And if I may obtain your Condescension to my Hymenaeal Propositions, I doubt not my Operation with the Fair One. Doct.

I was inform'd there was a Person here had Propositions of Marriage to make me.

At last they came back, and assented to every one of her propositions.

Step by step the learned students before alluded to have established certain propositions which appear to me to be true, and which I shall accept without further discussion.

Accordingly, the assembly resolved that no further propositions should be made for peace, and that the war should be prosecuted with vigor.

We need not go at any length into the history of the long debates on Peel's propositions.

He also sent others in his turn, so as to put the blame of the war upon the senators, and make some counter-propositions which saved his face but were impossible of performance by Caesar and those who sided with him.

[-42-] The people in the City on hearing this for a time held him in contempt, but when they heard that Antony and Lepidus had become of one mind they began again to court his favor,for they were in ignorance of the propositions he had made to Antony,and assigned to him charge of the war against the two.

The reporter in such cases must not think to defend himself by pretending that he spake nothing false; for such propositions, however true in logic, may justly be deemed lies in morality, being uttered with a malicious and deceitful (that is, with a calumnious) mind, being apt to impress false conceits and to produce hurtful effects concerning our neighbour.

Everybody agrees in the obvious propositions, "An ounce of prevention""As the twig is bent""The child is father to the man""Train up a child""A stitch in time""Prevention is better than cure""Where the lambs go the flocks will follow""It is easier to form than to reform," and so on ad infinitumproverbs multiply.

The king of England offered, likewise, to mediate between them; but his propositions were rejected at Vienna, where a resolution was taken, not only to revenge the interruption of their success on the Rhine, by the recovery of Silesia, but to reward the Saxons for their seasonable help, by giving them part of the Prussian dominions.

I am persuaded that nothing, in modern education, tends so much, when properly used, to form exact thinkers, who attach a precise meaning to words and propositions, and are not imposed on by vague, loose, or ambiguous terms.

In the early part of 1830 I had begun to put on paper the ideas on Logic (chiefly on the distinctions among Terms, and the import of Propositions) which had been suggested and in part worked out in the morning conversations already spoken of.

These movements, though the propositions of Messrs. Hale and Palfrey were voted down, were not without their effect.

The practical uses to which this subtile fluid, electricity, is being put are causing changes to be made in time-tested methods of doing things in domestic, scientific, and business circles, and the time has passed when startling propositions to accomplish this or that by the assistance of electricity are dismissed with incredulous smiles.

So far as the object of the book itself is concerned, he succeeded admirably; the propositions are clearly and beautifully worked out, and the hints on proving Propositions in Euclid Book V., are most useful.

So far as the object of the book itself is concerned, he succeeded admirably; the propositions are clearly and beautifully worked out, and the hints on proving Propositions in Euclid Book V., are most useful.

PROPOSITIONS.

"Whatever a man conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put into distinct propositions, and express clearly to others."See

"The Pronoun sometimes stands for a name; sometimes for an adjective, a sentence, or a part of a sentence; and, sometimes, for a whole series of propositions.

The evidence before the Commission is, that is to say, collected not to illustrate general propositions otherwise established, but to provide quantitative answers to quantitative questions; and instances are in each case accumulated according to a well-known statistical rule until the repetition of results shows that further accumulation would be useless.

These twenty-three propositions, which were by subsequent additions increased to forty or fifty, exhibit such a variety of legislative plans that it is impossible to subject them to any classification.

Among the propositions submitted then and afterwards were several wild and visionary projects of government.

The informal propositions and discussions of the day previous were renewed, but resulted only in calling out views and schemes too vague on the one hand or too extreme on the other.

In this pamphlet Guarini traversed the professor's propositions with a good deal of scholastic ergotism: 'As in compounds the hot accords with the cold, its mortal enemy, as the dry humour with the moist, so the elements of tragedy and comedy, though separately antagonistic, yet when united in a third form,' et cetera et cetera.