1850 examples of specific in sentences

To see the first, required a specific introduction to the owner; to see the second, application to the attendants of the churches became necessary, and for both these you were required to pay fees to the servants and church-attendants, who are always impatient to take your fee and hurry you through the apartments or chapels, scarcely giving you time to examine anything.

Do they damage her specific excellence?

This general antithesis between the 'good' and the 'bad' has numerous specific forms, applicable to different departments of human activity.

Any one of these adjectives either denotes value or censures lack of worth, and each gets its meaning by reference to the specific purpose, moral, aesthetic, or intellectual, it appeals to.

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For those who, with Agassiz, doubt the specific identity in any of these cases, and those who say, with Pictet, that "the later tertiary deposits contain in general the débris of species very nearly related to those which still exist, belonging to the same genera, but specifically different," may also agree with Pictet that the nearly related species of successive faunas must or may have had "a material connection."

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Of the specific gravity of the air he seems to be amusingly uncertain,making it first 833 times and afterwards 770 times less than that of water; and in the same connection he says, in chosen phrase, that 'density, or closeness, is another quality of the atmosphere,'as if it were its characteristic, and not common to all ponderable matter.

[A very neat way of arriving at specific gravity in its densest form is to distil the "funny column" of a weekly newspaper.

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This Government consented to restrictions in regard to a region of country wherein we had specific and peculiar interests only upon the conviction that the like restrictions were in the same sense obligatory on Great Britain.

Congress has no right under the Constitution to take money from the people unless it is required to execute some one of the specific powers intrusted to the Government; and if they raise more than is necessary for such purposes, it is an abuse of the power of taxation, and unjust and oppressive.

Specific precepts of the Mosaic law enforcing general principles.

Temporary service, and generally for a specific object, is inseparable from its meaning.

Besides, the fact of their being domestics, under heathen laws and usages, proclaimed their liabilities; their locality made a specific term unnecessary.

It is specific and to the point.

A specific clause is not to be held void on account of general terms, such as those of the preamble.

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Is it yielding to an individual preference too far, to say, that there seems almost a generic difference between these three and any others,however wide be the specific differences among themselves,to say that, after all, they in their several paths have attained to an habitual intimacy with Nature, and the rest have not?

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There is a most minute system of merit and demerit established; everything good and everything bad has a specific value in numbers and decimals, which is accurately recorded against the owners thereof in the reports made for each year.

Of the specific sounds given to the letters, he says, "The first of these matters is under the rule of every body, and therefore is very properly to be excluded from the discussions of that philosophy which desires to be effectual in its instruction.

1850 examples of  specific  in sentences