This decade was also remarkable for the commencement of the devotion to the cultivation of literary style, a pursuit yet to reach its culmination in Poliziano in Florence and in Bembo and Sadoleto in Rome.

It marks the culmination of the wonderful achievements in discovery for which the fifteenth century is so memorable.

That authority cannot have been acquired in a day, but represents the culmination of a long and gradual movement.

It is a continuation of Under Höststjaernen, and forms the culmination, the acquiescent close, of the self-expressional series that began with Sult.

It begins with St. Paul, is continued through St. Augustine, and finds its culmination in the great Mediaeval group of Duns Scotus, Albertus Magnus, Hugh of St. Victor and St. Thomas Aquinas.

We bring to an end our review of the "Synthetic Philosophy" by pointing out that the ethical doctrine constituting the culmination of the system which is set forth in the "Principles of Ethics" is fundamentally a corrected and elaborated version of the doctrine propounded in "Social Statics" issued as long ago as 1850.

He who has undertaken to describe the parabola of a projectile, cannot be satisfied with tracing its gradual rise and determining its culmination.

In a nation of the blind he saw the truth about the American colonies; he predicted with exactitude the culmination of the revolution in Napoleon.

Elizabethan England alone had the good fortune to experience the culmination of these two movements at one and the same time.

Possibly, could they have foreseen the happy culmination of the adventures that lay before them, they would still have gone on, for the love of excitement is strong in the heart of robust youth.

We say, somewhat incorrectly, "Things have come to a climax," meaning thereby a culmination; or we say, "The catastrophe is at hand,"

It is so hard to love voluntarily,to satisfy one's self with minor affections,to know that life offers no more its grandest culmination, its divinest triumph,to accept a succession of wax-lights because the sun and the day can return no more,above all, to feel that the capacity of receiving that sunlight is fled,that, so far, one's own power is eternally narrowed, like the loss of a right hand or the blinding of a right eye!

As Feuerbach, following out this naturalistic tendency, reached the extreme of materialism, the influence of his philosophywhose different phases there is no occasion to trace out in detailhad already passed its culmination.

Of Emerson's own life-work this is hardly the place to speak at large, but in connection with the development of that 'Religion of the Spirit' in which Dr. Martineau sees the culmination of the theological progress of Unitarianism, Emerson's share must be allowed to be a large one.

The Science of Knowledge (the world a product of the ego) enters as it is into the later form of the Fichtean philosophy; the latter gives up none of the fundamental positions of the former, but only adds to it a culmination, by which the appearance of the building is altered, it is true, but not the edifice itself.

The eulogy in question compared Ralph to Demosthenes, and said that he must go on in his high course, and gripe the palm from Graecia's greatest son; and that from the obscure shades of private life, his devoted Tumles would watch the culmination of his genius, and rejoice to reflect that they had formerly partaken of lambs-wool together in the classic shades of William and Mary; with much more to the same effect.

the universe, if it had the power of self-realization, its end attained, would rejoice and admire this culmination of its own genesis and existence.

The great political struggle between the North and the South, between Freedom and Slavery, was approaching its culmination.

We associate with Solomon the culmination of the Jewish monarchy, and a reign of unexampled prosperity and glory.

He no longer turned to the financial reports in the papers; and the pedigree of the Woodses hung in the living-hall for all men to see, beginning gloriously with Woden, the Scandinavian god, and attaining a respectable culmination in the names of Frederick R. Woods and of William, his brother.