In comparing the two sets, the eye alone was never trusted.
Hitherto each generation has been considered as a separate case, of which there are eighty-three; and this no doubt is the more correct method of comparing the crossed and self-fertilised plants.
The objects of the governments are different, but their forms are the same; and in this special point of view there is some advantage in comparing them together.
This, however, is not the last of the difficulties which prevent us from comparing the expenditure of the Union with that of France.
I am no longer comparing the Anglo-American states to foreign nations; but I am contrasting them with each other, and endeavoring to discover why they are so unlike.
It is by examining what actually takes place in the Union, and not by comparing the Union with France, that we may discover whether the American government is really economical.
This difference is perceptible not only incomparing the north with the south, but in comparing the several southern states.
It is a running criticism on the Roman Law, comparing it with right reason and justice.
The best order of studying the Baconian philosophy would be to read attentively the Advancement of Learning; next, to take the treatise De Augmentis, comparing it all along with the former, and afterwards to proceed to the Novum Organum.
Reducing dry air to the pressure of the acetic ether here employed, and comparing them then together, the quantity of wave-motion intercepted by the ether would be many thousand times that intercepted by the air.
Comparing the three lines together, it will be observed that the velocity diminishes as we descend the glacier.
Comparing with ordinary gravity the force with which oxygen and carbon unite together, chemical affinity seems almost infinite.
If, instead of comparing the width of the fissures with the length of the lines of tension, we compared their areas with the area of the unfissured land, we should of course find the proportion much less.
Comparing this brief history with that of the Copley Medalist of 1870, the differentiating influence of 'environment,' on two minds of similar natural cast and endowment, comes out in an instructive manner.
Comparing a single molecule of aqueous vapour with an atom of either of the main constituents of our atmosphere, I am not prepared to say how many thousand times the action of the former exceeds that of the latter.
But, what was stranger still, on comparing notes they found that the total gathered in every allotment was almost the same.
It was noticed that De Fortibus spent much time in examining this crescent and comparing it with the cross borne by the Crusaders on their own banners.
Meantime, however, he could overhear the remarks of various individuals, who were comparing the features of the hero with the face on the distant mountain-side.
Comparing modern oars with these, we find that the longest oars used in the British navy are 18 feet.
Another scanned the faces of the frightened tailors, as if comparing them with certain revolutionary visages in his mind.
An idea of the matter omitted may be gained by comparing Xiphilinus (p.
Again--a man, by comparing passages of scripture with other passages, and by considering the use and acceptation of words in these, may arrive at a knowledge of their literal meaning.
Comparing the mysteries of Nature with the laws of mathematics, he dared to hope that the secrets of both could be unlocked with the same key.
The beautiful lines comparing a girl's eyes to bottom agates that seem to "Wave and float In crystal currents of clear running seas," he invented while bathing in Wales.
I went to a large one some years ago, in Manchester, and, on comparing it with those of my young days, I could hardly believe it was a fair.
We may see the difference between progressive {123} sanctification and perfected sanctification, or glorification, by comparingfamiliar texts.
I was not absolutely ill-fed at my master's, and temperance was only painful to me bycomparing it with the luxury he enjoyed.
The fertilizing value of peat is best understood by comparing it with some standard manure.
This, being variable, should be deducted, and the ash-free coal be considered in comparing fuels.
In one of the pumping houses of the Nassau Water Department of the City of Brooklyn, an experiment has been made for the purpose of comparing peat with anthracite, for the results of which I am indebted to the courtesy of Moses Lane, Esq.
The density of peat-fuel may be ascertained by cutting out a block that will admit of accurate measurement, calculating its cubic contents, and comparing its weight with that of an equal bulk of water.
And besides, on comparing the lands east and west of the Teri-nam-tso, I considered the latter far better worth visiting.
But what, you may ask, is meant when, comparing certain words with one another, we affirm of them that they are synonyms?
Nothing pleased the simple-hearted varlet more than my comparing him to the renowned Sancho for devotion to the trencher; and he called himself by no other name throughout the journey.
Indicate on your own map the five provinces, comparing the best maps at hand to find their boundary lines.
By comparing the four accounts we find that there was first an examination before the high priest and such of the council as could be gathered (Mark 14.
Have you had many opportunities of comparing us--in this sort of work?
But not a soul thought of comparing the "bloody-minded Simmons" to the squawking, gaping schoolgirl with which this story opens.
No man will ever know the exact truth of this story; though women may sometimes whisper it to one another after a dance, when they are putting up their hair for the night andcomparing lists of victims.
Comparing his repeated mischances with the ante-nuptial warnings of his neighbors, he at last came to the melancholy conclusion that his wife was a witch.
I can scarcely give you an adequate idea of my situation in these dreams, without comparing it with that of the ancient Egyptians while suffering under the plague of darkness.
And, I should say, I have come to this opinion mainly by comparing this psalm with the writings of heathens, even the wisest and the best of them.
Therefore he is always comparing himself with those below himself; always watching those things in them in which he thinks them worse, meaner than himself; he is always looking down on his neighbours.
