Our lives are a congeries of solipsisms, out of which in strict logic only a God could compose a universe even of discourse.
For to be satisfied, my intellect must understand, and it can not understand by taking a congeries in the lump.
In fact, the small uji (ko-uji) may be described as a congeries of from fifty to ninety blood relations.
If he uses tribe as a congeries of family groups, which is a tribe composed of gentes, then "exogamy" cannot be asserted of the tribe.
But Mr. McLennan could not have used tribe here as equivalent to gens, nor as a congeries of family groups.
Tribe a congeries of family groups, falling into divisions, clans, thums, etc.
For to be satisfied, my intellect must understand, and it cannot understand by taking a congeries in the lump' (p.
She was like every one else, a congeries of contradictions and inconsistencies, but obedient to the general expectation of what a girl of her position must and must not finally be.
March, with great amusement at Fulkerson's access; "you call that congeries of advertising instinct of yours the human mind at its best?
They were a loosely-knit congeries of tribes without any single leader or central authority; some say they merely possessed the instinct of anarchy, others that they were permeated with the ideals of democracy.
The peoples of the Arab part of the Ottoman Empire are a congeries of differing races, creeds, sects, and social systems, with no common bond except language.
Comets cannot be homes of life; they are not sufficiently condensed; indeed, they are probably but loose congeries of small stones.
There were no well established native states but rather a congeries of small groups something like clans.
Turf or peat, obtained from morasses, consists of a multitude or congeries of vegetable fibres, partly in a decomposed state, and is frequently so inflammable as to inflame by a spark.
The consequence of this theory, rigidly carried out, created a descending congeries of hells, reaching from centre to nadir, in correspondence to an ascending congeries of heavens, reaching from centre to zenith.
A recent able author speaks of "that congeries of organs whose union forms the brain and whose action constitutes the mind.
Greece becomes a congeries of city-states, each with its own citizen-militia.
In the earlier days of field artillery, the artillery train was a miscellaneous congeries of pontoon, supply, baggage and tool wagons, heavy ordnance and light guns in carts.
It consists rather of a congeries of jumbled mountain-ranges of no great elevations, but of infinite ramification, and lacking (save at two points only) those bolder features that most appeal to the eye.
If different and widely separated portions are sufficiently wakeful to suggest ideas to the mind, the resulting congeries will consist of discordant and incoherent elements.
In like manner there seems to be no good reason why that spiritual force or congeries of forces which constitutes the mind of man may not experience analogous transformations in successive periods of action and of repose.
Yet occasionally he uses language which looks like an anticipation of David Hume, as when he calls mind "a congeries of perceptions.
This is an advance upon the language of the Commonplace Book, in which "mind" is spoken of as only a "congeries of perceptions.
In this form the kidneys, greatly enlarged, consist of a congeries of cysts separated by the remains of renal tissue.
The town is an irregular congeries of flat mud-roofed houses.
Others seem to consist of shorter tubes, as that great congeries of glands, which constitute the liver, and those of the kidneys.
The softer varieties, gently grated or kneaded down in water, or the harder varieties cut in thin slices, show a congeries of microscopic chambered shells belonging to the humble and simple group of Protozoa.
The Bee-hive, or Nebula of Cancer, as it is called, is one of the finest objects of this kind for a small telescope, being by its aid converted into a rich congeries of shining points.
Inside the congeries of glazed houses he was somewhat at sea.
The allusion to the brother-in-law in Kent had escaped his notice, so intent was he upon a new congeries of projects taking vague shape in his mind.
Thus the resultant social system would be a congeries of beliefs and usages, and in such a system, when it appears, the totemic element must be distinguished from its attachments, which must be referred each to its appropriate source.
It is now a great congeries of lanes, streets, roads, and alleys, dirty and otherwise.
