Mediterranean and Atlantic, and attains a length of from six to eight feet.
The Sea or Marsh Pink, whose graceful alternate branching stem attains a height of two feet only under most favorable conditions, from July to September opens a succession of pink flowers that often fade to white.
This species attains a diameter of fifteen or sixteen inches and is very high in the center.
He who fulfils the moral law attains bliss; that is a spur whether you admit it or not.
If the policy is grand and powerful, so will also be the war, and this may be carried to the point at which war attains to its absolute form.
The tree attains a height of more than 100 feet and a diameter of 3 feet or more.
It usually attains a height of about 70 feet and a diameter ranging from 2 to 3 feet, but is sometimes much larger.
In maturity, it attains a diameter of 5 feet or more and a height of over 80 feet.
Not uncommonly it grows in thickets where it attains only large shrub size.
In the forest, where it grows singly, it frequently attains a height of 100 feet with a straight stem, clear of branches for half its height.
It attains heights of 100 feet or more and diameters of 3 feet or over.
It requires plenty of light and attains great age.
In the Orient it attains enormous proportions and in this country it also grows to a fairly large size when planted on the open lawn or in groups far apart from other trees so that it can have plenty of room to spread.
When started under glass and transplanted out in April, it attains the size and the quality of the large Spanish onions of which it is a descendant.
Then slake the lime in a tub or tight box, adding the water a little at a time, until the whole attains the consistency of thick milk.
The butternut in Ontario sometimesattains a height of seventy feet and a trunk diameter of three feet.
On suitable soils itattains a height of eighty or ninety feet and a diameter of four feet.
But the fact is that man attains the natural term of years just as seldom as the brute; because the unnatural way in which he lives, and the strain of work and emotion, lead to a degeneration of the race; and so his goal is not often reached.
It seems to be so only because this desire--this Will--attains consciousness only in the individual, and therefore looks as though it were concerned with nothing but the individual.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
God in His mercy such created me "That misery of yours attains me not, "Nor any flame assails me of this burning.
In the Faust legend, which, in one form or another, the race has made its own, it attains a supreme embodiment.
Art in whatever perfection it attains is but an illustration, imperfect, of the spirit of man.
Baulked of its knowledge of an hour by its ignorance of Eternity, it attains its rest in the Infinite, which seeking it shall find, piercing through every moment of the transient to the Eternal.
It is, however, smaller than its neighbour, and attains a height of only 443 feet, but at a distance the difference in height disappears, and many travellers have thus been led to attribute the same elevation to the two.
So much as this goes almost without saying, for hardly any one attains to professorship in a German university who has not the qualities of scholarship calculated to make him an authority on any topic which he will undertake to treat.
High priest of Amen of Thebes, attains to royal power.
He who leaves the Church of Christ," he says, "attains not to Christ's rewards.
At the ferry of Burri the Niger attains a breadth of eight or nine hundred yards.
With this act the spiritual body politic comes into being, and attainsits unity, its ego, its will.
In philosophy absolute spirit attainsthe highest stage, its perfect self-knowledge.
With the thought that every individual must traverse the same course as that by which the race attains its perfection, Lessing connects the idea of the transmigration of souls.
In right the will or freedom attainsto outer actuality, in morality it attains to inner actuality, in social morality to objective and subjective actuality at once, hence to complete actuality.
It is only through action that the world becomes objective for us, only through interaction with other active intelligences that the ego attains to the consciousness of a real external world, and to the consciousness of its freedom.
It appears first as definite religion in two stadia, natural religion and the religion of spiritual individuality, and finally attains the complete realization of its concept in the absolute religion of Christianity.
There we find love welcomed and pursued, and the beauteous wife elevated like a substantiation of that Krishna-spirit in which man attains on earth to the love which is unending.
As she grows older she is usually taught more, and attains a fair knowledge of Urdu, while, if she shows signs of greater capacity, she will often learn Persian as well.
He naturalizes the Eastern apologue in Spain, and by the laconic picturesqueness of his expression imports a new quality into Spanish prose which attains its full development in the hands of Juan de Valdes and Cervantes.
But at his best Junius attains to a high degree of artificial elegance and vigour.
In short, in a few thousand years he approaches that type of evolution which ordinary humanity attains in the sixth or seventh Round of the Manvantara, i.
And thus our conclusion attains almost certainty, when we remember that it stands the crucial test of experiment--that we need only decompose the blood in order to find there what we contend to be an essential ingredient of it.
Midway between the seas, the country attains a considerable elevation; here the stone wall seeks the highest ridges, but the vallum, forsaking for a while its usual companion, runs along the adjacent valley.
In the region extending northward from Lake Tahoe to Sierra Valley enormous andesitic eruptions took place, and the products of these volcanoes are now piled up as high mountains, among which Mount Pluto nearly attains 9000 feet.
This is precisely what might have been expected; for it is a well established physical property of fresh water, that it attains its maximum density at the above-indicated temperature.
One can have weather to suit his taste, for the waters on this shore are safe in storm, and the barometer and the sky will give full warning long before the weather attains the danger point.
The mullein attains especial dignity in this mountain region.
The geography of beings endowed p 51 with life attains completeness as we see the species, genera, and entire families belonging to one hemisphere, reflected as it were, in analogous animal and vegetable forms in the opposite hemisphere.
Unfortunately, however, these travelers always confound the elevation at which sporadic snow falls with the maximum of the height that the snow-line attains on the Thibetian plateau.
A dense wall of bank of cloud seems to rise gradually higher and higher, until itattains an elevation of 8 or 10 degrees.
This Sierra de Cordoba is an irregular mass of rocky hills, which in some places attainsthe form of mountains.
It thrives in dry climates for in this province where it frequently goes for a stretch of seven months at a time without a rain, it attains its perfection.
This wood which rarely attains a growth of thirty feet is of a deep red color and is used as a dye wood.
It is not yet entirely completed, but that part of it which is, nearly attains a perfection.
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