The Arian tribes of the table-land of Iran have preserved the original character of their family more truly than their kinsmen who settled on the Indus and the Ganges, and filled the Deccan with their civilization.
The grounds for the clemency and moderation by which he was guided, we must seek not only in the religious views of Iran, but to a still greater degree in his character and his political conceptions.
But I have no doubt, from the fact that the general character of this valley is the same from here to Syracuse, that we have a fine quality of solution.
It appeared also that the character of the road was changing.
Yes, there was some noise quite a way in front, but at first its charactercould not be distinguished.
These tablets vary in size and shape and the character of their writing, being inscribed "both in pictographic and linear forms of the Minoan script.
The style and character of the handwriting is of great practical importance to literary criticism and has large historical value.
As the compound personality of Christ was conditioned by the flesh, so the compound character of a written revelation is conditioned by the nature of language.
The system at first was without a zero: that character was added probably in the seventh century.
These travesties upon devout characterand mere abnormalities of religious devotion were not true products of Christian sentiment and ideals but glaring manifestations of morbid self-assertion.
The decimal character was used to give positional or place value to the nine digits,--the cipher having no value except in combination with the digits; it thus completed the system of notation.
The cumbrous character of these large volumes was the basis for the dictum of the Alexandrian grammarian, "A big book is a big nuisance.
The all but indestructible character of this material accounts for the large proportion of the Assyrian literature which has been preserved through tens of centuries.
Perhaps the very earliest extensive depository of written documents of any character which have survived for millenniums of years was at ancient Nippur, in the region of Babylon and between the Euphrates and the Tigris.
The thief was some tramp or traveling character who got into the schoolhouse by stealth.
He lacked Nelson Haley's solid character and thoughtfulness; but he always had a fund of enthusiasm on tap.
But whether Hopewell Drugg is finally injured in character by Lem Parraday's bar or not, enough other people are being injured.
Briefly, Umkulunkulu's character seems to vary from the idea of an ancestral spirit, or the spirit of an ancestor, to that of a god.
As an offset to the admission that the tavern has outlived its usefulness, we ought in justice to establish its actual character and standing as it was in the past.
As further fixing the topographical character of taverns, it may be stated that in the old almanacs distances are always computed between the inns, instead of from town to town, as the practice now is.
But artists ought to keep in mind the opinion, or rather prophecy of Bonarruoti--that his style would be productive of inept artists, which has invariably been the character of those who have imitated him without judgment.
We wish him leisure to produce more such works as this, which, like those of Manuzi, at once combine the character of the elegant typographer and the erudite scholar.
That a work upon such a scale was a great desideratum, no less to Italy than to the general world of art, would appear evident from the character of the various histories and accounts of painting which had preceded it.
He enters largely into the origin and character of the Etruscan School, and examines very fully the criticisms, both on ancient and Italian art, by Winckelmann and Mengs.
Deficient in this talent, Andrea is said to have been modest, elegant, and endued with sensibility; and it appears that he impressed this character on nature wherever he employed his pencil.
Peter, at Genoa, which was but a miserable performance; a single production, however, is not sufficient to decide the character of an artist.
Intent on amusing his reader with the character of the man, he has not perhaps sufficiently rated the merits of the artist.
I might observe that there are two threads, as it were, which may serve as a clue to this labyrinth, until we may somewhere or by some means ascertain the actual date; and these two are the character and the design.
There is nothing so flattering to the vanity of an author, as defending the character of his native place, and of those citizens who have rendered her illustrious.
Mr. Brand inquires after her character and behaviour of Mrs. Smith.
Then was the personal character of the lady, as well as her more extraordinary talents and endowments again expatiated upon: and Miss Patty, who had once seen her, launched out more than all the rest in her praise.
Let any one, who knows my story, collect his character from his behaviour to me before that outrage; and then judge whether it was in the least probable that such a man should make me happy.
A good deal of heaviness and concern hung upon his countenance: but he received me with more respect than he did yesterday; which, I presume, was owing to the lady's favourable character of me.
It becomes the character we all bear, to disclaim your actions by her.
It would be an unpardonable fault, and very ill become the character I would be glad to deserve, or the temper of mind I wish my friends hereafter to think me mistress of, if I did not.
The lady's case desperate with her friends too; and likely to be so, while single, and her character exposed to censure.
