They have indeed expressions for these ideas," he adds, but these expressions "are equally applicable to other things.
Lord Avebury in this connection even quotes a statement to the effect that the expressions which the Tonga Islanders have for ideas like vice and injustice "are equally applicable to other things.
The law of talion presupposes equality of rights; it is not applicable to impersonal offences, nor to offences against kings or gods.
According to Muhammedan law, the rule of talion is applicable only to persons of age.
This doctrine was more or less realised in the monastic life, but was hardly held applicableto laymen.
In China lunatics are held responsible for their acts, although the ordinary penalty applicable is commuted, as for instance, in murder to imprisonment with fetters subject to His Majesty's pleasure.
Lord Pitmilly, after having stated the law as applicable to this case, summed up the evidence in a very clear and able manner.
These remarks are only too true, and applicablenot only in Argyllshire, but throughout the Highlands generally.
The engraving of the mother and child illustrating the ballad of Schlof Kindlein is truly beautiful, conceived in a spirit of naive fantasie, peculiarly applicable to the odd yet childlike song.
In short, if the definition of the term proposed is not applicable to both objects, they cannot be compared.
Similarly, the definition of the differentiae will be applicable to the species and to the individuals.
For those things to which the definition of the triangle or circle isapplicable are all equally triangular or circular.
If we call an individual man 'skilled in grammar', the predicate is applicable also to the species and to the genus to which he belongs.
Moreover, the definition of the species and that of the genus are applicable to the primary substance, and that of the genus to the species.
An index of subjects, applicable to these titles, has been prepared for the purpose of furnishing a specimen of what is proposed for the catalogue.
In short, so great is the variety of cases, that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to give rules applicable to them all.
Unquestionably they afford a power which should be used with judgment, then most applicable when the supernatural of the subject overpowers the familiarity of more natural effects.
The same conditions and restrictions that apply to the strike are applicable to lockouts.
Hence, it is not applicable to those laws whose universal observance is demanded by the common good--that is, to irritant laws.
The principles of a just strike are applicable to the justification of boycotts, and the conditions of a sympathy strike are to be applied to secondary boycotts, i.
The principle of Probabiliorism, likewise, is just as applicable to the court of conscience as to the civil court, since in both courts the aim is to get the truth as nearly as possible.
But every virtue renders to someone his due, and hence there is no reason why principles applicable to justice should not be applicable to other virtues also.
Hence, epieikeia is not applicable to the Divine Law; for the Divine Lawgiver foresaw all cases that could arise, and so excluded all exceptions (see 315).
Personal interest cannot be the foundation of any universal and general law as applicableto others as to ourselves, for the happiness of each depends on his own way of viewing things.
Reformation days; and, if regard be paid to the changed circumstances, are still applicable to the monastic and religious establishments now existing in England.
Just the same, Mrs. Browning's warning that "colours seen by candlelight do not look the same by day" is not truly applicable to these Village shrines.
Which recalls a story which is an old one but too applicable not to be quoted here.
In this form it is only strictly applicable to the British Isles, though the divisions adopted in other countries are generally similar, and in many cases identical.
Schmerling came to, respecting the filling up of the caverns near Liege, seems applicable to the caves of Brixham.
A theory, therefore, which attempts to account for the position of the loess cannot be satisfactory unless it be equally applicable to the basins of the Rhine and Danube.
Guyot's views, I crossed to the Italian side of the great chain and became convinced that the same theory was equally applicable to the ancient moraines of the plains of the Po.
Moreover, "waste" is a word which is applicable only to finite resources.
This is the only method of criticism applicable to the present work.
He states that the people are great admirers of the Greeks, and relates many particulars concerning them not applicable to their present state.
On the contrary, such a rule would be more applicable in regard to small differences; for in little particulars the ordinary observer and the man of great ability are equally liable to err.
In some localities, besides the marguilliers there was appointed a treasurer, or receiver of gifts or of fines made applicable to the Fabrique by the judge and other magistrates.
But Arthur conjectured it portended something else, and that the vision was applicable to himself and the emperor.
In the disputes arising from these joint captures, Sir William Scott was the first to establish a settled intelligible system, on principles that might become in future easily applicable to the various cases that might arise.
This name, however, is probably equallyapplicable to the Chiffchaff.
The local Guernsey-French name "Cormoran" is applicable probably to either the Shag or the Cormorant.
The time is ripe for the adoption of a temporary form of government for this island; and many suggestions made with reference to Alaska are applicable also to Puerto Rico.
This truth is applicableto lesser people, for it is just so with me.
It is for this reason, and this reason alone, that the wholesome principle of continuing in office, so long as he is willing to serve, an incumbent who has proved capable, is not applicable to the Presidency.
Practically all the methods employed for regulating the voltage of direct current dynamos and circuits, are applicable to alternators and alternating current circuits.
This device is onlyapplicable when alternating current is measured.
It is criticism inspired by this liberalising principle that is especially applicable to the vast sonnet-literature which was produced by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
This adage is particularlyapplicable to mechanics.
Their senses should be exercised in experiments, and these experiments should be simple, distinct, and applicable to some object in which our pupils are immediately interested.
