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reference 5525 occurrences

He pointed the reference frankly by a smile at Sylvia, who flushed with pleasure and looked down at her plate.

Taken in and by itself, without reference to Italy and the Mediterranean, that position has little to recommend it.

It is a subject that has been very completely worked out, and an excellent summary of the results will be found in the little volume on Roman education written by the late Professor A.S. Wilkins, just before his lamented death: but he was describing its methods without special reference to its defects, and it is these defects on which I wish more particularly to dwell.

During the Republican period the law left him absolutely at the disposal of his master, who had the power of life and death (jus vitae necisque) over him, and could punish him with chastisement and bonds, and use him for any purpose he pleased, without reference to any higher authority than his own.

There are Pauls who are saying, in reference to this subject, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"

I will proceed to offer some reasons for the belief, that when the Apostles enjoined on masters and servants their respective duties, they had reference to servitude in general, and not to any modification of it.

A reference to the prophecy as it stands; in Joel 2: 28, 29, makes it more obvious, that persons in servitude are referred to under the words doulos and doule; and, that the predicted blessing was to be shed upon persons of all ages, classes, and conditionsupon old men and young menupon sons and daughtersand upon man-servants and maid-servants.

But, under the interpretation of those, who, like Professor Hodge and yourself, confine the meaning of doulos and doule to a species of servants, the prophecy would have reference to persons of all ages, classes, and conditionsexcepting certain descriptions of servants.

And this is the illustration which Jesus here uses in reference to himself.

Let us hold on to this root word, and it will save us from the errors into which many have fallen in reference to this subject.

Any impression of them would be lacking without some reference to sea food.

6.Cobbett, after his own hasty and dogmatical manner, rejects the whole theory of nominatives absolute, and teaches his "soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and ploughboys," that, "The supposition, that there can be a noun, or pronoun, which has reference to no verb, and no preposition, is certainly a mistake.

With an infinitive or a participle denoting being or action in the abstract, an adjective is sometimes also taken abstractly; (that is, without reference to any particular noun, pronoun, or other subject;) as, "To be sincere, is to be wise, innocent, and safe.

its chief use declined to what creatures may be applied put for the distance, ("How far do you call IT?" &c., PRIESTL.,) without definite reference to an anteced.

JOH. appar. suggests wrongly the class; its true class according to its several relations No, or an other independent negative, repeated, its effect No, adv., not to be used with reference to a verb or part.

Obelisk, or dagger, as mark of reference.

Parallels, as marks of reference.

Participles, converted, disposal of their adverbs: must be construed with a regard to the leading word in sense: should have a clear reference to their subjects: needless use of, for nouns, to be avoided: punct.

verbs, why made a separate class treated List of Reference, marks of, ASTERISK, OBELISK, &c., shown; in what order are introduced what other signs of, may be used.

Reference, doubtful, Crit.

Each bed was laid out with especial reference to the crop that was to be put into it and the land was naturally so varied that there was the kind of soil and the right exposure for plants that required much moisture and for those that preferred a sandy soil, for the sun lovers and the shade lovers.

Hansard's Debates, the Statutes at Large, treatises illustrating the work of the office, and books of reference innumerable, are there; and the stationery shows a delightful variety of shape, size, and texture, adapted to every conceivable exigency of official correspondence.

SEE Claudy, Carl K. LATIMER, GLATHA H. Reference book of inorganic chemistry.

SEE Latimer, Wendell M. LATIMER, WENDELL M. Reference book of inorganic chemistry, by Wendell M. Latimer and Joel H. Hildebrand.

The marshal's reiterated reference to the law was becoming irksome.

source 5001 occurrences

For after an exchange of greetings, Linda divulged the source of her worried expression, which Stella had immediately remarked.

They recognise also, to a great extent, the same moral laws; but differ as to their evidence, and the source from which they derive their authority.

Nor is there any school of thought which refuses to admit that the influence of actions on happiness is a most material and even predominant consideration in many of the details of morals, however unwilling to acknowledge it as the fundamental principle of morality, and the source of moral obligation.

These were inspired by the spirit of chivalry, which, though considered, commonly, as a wild institution, the effect of caprice, and the source of extravagance, arose naturally from the state of society at that period, and had a very serious influence in refining the manners of the European nations.

The fire of the natural sun exists from no other source than from the fire of the spiritual sun, which is divine love, 380.

From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone.

But in some of the lines the pauses of punctuation do not come at the right points to make smooth reading: From the same source I have not taken

As she was the source of his greatest happiness, her loss was the occasion of his greatest sorrow.

His ideal was a kind of natural religion, in which God appears as the ultimate source of the beautiful and hardly as a being having any other relation to man.

If she gives more, it is a new source of desire; but the balance quickly rights itself.

The herds of horses were a further excellent source of income, for they could be sold to the Sung, who had no horses.

In the heart of Africa, five hundred miles from the coast and the source of supplies, an American engineer, aided by twenty-one American bridgemen, built twenty-seven viaducts from 128 to 888 feet long within a year.

From descriptions given by Mr. Harris, who has several times been fortunate enough to discover remains, it would appear that no superstitious ideas are held by this tribe with respect to the position in which the body is placed, the space accommodation of the sepulcher probably regulating this matter; and from the same source I learn that it is not usual to find the remains of more than one Indian deposited in one grave.

We had a few months ago from the same source one of the covers, of which the ornamentation was different but more entire.

O source of uncreated light, The Father's promised Paraclete!

Despair at our foundations then to strike, Till you can prove your faith Apostolic; A limpid stream drawn from the native source; Succession lawful in a lineal course.

A law, the source of many future harms, Had banish'd all the poultry from the farms; With loss of life, if any should be found 1070 To crow or peck on this forbidden ground.

But I may add that there is no doubt about it, for the news was confirmed, through another source, half an hour later.

"Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, is another source of darkness in composition.

"An other source of darkness in composition, is the injudicious introduction of technical words and phrases.

["Mare Nostrum" (Our Sea), the classic name for the Mediterranean.] was a species of blue beast, powerful and of great intelligencea sacred animal like the dragons and serpents that certain religions adored, believing them to be the source of life.

The actual moneys in circulation in every modern country consist of a wide variety of pieces, differing in denomination, physical size, shape and materials, mode of issue, source or authority of issue, and legal character.

They saw in paper money an unlimited source of income to the government.

The money use is the source of value of the paper notes.

From the year 1500 until 1800 the Western hemisphere was the main source of the precious metals, the alluvial deposits were widely scattered, were gradually discovered, were usually found in small quantities, and were extracted in primitive ways.

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