Describes her lodgings, and gives a characterof the people, and of the good widow Lovick.
This, however, will rarely happen; but it may sometimes be your duty to caution others against being ensnared by one whose character you know to be bad.
Some of the traits of character here presented may not be certain evidence of piety; while, in other cases, a person may be a Christian while possessing the graces mentioned in a much less degree than they are here represented.
There is scarcely any trait of character more unlovely, especially in a young person, than self-conceit.
What trait of character can be more amiable and lovely?
The effects of this disposition upon human characterand happiness are strikingly illustrated in the story of Haman, which I commend to your serious attention.
The infidel would pronounce this inconsistent with the character of a God of infinite benevolence.
Mr Stuart knew well the character of the man with whom he had to do, and spoke thus with design.
Not long after doubling the Cape, the bottle sailed slowly past the Falkland Islands, whose rugged cliffs and sterile aspect seemed in accordance with their character of penal settlement.
Much of the violence of the good woman's character was the result of training and example on an impulsive and sanguine, yet kindly spirit.
In such a case the new ethical reflexion may have a disintegrating effect upon the traditional code, and give to the movement the character and importance of a revolution.
One of the most valuable portions of Green's own work is his description of the gradual widening and purifying of human conceptions regarding goodness in character and conduct.
And, had I been speaking twenty years ago, I should have had to emphasise the ethical character of the metaphysics of the day.
Differences in the character of the work performed by any large group of wage earners as a reason.
The steady trend to standardization in production and to simplification of the machine processes has lessened somewhat the difference between the character of the work of the upper and lower grades of labor.
It is plain that if the measure is of such a character that no great harm can result from the possible error involved in the process of calculation, it can be adopted with less hesitation than if the opposite were the case.
The third case is that in which the decline in prices is abrupt--at the beginning at all events--and is precipitated by much forced liquidation of a character disastrous to the enterprises forced to undertake it.
Simultaneously with the revolution in industrial structure and interacting with it in many ways, there has occurred a great change in the composition and character of the wage-earning body.
In circumstances where the constant differences between the character of the work performed by workers is relatively great, it will usually be found that they are distinguished into different groups.
Thirdly, the price decline may be caused--at the beginning at all events--by much forced liquidation of a character that is disastrous to the enterprises compelled to liquidate.
The exceptions or variations admitted on these grounds would vary greatly in character and extent no doubt.
One passage of explanation in it is as follows: "On the other hand, a permanent court of a judicial character tends to reduce conditions to system, to standardize them, to prevent irritating contrasts.
The direct results are somewhat of the opposite character to those just related for a period of rising prices.
As to the belief that the extension would be destructive of the spirit or character of the male wage earners concerned, there is little or no factual support for that view, and much to refute it.
History has turned a far more careful eye to the blemishes in a strange character than to the virtues that must have been present by their side.
But the world, which demands from all poor men a definite expression of their rights to live, was far too strong for him, nor could any of the chances that came his way, and they were many, give to his strange character the strength it needed.
XXIV Except when his business instincts were on the alert, Ford's slowness of perception was perhaps most apparent in his judgment of character and his analysis of other people's motives.
The only certificate of character I can offer is one from him.
In fact, I could have valued any picture of the life and character I knew only as it put me in mind of life and character as these had shown themselves to me in his books.
The life and character I have found portrayed there have appealed always to the consciousness of right and wrong implanted in me; and from no one has this appeal been stronger than from George Eliot.
All the while that he held me so fast by his potent charm I was aware that it was a very rough magic now and again, but I could not assert my sense of this against him in matters of character and structure.
I spoke it even to the quaint character whom I borrowed his books from, and who might almost have come out of his books.
I learned from Tolstoy to try character and motive by no other test, and though I am perpetually false to that sublime ideal myself, still the ideal remains with me, to make me ashamed that I am not true to it.
But the character of Karenin himself is quite as important as the intrigue of Anna and Vronsky.
Perhaps if they were more humorous they would not be so true to the British life and character present in them in the whole length and breadth of its expansive commonplaceness.
You say that if this divorce took place, Bridget's reputation would not suffer, and that she could marry again without a stain upon her character as they say of wrongfully accused prisoners who are discharged.
It struck Bridget that Eliza Countess and Colin McKeith had points of character in common--it was true they both came from Glasgow.
