Our political system would thus present the anomaly of a people stripped of the right to foster their own industry and to counteract the most selfish and destructive policy which might be adopted by foreign nations.

" To explain this apparent anomaly Westermarck assumes that the object of the concealment "is to excite through the unknown!"

I.The putting of a noun in an unknown case after a participle or a participial noun, produces an anomaly which it seems better to avoid; for the cases ought to be clear, even in exceptions to the common rules of construction.

Yet hear what Walter Scott, a sufficient judge, said of Byron: "The errors of Lord Byron arose neither from depravity of heartfor nature had not committed the anomaly of uniting to such extraordinary talents an imperfect moral sensenor from feelings dead to the admiration of virtue.

ALFONSINE TABLES, astronomical tables drawn up at Toledo by order of Alfonso X. in 1252 to correct the anomalies in the Ptolemaic tables; they divided the year into 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 16 seconds.

In the relations of this visible world we find them to have been as rational, and shrewd to detect an historic anomaly, as ourselves.

Among these acquisitions I may mention a new species of Amphioxus, a genus of small fishes exhibiting more anomalies than any other known to ichthyologists, and the lowest organisation found in the class; it somewhat resembles the sand-eels of Britain in habits, like them moving with extraordinary rapidity through the sand.

When, after all the trouble we have taken, we merely find anomalies and confusion, we are disgusted with what is so uncongenial: and, as our higher faculties have not been called into action, they are not unlikely to be outgrown by the lower, and overborne as it were by the underwood of our minds.

And why, in his Pronouncing Dictionary, he gave us several such anomalies as fa-ba-ce-ous in four syllables and her-ba-ceous in three, it is not easy to tell.

This strange young man was holding up to his view a perfectly strange anomaly which he called a woman.

I am not so fond of honouring these anomalies.

The laws enacted for their protection, and in the absence of which they fall an easy prey to the more unscrupulous among their energetic neighbours, tend to keep them in a condition of perpetual pupillage, and the relation subsisting between them and the Government, which treats them, partly as independent peoples, and partly as infants under its guardianship, involves many anomalies and contradictions.

These data, which are obtained from the manufacturers, are probably exaggerated, but they are in the main well founded; and the traveller in the Philippines often has the opportunity of observing similar anomalies.

She offers the apparent anomaly of extreme detachment and of an unconquerable love of life.

On Aug. 10th the calculations of our observations shewed that there was something wrong, and on the 13th I perceived an anomaly in the form of the knife edge of one pendulum, and of its agate planes, and suggested cautions for repeating the observations.

Did the name of Washington sanction, did the States deliberately ratify, such an anomaly in the history of fundamental legislation?

The grievance was still at the old squire's heart in spite of the amenity of Mr. Brown's letter; but John Caldigate, who was approaching his house and his wife, and to whom, after his imprisonment even the flat fields and dykes were beautiful, did not at the moment much regard the anomaly of the machinery by which he had been liberated.

But we have traced the anomalies in government and religion in the two countries, which led to totally different pursuits and feelings.

Katherine's wit was sharpened by the exigency, and she managed to use the window again as a post, only fearingfrom Janet's anomaly of Solomon's wordsthat some one waited below to capture the flying missive.

Independently of these considerations, it will not escape observation that South Carolina still claims to be a component part of the Union, to participate in the national councils and to share in the public benefits without contributing to the public burdens, thus asserting the dangerous anomaly of continuing in an association without acknowledging any other obligation to its laws than what depends upon her own will.

Then we should see something of the spirit of consistent gallantry; and no longer witness the anomaly of the same mana pattern of true politeness to a wifeof cold contempt, or rudeness, to a sisterthe idolater of his female mistressthe disparager and despiser of his no less female aunt, or unfortunatestill femalemaiden cousin.

Commonly an ingenious mind may invent some better expression, and yet avoid any syntactical anomaly.

Assign General Joseph Hooker, subject to the approval of the President, to any other corps command you may have, and break up the anomaly of one general commanding two (2) corps.