I may say, therefore, that the sixth segment is like the others in plan, but that it is modified in its details.

The quantity of food required to keep the body in proper condition is modified to a great extent by circumstances.

Neither limb, Nor form, nor outline; yet we feel it is A living Spirit.' As to the phrase in the cancelled stanza, 'In darkness of his own exceeding light,' it need hardly be observed that this is modified from the expression in Paradise Lost (Book 3): 'Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear.' 1. 5.

Nor was Luther fully emancipated from the Catholic doctrine, modifying without essentially changing it.

The Turkish uniform, under indirect German influence, has been greatly modified during the past five years.

An institution or a law is a means, not an end, a means to be used for the public good, to be modified for the public good, and to be interpreted for the public good.

You can be off tomorrow!" Beaumaroy started violently, glanced at his old friend's strange figure, glanced once, too, at Mary; the expression of utter despair which his face had worn seemed modified into one of humorous bewilderment.

This began to be modified under the Empire, but in a shape not hitherto foreseen.

The instructions to our ministers with respect to the different belligerents were necessarily modified with a reference to their different circumstances, and to the condition annexed by law to the Executive power of suspension, requiring a decree of security to our commerce which would not result from a repeal of the decrees of France.

But the real issue between the two parties, which underlay all their proposed measures and professed principles, was the old struggle of classes, modified of course by the time and the place.

Since therefore it is easier, at least for uneducated men, to realise the existence of beings like than of beings unlike themselves, affection for one's like would appear to have a natural basis, but one likely to be modified as our powers of realisation are stimulated by education.

I examine the train and see that its composition has been modified on account of there being fewer travelers between Kachgar and Pekin.

No, certainly; but the sight of one of these nuts calls back to his memory the sensations which he has received from the other; and his eyes, modified after some certain manner, give notice to his palate of the modification it is in its turn going to receive.

Now, the influence of music might be modified beyond recognition by the fact that one of the lovers might not be musical; but surely, when both man and woman are professional musicians, there can be no doubt of the governing power of music.

I also recommend that the eighth article be modified by striking out all after the word "attempts" in the twenty-third line of that article.

This party is about to renew all administrations, great and small; the same majority which has elected him will modify before long the tendencies of the courts; in fine, the general affairs of the Union will be managed in a new spirit.

To permit a law to be modified at discretion, is to leave the community without law.

Shall man yield himself to the tendencies of natural selection and be modified out of existence by the pressure of his environment, or shall he turn upon himself some of the knowledge of Nature's forces he has gained and by "conscious evolution" begin an adaptation of the environment to the organism?

Definite variations from within, modified between narrow limits by accidental variation from without, is coming to be acknowledged as the chief factor of progress.