In fact it is only when combined with periods of high eccentricity of the earth's orbit, according to Croll's theory, that precession can pretend to have any claim to be an important factor in the production of glacial periods.
The first event which can advance any claim to be considered as historical, is that of the migration of Terah from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran, and the further migration of his son Abraham from Haran to Palestine.
While the author's point of view has been that of a bird-lover, some things herein recorded may seem inconsistent with the claim of that title.
Pipits are boreal breeders; but inasmuch as our own superb Alps claim kinship with the Arctic, there is no more favorable spot to study the nesting of the Pipits than upon the Cascades of northern Washington.
They will spend a week in laborious excavation, and then abandon the claim for no apparent reason.
The United States, whatever claim or pretense may have existed heretofore, are now, at least, entitled to claim and concede an entire and friendly equality of rights and hospitalities with all maritime nations.
The long-deferred Aves Island claim has been satisfactorily paid and discharged.
The claim arising from the seizure of the cargo of the brig Macedonian in 1821 has been paid in full by the Government of Chile.
It might be advisable to fix a limit beyond which no citizen of the United States residing abroad may claim the interposition of his government.
We cannot have free government without elections; and if the election could force us to forego or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
The genius of rebellion will no moreclaim Maryland.
But we can see the past, though we may not claim to have directed it; and seeing it, in this case, we feel more hopeful and confident for the future.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
I ask your attention to the claim of the minister residing there for the damages he sustained in the destruction by fire of the residence of the legation at Yedo.
All crowds in one way or another claim infallibility.
The complex of ideas in which the crowd-mind as we have seen takes refuge, being necessarily made up of abstract generalizations, serves the crowd-will to social dominance through the very claim to universality which such ideas exert.
It is, perhaps, the one plant which may claim the largest number of intimate acquaintances.
He had also others, who from their intercourse with more modern artists, claim place in a better epoch; and for such we shall reserve them.
But his best claim to distinction is founded on his portraits, which are more highly prized in cabinets than are his compositions in the churches.
A copyist like this painter has a better claim to our regard than many masters, whose original designs serve only to remind us of our ill fortune in meeting with them.
We shall review the whole series, which, commencing at this period, and continuing to the following epoch, gives him a claim to a primary station among the masters of Italy.
Piedmont, like the other states of Italy, cannot boast of a series of ancient masters; but it does not on that account forfeit its claim to a place in the history of painting.
But the stratified plagioclase rocks seem to have as strong a claim to recognition as gneiss.
Many high authorities hold that true felsites are found only among the eruptive rocks; while others claim that they are in part, or wholly, of sedimentary origin.
With the last ten pounds of it, I bought the half of a small claim at Snowy Creek.
There was no claim so rich as my mate's and mine at Snowy Creek, and it did not yield that sum.
As little will I for the future set up any claim to the succession: to the truth of which I solemnly swear, taking God to be my witness; and in testimony thereof I write and sign these presents.
The king of Prussia, as heir to the dukes of Pomerania, laid claim to a part of that province.
The Swedes shared in the spoils on the coast of Finland, and laid claimto the crown.
Nothing is more common at Paris, than to bestow, without reserve, the title of count and marquis, whether a person has any claim to it or not, or even if he is barely a gentleman.
Peter revived the ancient pretensions of the czars to Livonia, Ingria, Carelia, and part of Finland; Denmark laid claim to Scania, and the king of Prussia to Pomerania.
And though it was naturally committed to the keeping of the Norman earls of Chester, and under weak kings may have been regarded by the earls as their own property, no such claim was allowed under a strong ruler.
But the facts which have been now adduced, tracing back the first known mottes to the time of Thibault-le-Tricheur, and the county of Blois, show that the Norman claim to the invention of this mode of fortification must be given up.
The writer does not claim to have originated this theory.
It should be noted that the Brut does not claim the battle of Crogen as a Welsh victory.
The British Government did not advance a crude claim to impress American seamen.
The particularclaim cited was not directly indorsed; but as its mention was unnecessary to the matter immediately in hand, we may safely regard its retention as indicative of the ideal of the Secretary, and of the President, Mr. Madison.
If we are contending for the support of a claim to exempt British seamen from their allegiance to their own country, is it not time to inquire whether our claim is just?
The British claim to search, with the object of impressing British subjects, was considered by these men to be valid.
To divert national activities from natural channels into artificial may be inexpedient and wasteful; and it may be reasonable to claim that ends so achieved are not really successes, but failures.
