Gospel extant approximates to the reading in Justin, and we are expressly told by Irenaeus that the present reading of our Matthew was that existing in his day.
The latter verse, the Greek of the concluding part of which we give above, approximates more nearly in form to Justin's, but is still widely different.
By reflex action of which the afferent stimulus acts upon the eyes as in fishes, the chromatophores assume a condition which approximates the colour of the animal to that of surrounding objects.
The resulting cement varies somewhat in composition, but approximates to the following figures:-- Per cent.
He is the greatest portrayer of the physico-spiritual region in the natural man: that side of the spirit which most nearly approximates to the flesh.
Another group approximates to the passionless Insight of the Ages.
In their dreams these patients regularly live over the traumatic situation; where there are attacks of an hysterical type, which permit of an analysis, we learn that the attack approximates a complete transposition into this situation.
If the description sketched here approximates the truth, it opens up the possibility for an understanding of the dream symbolism.
Trade between Algeria and France, mostly in wines and food stuffs on one side, and manufactured products on the other, approximates three hundred millions of francs in each direction.
Again, the Mystic finds his full delight in all that approximates most nearly to Simultaneity, and Eternity; and consequently turns away, qua Mystic, from the Successive and Temporal presented by History.
The chin is divided by a dimple; the whole face approximates to a virile rotundity.
Lastly we come to the Myxomycetes, a group which, though distinctly fungal, approximates in some degree to the animal kingdom.
The Xenopeltis preys chiefly on small mammalia, which it hunts for in their subterranean holes; and in some respects it approximates the Pythonidae.
Great Dragon, and in some respects approximates the following Old World family of Varanidae.
This is one of several points in which the oldest Latin approximates to the other Italian dialects, from which it gradually became more divergent.
The Germania, however, in certain portions [51] approximates to it, and in other ways shows a slight increase of maturity over the biography of Agricola.
In the more highly wrought episodes, like the Cupid and Psyche, the new Latin of Apuleius often approximates nearly to assonant or rhymed verse.
The great majority of the Eocene plants are referable to the groups of the Angiospermous Exogens and the Monocotyledons; and the vegetation of the period, upon the whole, approximates closely to that now existing upon the earth.
The interlacing of the combinations approximates more or less to a coalescence of them in proportion to the number and value of the motions that coalesce.
It then becomes probable that the theological significance of Cherubim and Seraphim belongs to the remains of the very earliest form of Hebrew religion, and approximates to the facts of which I shall speak at Chapter VI.
Do we, by proving that the moral, as well as the immoral man is determined in his action by feelings, show that the one approximates to, or is identical with the other?
It presents a much narrower form than is usual among the River-drift implements, and in outline closely approximates to some of the neolithic rough-hewn celts.
It approximates in form to the pulley-like stones to which the name of sling-stones has been given, but the use of which is at present a mystery.
Such a form approximates most closely to some of those which there appears reason for regarding as triangular arrow-heads.
In general character this specimen approximates to a somewhat rare Irish form, shortly to be mentioned, of which I possess a |198| specimen.
They are lost in a trance of what approximates to dervish passion--so thrilling is the surge of sound, so potent are the rhythms they obey.
IT did not take Hopkins many days to discover that a life of elegant leisure in London approximates labour of the hardest sort.
If you mean that I am half-way between things which should be seen and not heard, and other things which should be heard and not seen, I fancy your surmiseapproximates correctness.
These, it will be seen, give a result whichapproximates to that of the sets I and II.
Southern margin of range in central Mexico approximates the 19th degree of latitude (see Figure 11).
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