I must confess that I long doubted the possibility of being able to ascribe any biological value to this character, which appeared to me only conspicuous, and not protective.
I ascribe to this category, for example, that fine network of dark longitudinal streaks which often extends over the whole upper side of the caterpillar, and which is termed the “reticulation.
It would be a great error if we were to ascribe the possession of oblique stripes solely to descent from a common ancestor.
Some of the Khonds worship the sun-god; some the earth-goddess, and ascribe to her all success and power, while they hold particularly to human sacrifice in her honor.
To ascribe this verse to the 'older Manu' would be a grave slip on the part of a Sanskrit scholar.
Without this name may one ascribe to India what is found in Iran?
Men are inclined toascribe this human weakness to women.
The most familiar way is by the action of the tides on the sand of the sea-shore, and the interpreter who knows this way only would ascribe the marks at once to this agency.
But if you altogether hold your peace at such a time as this is; your silence at least seemingly will speak this Language; that you are not concerned tho' Men ascribe the power and providence of the Almighty to the worst of his Creatures.
If weascribe "personal immortality" to man, we are bound to grant it also to the higher animals.
To what, then, are we to ascribe the forbearance of the Connaught men, so singularly contrasted with the hideous excesses of their brethren in the east?
I would not ascribevice to him; I would not say he had betrayed me; but the attribute of stainless truth was gone from his idea, and from his presence I must go: that I perceived well.
It is surely absurd, with the anomalies and defects of the whole method of educating youth staring one in the face, to ascribe it to mere boy nature.
This freedom is that which we ascribe to the divinities, who live in conformity with Intelligence, and with the Desire of which it is the principle.
We ascribe free will only to him who, enfranchised from the passions of the body, performs actions determined solely by intelligence.
If again (we are to ascribe freedom of will) to reason accompanied by desire, does this mean to reason even when misled, or only to right reason, and right desire?
This stupendous Effect he contents himself to ascribe to the Energy of Percussion.
But the point upon which he specially insists, is, that all the narratives in circulation, true or false, respecting Gods and Heroes, shall ascribe to them none but qualities ethically estimable and venerable.
He disapproves of the received fictions, not because they are fictions, but because they tend to produce a mischievous ethical effect, from the acts which they ascribe to the Gods and Heroes.
Plato therefore requires the poet to ascribe all good things to the Gods and to no one else; but to find other causes, apart from the Gods, for sufferings and evils.
The poets must either not recount such proceedings at all, or must not ascribe them to Gods and Heroes.
We mustascribe all the good things to him, but for the evil things we must seek some other cause, and not God.
He expresses his surprise that the Athenian should be made to ascribe such discourses to the inspiration of the Gods (p.
Those who ascribe philanthropical motives to Gordon must entertain curious ideas as to the love of mankind, when they illustrate it by ravaging Ti-pingdom with fire and sword!
They ascribe this to pride and to the desire of being called rich and great.
They ascribe earthquakes to the moving of the great tortoise, which bears the Island (Continent) on its back.
What the Baron says here of this language is very correct; but why does he call it the Algonquin, and ascribe its origin to that miserable wandering tribe?
If a person treats them ill, they ascribe it invariably to his bad heart; it is the bad spirit within him that operates; he is, therefore, a bad man.
Nothing that she could think of occurred to cause it, and ultimately she could only ascribe it to nerves.
All that there was of queerness in this tumble-down pension became endowed with deliberate meaning, and it was no longer possible to ascribe the atmosphere to the effect of weakened nerves upon a weakened body.
Sylvia paused for a moment, and then continued, with swift gestures of self-agreement: "I certainly ascribe every mistake in my own life to a rapid digestion.
Her eyes were ageless, limpid as a child's; and that her experience of evil should have left no sign of its habitation Sylvia was tempted to ascribe to the absence of a soul for evil to mar.
We reply, this one text cannot be understood as subverting and militating against all those texts which ascribe justification to faith alone.
No one may seek for nor ascribe to himself power and honor because of his office and gifts.
My blindness and folly concealed from me my misconduct, and bade me ascribe all my sufferings to you, on whom I have inflicted so much pain.
But perhaps this was not needed to suggest to Chatterton that the surest way to win attention to his poems would be to ascribe them to some fictitious bard of the Middle Ages.
An historian like the Swiss, Johannes Müller, began to show the Middle Ages in a fairer light, and even to ascribe great merits to the Papacy.
I ascribe my constant good health and contentment to my unvarying routine of work and diet and exercise.
I ascribe the increased accuracy of my stroke at billiards to my increased nerve force, now I have made Pableine my staple article of diet in place of meat.
Those who ascribe this mildness of the Servian language to the Italian neighbourhood of Dalmatia, forget that the eastern Servians are remote from Italy.
The Polish literary historians, however, ascribe to Bathory's influence the fashion, which began at this time to prevail, of debasing the purity of the Polish language by an intermixture of Latin words and phrases.
To the talents and firmness of Stanislaus Konarski, himself a Piarist, the Polish literary historians ascribe the principal merits of the final victory of his order.
There is less intention in history than we ascribe to it.
Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.
Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
Consequently, we could not ascribe these deaths to a desire for plunder on the part of some unknown person.
Pythagoras did not ascribe to numbers any special virtue, 626-l.
Be modest also in your intercourse with your fellows, and slow to entertain evil thoughts of them, and reluctant to ascribe to them evil intentions.
Thereafter the experience gained by Cambyses in Egypt must have gone for something in the imperial education of his successor Darius, to whom historians ascribe the final organization of Persian territorial rule.
A long account of the new lights was published in the newspapers some time ago, in which they had the candour to ascribe the invention to Mr. Murdock.
Mr. Watt was the first to ascribe to the ingenuity of a friend things which were very often nothing but his own surmises followed out and embodied by another.
The thing is evident; and from this idea duly considered, will easily be deduced all those other attributes, which we ought to ascribe to this eternal Being.
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
His argument comes properly to this, If you ascribe injustice or partiality to Him whom you call God, you cannot be thinking of the Divine King.
