"If the English," said he, interrupting me, "who are the most commercial people of modern times, have not acquired the same character, it is because they are as distinguished for other things as for traffic: they are not merely a commercial peoplethey are also agricultural, warlike, and literary; and thus the natural tendencies of commerce are mutually counteracted.

Observant visitors to the National Academy of Design will allow that a tendency to greatness is beginning to develop itself in certain directions among our artists.

Other fellas have noticed the same tendency in chaparejos.

If he can only curb his natural tendency toward frivolity and jocoseness, I am in hopes that he will be able to draw his salary as promptly and efficiently as though he were a younger man.

WALL STREET, 10-1/2 A.M.The market opened briskly with a tendency towards DELMONICO'S for early refreshments.

There was less tendency on the part of the umpires to render their decisions without being in a position to follow the play correctly.

There is always a tendency for actions which were at first voluntary to become automatic, that is, to pass from the region of conscious mind into that of subconscious mind, and to acquire a permanent domicile there.

The great success of these societies demonstrates plainly that there is a strong tendency among the peoples in favor of peace.

" In a famous book, Degeneration, written at the close of the nineteenth century, Max Nordau, as a pathologist, explains this tendency by arguing that our complex civilization has placed too great a strain upon the limited nervous organization of man.

Have I got this as an ever present Law of Tendency at the back of my thought?

The amusements called "morrice," "fox and geese," &c., with which some of the children of almost every neighborhood are more or less acquainted, are of the same general character and tendency as checkers.

It is necessary, my lords, for those who are so watchful against the breach of justice, to prove that any means can be unjust which have no other tendency than the detection of wickedness, of wickedness too artful or too powerful to be punished by the common rules of law.

As these two kinds of literature had a common ground in diction, there was a tendency from very early times for them to merge.

' All this was an utter surprise, and a saddening one; for I had grown to feel much interest in the girl, and had been especially pleased by all absence of the flighty tendencies with which too many girls in public service tempt men to their own destruction.

For Recent Tendencies in State Activities, see paper by W.F. Willoughby, to be published in the "Papers of the American Historical Association," Vol.

To give to him that hath is the tendency against which we must ever guard in planning and administering systems of public education.

Nothing but a sentiment can induce us to give the preference to beneficial and useful tendencies over pernicious ones.

There is a very decided tendency throughout the country, particularly in the South, to prohibit all buying or selling of futures, that is to say, of a crop not actually sold, or of any article where physical delivery is never intended, and it will be remembered we found plenty of precedent for such legislation in early English statutes.

Of the virtues of her great parents she, like their other children, had inherited not one; and she had exaggerated their family tendencies into passions which urged her into every form of crime.

If Ophelia developed any really serious suffragette tendencies during the next day or two he would go on the beef hunt himself and let Parker remain at the ranch!

Although the bill under consideration proposes no appropriation ior a road or canal, it is not easy to perceive the difference in principle or mischievous tendency between appropriations for making roads and digging canals and appropriations to deepen rivers and improve harbors.

The increasing importance and the social elevation of servants in his drama is but another tendency along the same line.

By incorporating this dangerous tendency within itself, Islam has averted the peril which it threatens.