He remembered the promise of the Lord, that through faith his life should be spared, and felt to hold on to it and claim a blessing at the hands of the Almighty.
On arriving in Nauvoo I found that Sidney Rigdon was striving to establish his claim to the leadership of the Church, and proffering various unheard-of offices to such persons as would rally around his standard.
Besides, he was awaiting the issue of his cause respecting the Ribaumont property in Picardy, to which the Count de Poligny set up a claim in right of a grant by King Henry III.
Spain relinquishes all claimof sovereignty over and title to Cuba.
Notes were exchanged between the Cabinets of Madrid and London, and Spain relinquished for ever her claim to the Borneo fief of Brunei.
He refused to do either, supporting the claim of immunity of sanctuary.
The Macui claim to be the most ancient, although no tribe can trace descent farther back than the 13th century.
In 1904 they entered a claim on the novel plea that, as many churches had been subscribed to or partially erected at their expense before they seceded from the Catholic Church, they were entitled to a restitution of their donations.
Indeed, the native forces were only too anxious to co-operate with the American troops, or at least, to have the semblance of doing so, in order to justify their claim to enter the beleaguered city as allies of the invaders.
They declare themselves competent to undertake the cure of souls, and claim the fulfilment of the Council of Trent decrees which prohibit the regular clergy to hold benefices, except on two conditions, viz.
Spain will relinquish all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba.
Intermarriage has destroyed traces, but there are over a hundred sultans whoclaim to be of royal blood.
The Irreconcilables claim real sovereign independence for the Filipinos; they would wish the Americans to abandon the Islands as completely as if they had never occupied them at all.
The playgoer who never saw Charles Fisher as Triplet can scarcely claim that he ever saw the part at all.
Mr. Rigdon based his claim to the presidency on the fact that he had been the first counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith, and therefore by right should be the "guardian" of the Church.
Mr. Strang's claimto the presidency was based on his statement that the Prophet had appointed him as his successor by letter, a few days before the martyrdom.
His claim was in conflict with the position of the Church and the teachings of the Prophet.
Penrose's Blood Atonement, which was published in answer to such wicked misrepresentations as I claim you have made in relation to this principle and our belief in relation thereto.
In 1852 he rejected the claim of Mr. Strang and joined with Mr. Jason W.
Esther had never before felt herself so helpless as in the face of this outer darkness, and if her lover had now been there to claim her, she would have dropped into his arms as unresistingly as a tired child.
The fact of self-consciousness would not have struck them as warranting a claim even to a good social position, much less to a share in omnipotence; they knew the trait only as a sign of bad manners.
He belonged not to her but to the world; a thousand people had rights of property in him, soul and body, and called their claim religion.
My correspondent tries to explain the situation a little by pointing out that your women in America claim to be the superiors of your men, to be more intellectual, better-mannered, more refined.
Yet who could truthfully charge her with having obtained her divorce in order thereby to claim any fresh licence for herself?
There is just one quality which I claim to have in an even greater degree than my prototype.
It is the claim of history, for example, that compels me to write my autobiography.
But I admired your spirit and thought your manners, of which I can claim to be a good judge, had the correct cashy, though with rather too much tendency to back-chat.
Jasmine; "I canclaim no relationship with your lady, nor have I the honour of her acquaintance.
Now I shall be obliged to confess the truth, and he will have a right to claim me instead of my supposed sister.
Though not without fame in the field, Colonel Wen's main claim to honour lay in the high degrees he had taken in the examinations.
Even boys in their teens will claim huge families.
The Germans claim to have captured guns at or near this place.
Never before had Power heard so modest a claimon the benevolence of the Almighty.
I am so deeply beholden to your friendship that I claim the privilege of saying that you are talking nonsense," he said.
I write in the hope that you may possibly possess some of the generosity which you have several times denied that I can lay claim to.
Even if Joan had not the immense claim on him that she had, he believed he would do exactly what he was doing now.
Your father was my very dear friend; his daughter has a strong claim on me, so pack your things, my dear, and come to me at once.
There's always a richer claim somewhere that you haven't found.
If you had wanted me greatly, you would have pressed theclaim you had in saving Mopsy, and I should have forgiven you that; you would have urged any and every claim.
I've an idea that they have a stronger claimon me; but that's not a point I can urge.
One feels that there's a rich claim waiting beyond the thick timber through which one can hardly scramble, across the icy rivers, or over the snow-line.
No," objected Carrol; "I can't claim any credit for doing so.
