It is to the science of Chemistry that we owe all our artificial productions, it is to the science of Chemistry that we owe all our knowledge and comprehension of natural productions, and their adaption to our several uses.
In February, 1677, she acted Berenice in Otway's Titus and Berenice, a rather tame adaption of Racine.
In 1681 Lady Slingsby performed Queen Margaret in Crowne's Henry VI, the First Part with the Murder of Gloucester, anadaption of Shakespeare's I Henry VI, suggested by the great success of his previous alteration.
Maybe the language suffered in the adaption but that does not palliate the offense perpetrated upon the lady who was endeavoring to perform a duty and teach a lesson by her consummate art.
The political structure has often, as in our own case, been pulled down by an excusable impatience of the people; but seldom has it been repaired with such solidity, and just adaption to their wants.
And the one given above is an adaption from the Lord's Prayer, given in order that it may be seen how well its spirit could be adapted to world democracy.
Perhaps half a dozen were found in a quarter century, and of that six maybe only one was suitable for human life without any costly and lengthy adaption of man or world.
And that particular toughening process which had been working on him for years now aided in his speedy adaption to a new set of facts, formidable ones.
This early adaption of the stagecoach to the rapidly developed demand for passenger service necessitated the coinage of a new terminology, and it is not surprising that many words of stagecoach days remained.
This first sleeping car was, as was later the first Pullman car, an adaption of an ordinary day coach to sleeping requirements.
There is another adaption of Southerne: ‘Oroonoko altered from the original play .
The Jew of Venice (1701), is a piteously weak adaption of The Merchant of Venice.
