Any benefit or privilege conferred by law or treaty on one must be common to all, and we are not at liberty, on a question of such vital interest and plain constitutional duty, to consider whether the particular case is one in which substantial inconvenience or injustice might ensue.

This, with our own provisions bought in the morning, furnished a substantial and much-needed meal.

The houses, built of tree-trunks plastered with mud, had roofs of thatched reed, and were far more substantial and better built than any I had yet seen in Persia.

We dismissed the Khivan with a substantial pour-boire.

At Kishlak, for instance, we found a substantial brick building with a large guest-room, down the centre of which ran a long table with spotless table-cloth, spread out with plates of biscuits, apples, nuts, pears, dried fruits, and sweetmeats, beautifully decorated with gold and silver paper, and at intervals decanters of waterrather cold fare with the thermometer at a few degrees above zero.

With the exception of these Barmecide feasts and some straw-flavoured eggs, there was nothing substantial to be got in any of the post-houses till we reached our destination.

The city is entered from the north by a substantial stone bridge, spanning a swift but shallow river.

Three large windows through which is seen a vast expanse of a semi-substantial material of the hue of a smoked primrose; against it is dimly visible an irregular and picturesque outline, probably of a range of mountains, some rocky and pyramidal, others horizontally banked.

If my Reader will give me leave to change the Allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same Instance to illustrate the Force of Education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his Doctrine of Substantial Forms, when he tells us that a Statue lies hid in a Block of Marble; and that the Art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous Matter, and removes the Rubbish.

I understood that want of pecuniary means prevented him from procuring to be made such mechanical improvements, and such substantial workmanship, as would make the operation of his invention more exact.

"I have acknowledgments of a similar kind to make to Professor Silliman and to Professor Gale; to the former of whom I am under precisely similar obligations with yourself for several useful hints; and to the latter I am most of all indebted for substantial and effective aid in many of my experiments.

With the equation of activity and existence (quod non agit, non existit) the substantiality which Spinoza had taken away from individual things is restored to them: they are active, consequently, in spite of their limitedness, substantial beings (quod agit, est substantia singularis).

Physical points, the atoms, are physical, but not points; mathematical points are indivisible, but not real; metaphysical or substantial points, the incorporeal, soul-like units, alone combine in themselves indivisibility and realitythe monads are the true atoms.

The land in this parish slopes down to the Firth of Forth; it is rich and well cultivated, and is divided into large farms, each of which has its group of red-roofed buildings, its substantial farmhouse, and its long tail of hinds' cottages.

Presently a person, in the habit and appearance of a substantial and well-bred English gentleman, appeared at his door and addressed me. '

Mr. Trumbull indignantly denied the truth of Hauser's statement, and Hauser as determinedly insisted that it was the truth, and the vote was therefore reconsidered, and by a substantial majority it was decided to substitute the name "Tower" for "Minaret."

You've got to have fitly squared and substantial foundations before you can build enduring beauty.

The building could not have been very substantial, for by an entry in the Wardbook of Cornhill ward, we find that in 1581, not fourteen years after its completion, some of the arches of the arcade were in an unsafe condition, and the lives of the merchants passing under were in danger.

Since that period it has undergone several reparations; but a most complete and substantial one was commenced in 1820, under the direction of Mr. Geo.

Even in the Vth dynasty we find Osiris and the gods of his cycle, or company, occupying a peculiar and special place in the compositions written for the benefit of the dead, and the stone and other monuments which belong to still earlier periods mention ceremonies the performance of which assumed the substantial accuracy of the history of Osiris as made known to us by later writers.

The commerce necessary for the Creek Nation shall be carried on through the ports and by the citizens of the United States if substantial and effectual arrangements shall be made for that purpose by the United States on or before the 1st day of August, 1792.

The free and enlightened get their breakfast after being two hours en route, and can do without anything before startingergo, we must do the same: thus, though there were literally servants enough in the house to form a substantial militia regiment, a cup of tea was impossible to be obtained for love or money.

As soon as ever I find myself in an independent position you shall have substantial proof of my enduring gratitude.

You shall pocket a substantial sum, my boy!

Perhaps the greater part of between three and four hundred thousand people, now imprisoned on suspicion, have been arrested for reasons as little substantial.

Under this Head may be reckon'd the placing the Adjective after the Substantive, the Transposition of Words, the turning the Adjective into a Substantive, with several other Foreign Modes of Speech which this Poet has naturalized to give his Verse the greater Sound, and throw it out of Prose.

Under this Head may be reckon'd the placing the Adjective after the Substantive, the Transposition of Words, the turning the Adjective into a Substantive, with several other Foreign Modes of Speech which this Poet has naturalized to give his Verse the greater Sound, and throw it out of Prose.

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The pretty name of May-flower is not so popular, after all, as that of Trailing-Arbutus, where the graceful and appropriate adjective redeems the substantive, which happens to be Latin and incorrect at the same time.

SECOND DEFINITION:"A Substantive or Noun is the name of any thing that exists, or of which we have any notion.

He should therefore have said, "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we have any notion."

THIRD DEFINITION:"An Adjective is a word added to a substantive, to express its quality.

It seems doubtful whether "its quality" is the adjective's quality, or the substantive's; but in either sense, the phrase is false; for an adjective is added to a noun, not to express any quality either of the adjective or of the noun, but to express some quality of the thing signified by the noun.

But our men of nine parts of speech innovated yet more: they added the Article, as did the Greeks; divided the Noun into Substantive and Adjective; and, without good reason, suppressed the Participle.

I and he are pronouns; now is an adverb; see and walks are verbs; the is an article; good, an adjective; man and difficulty are nouns, the former substantive, the latter abstract; coming is a participle; but, a conjunction; alas!

"Some times the adjective becomes a substantive.

"Every adjective agrees in number with some substantive expressed or understood.

(2.) Of the Substantive and Adjective; under which the agreement of participles, and of some pronouns, is placed in the form of a note.

Of one Substantive with an Other; which construction is placed by Lily and many others among the figures of syntax, and is called apposition.

Of an Adjective with a Substantive; under which principle, we are told to take adjective pronouns and participles.

Yet Lowth says, "The adjective in English, having no variation of gender and number, cannot but agree with the substantive in these respects.

"The adjective is put absolutely, or without its substantive.

Does every adjective "belong to a substantive, expressed or understood," as Murray avers?

Why is it reasonable to limit the government of the possessive to nouns only, or to words taken substantive?

How do Dr. Adam and others suppose "the gerund in English" to become a "substantive," or noun?

"As, for example, between the adjective and following substantive."Ib., ii. 104. "Witness the following hyperbole, too bold even for an Hotspur."Ib., 193.

As I was describing the Journey of Israel from Egypt, and added the Divine Presence amongst them, I perceived a Beauty in the Psalm which was entirely new to me, and which I was going to lose; and that is, that the Poet utterly conceals the Presence of God in the Beginning of it, and rather lets a Possessive Pronoun go without a Substantive, than he will so much as mention any thing of Divinity there.

Every articulate language is composed of substantive, adjective and copulative ideas.

"Fix your mind on the adjective 'blunt' and the substantive 'pistol-shot'; they will do you good service.

Now I defy you to prove that woman is not a substantive, created for herself.