But such an express, actual intention is not necessary; a virtual intention, which finds expression in the opening of the Breviary to recite the office, suffices.

The mere opening of the book, the finding out of the office, the arrangement of the book markers, are ample evidence of the existence of a virtual intention quite sufficient for the valid recitation of the office.

Subjectively, virtual attention suffices; habitual is divided into actual and interpretative.

Virtual attention is attention which was once actual, but is not such at the time spoken of, but which lives virtually.

Subjectively, virtual attention suffices; habitual does not suffice, neither does interpretative.

A confessor should tell a cleric, scrupulous in this point, that his fear is groundless and that by the very act of taking up his Breviary he expresses his intention of praying, of saying his Hours; that it is not necessary that such intention be actual or reflexive, it is sufficient if it be virtual, and that such an intention does exist every time one opens the Breviary to say his Hours.

There is a numerous class of readers who imagine that the same words cannot be repeated without tautology; this is a great error: virtual tautology is much oftener produced by using different words when the meaning is exactly the same.

To-day he is the chief servant of the King in the Federation, the loyal head of the Administration under the Crown, one of the half-dozen Prime Ministers of the Empire, the responsible representative and virtual ruler of all races, classes, and sects in South Africa, acclaimed by the men he led in the battle and the rout no less than by the men who faced him across the muzzles of the Mausers ten years ago.

These powers seem to imply a virtual pardon to Raleigh, and perhaps made, him less solicitous for an actual one.

We cannot know one thing alone; two ideas enter into every distinct act of the understanding,one latent and virtual, the other active and at the surface.

To the master it secures a mere legal compensationto the apprentice, both a legal compensation and a virtual gratuity in addition, he being of the two the greatest gainer.

If it has power to prohibit immoderate correction, it can prohibit moderate correctionall correction, which would be virtual emancipation; for, take from the master the power to inflict pain, and he is master no longer.

This would require the edge of the cut-off valve at the given instant to be at Q, perpendicularly over H; and the travel over the main valve would be equal to twice C H, the virtual lever arm of the eccentric, the actual traverse in the valve chest being twice O H, the real eccentricity.

The ruler realized that he could offer no serious resistance, while the existing circumstances guaranteed him virtual independence and he yielded to Kao Tsu without a struggle.

At last, however, between sobs, burying her tear-stained face on Rafael's shoulder, she began to speak, completely crushed, fainting from virtual prostration.

The virtual control of the settlement of the eastern portion of Utah is thus vested in the Church; for these grants include almost all the lands which are immediately valuable for occupation.

Wealth, virtual wealth and debt.

Wealth, virtual wealth and debt.

Wealth, virtual wealth and debt.

ROSSBY, C. G. A table of mean virtual temperatures for the air column between sea level and 10,000 feet.

" The Willard house was in a virtual state of siege.

As to René, his is the vain sentimentality parading its own impotency for higher feelings, a virtual boasting of want of soul,the sickly dissatisfaction of Werther, without his passion for an excuse.

It was a singular freak of fortune which translated the Mancini girls from their modest home in Italy to the magnificence of the French Court, as the adopted children of their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, the virtual ruler of France, and the avowed lover (if not, as some say, the husband) of Anne of Austria, the Queen-mother.

EGBERT, king of Wessex, a descendant of Cedric the founder; after an exile of 13 years at the court of Charlemagne ascended the throne in 800; reigned till 809, governing his people in tranquillity, when, by successful wars with the other Saxon tribes, he in two years became virtual king of all England, and received the revived title of Bretwalda; d. 837.

Great Britain's action in seizing her own ships, or ships chartered by her own subjects, had the effect of placing a virtual blockade upon a neutral port, for few but English ships carried for the Transvaal or Orange Free State, a fact which bore with especial hardship upon American shippers.