Inquiry in this particular case speedily brings home to one the fact that one is investigating the antecedents of a well-recognised New Army type, a thoroughly representative type, as well as those of an individual.
They allowed me no more in the way of antecedents than if I had been a new creation on the day when I first met Mrs. Rossiter.
Suppose I accepted you as what you say you are--as a young woman of good antecedents and honorable character.
That some one antecedent is the cause of a given effect, because all other antecedents have been found capable of being eliminated, is a just inference, only if the effect can have but one cause.
That no variation in any effect or consequent will take place while the whole of the antecedents remain the same, may be affirmed with full assurance.
Those who think that causes draw their effects after them by a mystical tie, are right in believing that the relation between volitions and their antecedents is of another nature.
It is, therefore, highly probable that all sequences from complex antecedents are thus resolvable, and that ultimate laws are in all cases comparatively simple.
But, that the addition of some new antecedent might not entirely alter and subvert the accustomed consequent, or that antecedents competent to do this do not exist in nature, we are in no case empowered positively to conclude.
For in all cases of recognized causation there is a perceived connexion between the cause and the effect; the antecedents are physical, and the consequents are physical.
However questionable the antecedents of these three terriers may have been, they are undoubtedly the progenitors of our present strain, and from them arose the kennels that we have to-day.
The position of a servant in town is well known, the antecedents of a girl before she reaches town perhaps not so thoroughly, while the lives of those who remain in the villages drop out of sight of the great world.
It would perhaps be impossible to find two peoples who are farther removed from each other in temperament and training—whose nature and antecedents are more irreconcilable at all points.
It is necessary, however, in considering this question, that we remember specially that the antecedents and the environment of the native Christian have been entirely Hindu.
When we learn to forget our antecedents and prejudices and to study well the Hindu mind and its tendency, then perhaps shall we be prepared to present a Christianity which will commend itself universally to that land.
The native Christian manifests, in this respect, the weakness of his antecedents and his environment.
Indeed, there can be no principle of the laws of nations plainer than this, that when a ship is once commissioned by a sovereign power, no other power can look into the antecedents of the ship.
Indeed, you had a better reason for inquiring into the antecedents of the former, than of the latter; it having been alleged that the former escaped from England in violation of your Foreign Enlistment Act.
This was the first English port I had entered, since the Alabama had been commissioned, and no question, whatever, as to the antecedents of my ship was raised.
On principle you might as well have undertaken to inquire into the antecedents of the Alabama as of the Tuscaloosa.
In both it is a pretension on the part of a foreign power, to look into the antecedents of a ship of war--neither more nor less in the one case than in the other.
We have many such instances in the army and civil service,--men filling important positions, of whose birth and early antecedents no questions are asked.
In this spirit I answer your inquiries, beginning with the antecedents of the two candidates.
The one faith on which all normal living beings consciously or unconsciously act, is that like antecedents will be followed by like consequents.
But it does not follow that the action of two people who have had tolerably similar antecedents and are placed in tolerably similar circumstances should be more unlike each other in this second case than in the first.
I find it possible to imagine in some dim way a series of states of consciousness serving as antecedent to any one of the movements I see going on; for my own states of consciousness are often indirectly the antecedents to such movements.
The antecedents of these papers those who have read this Introduction will now be in a position to understand.
Ley, of Antwerp, who was for some time medical specialist to a school for defectives, has made a very complete study of the heredity and personal antecedents of hundreds of defective children.
Had the witness ever been in contact with a case of poisoning where the whole scheme had been concocted and carried out by a girl of twenty, far removed by education, friends and antecedents from any connection with crime?
Elizabeth was pretty and to all appearance, well-bred, but still people thought of her antecedents and maintained towards her an attitude of doubt.
We should have a broader, kindlier charity for all sorts of people, and remember that, since we do not know their antecedents and the influences leading to their actions, we should not be hasty to judge.
If he hadn't shown deep contrition and regret for that course I shouldn't wish you to forgive him, even though his antecedents had made anything better scarcely possible.
The antecedents of that mysterious fair-haired "Find" are still in doubt, but this signifies little.
His real name, former home, and antecedentsmight be asked.
Sir Donald and Esther were harassed by all sorts of questions as to the antecedents of their friends.
Much as antecedents and purposes of these people interest me it will not be wise to risk vocal curiosity.
Both were interested in Paul's antecedentsand future prospects.
His chief reciprocates by not referring to Oswald's antecedents and by relieving him from the natural curiosity of fellow-workers.
The one might have existed for any length of time, and the other not have followed the sooner for its existence; it follows only if certain other antecedents exist; and where those antecedents existed, it would follow in any case.
To do so, we must be able to meet with some of the antecedents apart from the rest, and observe what follows from them; or some of the consequents, and observe by what they are preceded.
In every instance which comes under our observation, there are many antecedents and many consequents.
A, alone of the five circumstances, was found among the antecedents of a in both instances.
We have ascertained one invariable antecedent or consequent, however many other invariable antecedents or consequents may still remain unascertained.
Certain causes being given, that is, certain antecedents which are unconditionally followed by certain consequents; the mere coexistence of these causes will give rise to an unlimited number of additional uniformities.
In such cases it is very common to single out one only of the antecedents under the denomination of Cause, calling the others merely Conditions.
But if (as continually happens) we cannot take this ulterior step, the differentantecedents must be set down provisionally as distinct causes, each sufficient of itself to produce the effect.
This, supposing it done, will not of itself tell us on which of the antecedents each consequent is invariably attendant.
Bishop of Florence to investigate theantecedents of Accursio.
The wages paid to Parish Watchmen were miserable, and the men usually engaged were those whoseantecedents and qualifications precluded them from obtaining more lucrative or reputable employment.
Spread reports about the great quantities of gold to be found in Puerto Rico, and do not trouble about the antecedents of those who wish to go, for if not useful as laborers they will do to fight.
Questioned by him they alluded to the lady's doubtful antecedents as sufficient justification for their refusal to present her to their wives.
I will not enlarge on the familyantecedents of the great composers.
Martin-Roget's antecedents are just as he has told you.
Martin-Roget's antecedents and present connexions I would not have ventured to present him to your Highness.
Beaumesnil to marry a man who can furnish those same guarantees,--those same reassuring antecedents you spoke of as desirable in the Queen of Spain's husband?