If he has any peculiar manner of walking or of talking and persists in carrying that into whatever character he is interpreting, we always see the actor himself, instead of the character which he is portraying.
Mesty, whose character is not yet developed, immediately took a fondness for our hero, and in a hundred ways showed his attachment.
The success of any young man in a profession very much depends upon the occurrences at the commencement of his career, as from those is his character judged, and he is treated accordingly.
If we would point out an error, we draw a character, and although that character appears to weave naturally into the tale of fiction, it becomes as much a beacon, as is a vehicle of amusement.
Now it is this inherent and unchangeable character itself that tends to be transmitted to offspring, and this being the case, there can be no progressive improvement in character without some selective agency tending to such improvement.
There was a character of greater intensity in all she did than is usual in early youth.
All that we know of her history is uninteresting, except to those who love to dwell upon the pruriencies of a degraded state of society: all that we know of her character is disgusting to such as love purity and dignity of mind.
The German Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Herr von Jagow, on the other hand, was unable or unwilling to understand the proposal, and Sir Edward Goschen seems to have been unable to impress its real character upon the Government of Berlin.
Count Forgach, the other Under-Secretary of State, had indeed been good enough to confide to me on the same day the true character of the note, and the fact of its presentation about the time we were speaking.
The negative result is the repudiation of any idea of the final character of international obligation; the other is the praise of the glory of war.
But in their White Book, in order to blacken the character of Russia, the Germans remark that they 'were perfectly aware that a possible warlike attitude of Austria-Hungary against Servia might bring Russia into the field'.
Both were therefore in conflict with the purely defensivecharacter of the Triple Alliance; in such circumstances Italy would remain neutral.
They are children in everything that matters, and when we have led them to Christ we are apt to forget how much more they need in order to make a strong, upright, ethical character on which to build a nation.
The beauty of her character showed itself in her face, and I have rarely seen one which showed so plainly that the love of God dwelt within.
Her faith devotion led her into strange situations, and these shaped the character of her outward life and habits.
Her earlier observations of the character of the African women were confirmed by her sojourn in the harem.
She never grew commonplace, and was original as ever, but her character was mellowing, and her love and humility becoming even more marked.
They enlarged on the savage character of those concerned.
Her letters at this time bear witness to the strenuous character of the life she led.
Her personality, and the accounts given of her character and work, made such an impression on the officials that they reported favourably to the Board, and she was accepted as a teacher for Calabar and told to continue her studies in Dundee.
There is nothing small or trivial," she once said, "for God is ready to take every act and motive and work through them to the formation of character and the development of holy and useful lives that will convey grace to the world.
She was her own commentator, and on the margin she noted the truths she had learned, the lessons she had received, her opinions about the sentiment expressed, or the character described.
She divined what he thought, and speaking out of her intimate knowledge of the people and their ways she said, "There's going to be trouble; no death of a violent character comes apart from witchcraft.
But knowing their character she asked Mr. Bishop to collect some of the slaves who had been left to watch the farms, and send them after her as carriers, and then, bootless and hatless, she plunged back into the forest.
Westerfelt would have been more generous in his estimation of her character had he been less jealous, and less angered by the disappointment of not being her escort.
The openness and generosity of his character was clearly visible on his face.
Mounted on a palfrey, Tetrik rode to the left of the Mother of the Camps; at her right rode a druid bard named Rolla, whom she greatly esteemed for his bravery, his noble characterand his poetic talents.
The question next presented itself as to the character of the luminous bodies beyond the solar system.
A few, however, are distinguished among the noble army by the phenomenal character of their work.
True, this planet had been seen on twenty different occasions, by other observers; but its character had not been revealed.
Those very forms of illumination which are now regarded as crude in character and odious in use were only a generation ago hailed with delight because of their superiority to the former agents of illumination.
In so doing, he was favored greatly by hischaracter and antecedents.
The possibility of discovering the visible character of invisible things, and even of seeing directly through opaque materials into parts where neither light nor electricity can penetrate, was fully shown.
Under favorable circumstances the observer will be able to note the characteristics of the lunar landscape with more distinctness than a good natural eye can discern the outlines and character of the summit of Pike's Peak from Denver.
Its autocraticcharacter has been steadfastly maintained.
And truly the condition of the world and of society was of a character to force such a conviction on the minds of intelligent men.
It would be beyond the scope of an article of this character to attempt to recall the names of the eminent preachers of the century.
