It is not a pleasure to record the perfidy of man, nor the lack of judgment which prevents him, in his circumscribed lights, from recognizing undoubted geniuses when he sees them.
Their situation, their domestic calamities, and their ignorance, circumscribed the views and politics of the English within the bounds of their own island.
It ought to be circumscribed by the same laws of decorum, and balanced by the same temper, which bound and regulate all the virtues.
The Greek architect reserved certain strictly circumscribed places for sculpture, such as the friezes and pediments of the temples, while in Egypt it spreads itself indiscriminately over every surface.
The indications of the height of the atmosphere drawn from its weight, as shown by the barometer, reduce its elevation within a vastly circumscribed limit.
A corrupt civil service and a futile and decrepit commercial system were through their efforts rendered relatively harmless, becausecircumscribed in their effects.
Soldiers at war had not the opportunity of using their leisure as they wished; they were circumscribed in place and opportunity.
On the banks of the St. Cruz, in certain circumscribed spaces, which were generally bushy and all near the river, the ground was actually white with bones.
But as has been intimated, the benefit that would otherwise accrue from growing alfalfa as a direct means of fertilizing the land is much circumscribed by the long term of years for which it is usually grown.
The varieties best adapted for this purpose in the Northern States and Canada are the medium red and the crimson, the latter being much more circumscribed in the area where it will grow successfully than the former.
It was situated by the edge of the swamp, and consisted of a log cabin, with the most circumscribed of all "clearings" around it.
His use of this powerful economic weapon proved to be circumscribed and of brief duration, but its application against a few carefully selected targets had a salubrious and widespread effect.
Despite his interest in the cause of civil rights, he had, until the open housing campaign, always circumscribed the department's equal opportunity program to fit a more traditional definition of military mission.
The editors had every reason to be wary: integration was seriously circumscribed in the new directive, which actually offered few guarantees of immediate change.
Its ten Sephiroth, being farther removed from the En Soph, are of a more limited and circumscribed potency, though the substances they comprise are of the purest nature and without any admixture of matter.
Fourteenth Century, “Valeur Maxime” British Museum To face page 184] The King and Queen made many progresses through their circumscribed dominions.
So very circumscribed was the knowledge of the clergy, that czar Theodore, brother to Peter the Great, was the first who introduced the custom of singing Psalms in churches.
Liberty has henceforth no other limits than its lines of defence, and is circumscribed for its own security alone.
The past is as much concealed from us as is the future; we are circumscribed by two dense clouds, in the forgetfulness of what was, and in the uncertainty of what shall be.
Whether America itself has its special local circumscribedcentres of distribution or not, remains to be seen.
It ought to be remarked, that these species come from two or three very circumscribed localities which, in the present time, probably would not furnish, in a circuit of many leagues, more than three or four species of these genera.
I ask, again, why the erratics are circumscribed within the northern limits of the temperate zone, if their transportation is owing to the action of water currents?
The former point of view deals with freedom in teaching only in as far as regulated or circumscribed by ethical principles, by the moral principles of conscience, without regard to state-laws or other positive rules.
Only after we have clearly circumscribed this demand can we approach its philosophical presumptions and test its basis.
We have thus circumscribed the word poetry within the limits of that art which is the most familiar and the most perfect expression of the faculty itself.
Round this are circumscribed the celestial spheres.
As travels extended and geography began to be a science, it was remarked that an immense area of water circumscribed the solid earth by irregular boundaries--whence the idea of a universal ocean.
This made it necessary that the States should have very circumscribed borders, as otherwise it would have been impossible to govern them at all.
Also, as though this were not enough, Henry declared all nobles within the circumscribed area left to the city, to be exempted from its jurisdiction, even including those who had legally and officially made submission to it.
The common cognomen of this world among the misguided and superstitious is "a vale of tears," from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary interposition of God and taken to Heaven--What a little circumscribed straightened notion!
