What causes justify an inversion of the hours? Is it a sin to say Matins of following day before finishing Compline of the current day?

You are alive, yet behold this inversion of order that time hath brought.

Then if we fix our thought on this potential in ourselves as being identical with its manifestation in Him, we can logically claim our identity with Him, so that what He has done we have done, what He is, we are, and thus recognizing ourselves in Him we present this image of ourselves to the Eternal Mind, with the result that we bring with us no inversion, and so import no negative current into our stream of Life.

Could the mind conceive a more grotesque inversion of the law of services and rewards?

I had not the least doubt, that he found, in his country, many things to please him; nor did I suppose, that he desired the same inversion of every part of life, as of the use of tea.

And in Lemna I have found an apparent inversion of the embryo with relation to the apex of the nucleus.

Nay, even the distinction between the phenomenon itself, as the object of our representations, and our representations of it, is effected only by subjecting the phenomenon to this rule, which assigns to it its definite position in time after another phenomenon by which it is caused, and thus forbids the inversion of the perceptions.

"You thought these came from someone else?" he said, trying to grasp this inversion of the universe.

" No careful artist tolerates such ugly, rasping inversions.

This is the fifth record showing a constant inversion of temperature for a few hundred feet and then a gradual fall, so that the temperature of the surface is not reached again for 2000 or 3000 feet.

(Afterwards it was quite delightful to see the beautifully matter-of-fact way with which the good lady took all these amazing inversions.)

He avoids a Latinized inversion, such as the following, with which Milton begins the second sentence of his Areopagitica (1644): "And me perhaps each of these dispositions, as the subject was whereon I entered, may have at other times variously affected ..." Here, the object "me" is eighteen words in advance of its predicate.

Lyly's striking contrasts and Sidney's flowery prose do not appeal to Hooker, who uses Latin inversions and parenthetical qualifications, and adds clause after clause whenever he thinks it necessary to amplify the thought or to guard against misunderstanding.