and Saints" of the Louvre, which persistently bears Giorgione's name, in spite of modern negative criticism, is marked by a lurid splendour of colour and a certain rough grandeur of expression, well calculated to jar with any preconceived notion of Giorgionesque sobriety or reserve.

What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.

From top to bottom of Roman society negative forces replaced positive forces.

Any social synthesis includes positive and negative aspects which function side by side.

SW. of Brieg, a great centre of tourists and the starting-point in particular for the ascent of the Matterhorn. ZERO, a word of Arab origin signifying a cipher, and employed to denote a neutral point in scale between an ascending and descending series, or between positive and negative.

if; whether; expletive why; *un es no es* somewhat; with negative sometimes at all *sí* yes; *lo que * what certainly *sí* reflexive pron.

Their work is negative, oppositional.