Its direct and specific purpose is not the abolition of slavery, or the relief of pauperism, or the extension of commerce and civilization, or the enlargement of science, or the conversion of the heathen.
The slave laws of the South tell us that it is the conversion of men into articles of property; the transformation of sentient immortal beings into "chattels personal.
My neighbors," he says, "were amazed at my great conversionfrom prodigious profaneness to something like a moral life and sober man.
This conversion was a spark thrown into a powder magazine, and was followed by a fearful explosion.
During breakfast, Wilson related the difficulties he had encountered in the conversion of the Tahaitians.
Since that time, Cook and his companions, particularly the two Forsters, father and son, have given us considerable information concerning the condition of the Tahaitians before their conversion to the Christian faith.
Certainly, if Lacordaire's theory were sound, he had nothing to be afraid of, since the magic touch of conversion is not to be consummated in a moment.
He never felt the need of mortification and of prayer, without which no conversion in possible, if one is to believe the majority of priests.
The conversion of the vegetation of the carboniferous ages into coal was accompanied by a gradual loss of hydrogen and a consequent increase in the percentage of carbon.
If these solutions are allowed to stand for a time in contact with air, they slowly turn sour by the gradual conversion of the alcohol into acetic acid.
Lignite is organic matter in the earlier stages of its conversion into coal, and includes all varieties which are intermediate between peat and coal of the older formation.
The time required for the conversion of water into steam is diminished and the steam capacity of the boiler thereby increased.
Peat is organic matter in the first stages of its conversion into coal and is found in bogs and similar places.
Its conversion into the pound then, will be by a multiplication by 5, and a division by 24.
The simplicity of the fraction, and of course the facility of conversion and reconversion, is therefore against this Unit, and in favor of the dollar, in every instance.
It is the case, lastly, with the conversion of the two anterior pairs of limbs into antennae.
The collar is composed of gold and blue enamel figures of the conversion linked by the Gothic monogram I.
The central medallion represents the conversion of St Hubert.
Every one knows the legend of her life, and the conversion of her husband and his brother, brought about by her prayers, as also by the miracles she obtained for their further confirmation in the faith.
But, although we may allow that a High-churchman is logically nearer to a Catholic than is a Presbyterian, there are plenty of cases of the conversion of those who were brought up in the other Protestant churches.
Preston, which have done so much good in the instruction of the faithful and the conversion of numbers of persons to the true faith.
The mother-country owed her conversion to missionaries from Ireland, and she, in turn, sent out devoted priests, who converted her colonists in Greenland and Vinland to the faith.
But when the empire became Christian, and especially when Christendom was reconstituted by the conversion of the barbarian nations that succeeded to the empire, the position and duties of Catholics or Christians in some respects changed.
The divine potency that is wholly in everything does not offer nor withdraw itself except through theconversion of the other, its object, to it, or aversion from it.
In the contrary direction it descends through conversion to the sensible world, by way of intellect, reason, imagination, sense, and the vegetative faculty.
Reason, however, apprehends the more truly beautiful by conversion to that which makes beauty in body, the source of the beauty, and that is the soul, which has so moulded and formed it.
The most famous of the writers of these Laudi in the thirteenth century was Jacopone da Todi, the story of whose conversion is extremely touching.
It is with Roger's conversion to Christianity and his marriage that the poem ends.
Draper regards the conversion of Constantine from the point of view taken above.
As the lower ranks of society are governed by imitation, the conversion of those who possessed any eminence of birth, of power, or of riches, was soon followed by dependent multitudes.
Russians adopted Christianity without compulsion or violence, all we can say is, that their conversion is unique.
A narrative of the life of John Marrant, of New York, in North America: giving an account of his conversion when only fourteen years of age: his leaving his mother's house from religious motives .
The organisms probably aid in the decomposition of the mineral matter, and in the conversion of nitrogen, which abounds in the air or the soil, into nitrates of potash and soda--substances which have a very great value as fertilizers.
But all these actions result in the conversion of energy of position into heat, and so far serve to raise the temperature of the rocks which are concerned in the movements.
As no reason is assigned for this conversion of physical good into physical evil, the supposition does not diminish the difficulty.
For my Lord Stephen was a papist, though the conversion had not come till his maturer years, and whether it had been a question of conscience or of statecraft none but a Jesuit could have explained.
We have founded a mission, my lord, for the conversion of unkissed females.
The Technology of Spinning or the Conversion of Textile Raw Materials into Yarn.
Perhaps there are few events in history more impressive than the conversion of the wild and ignorant Arab tribes of the seventh century from stone-worship to monotheism.
In the following list, where a conversion from metres into feet has been necessary, the nearest multiple of 5 ft.
Its place in the conversion of northern England was taken by missionaries from Ireland.
But from the moment of his conversion the new faith advanced rapidly and the Kentish men crowded to baptism in the train of their king.
Christianity had by this time brought about the conversion of the Roman Empire, but it had not penetrated as yet among the forests of the north.
It was not the Church of Paulinus which nerved Oswald to this struggle for the Cross, or which carried out in Bernicia the work of conversion which his victory began.
His power was bent to carry forward the conversion of all England, but prisoned as it was to the central districts of the country heathendom fought desperately for life.
While the vigour of Christianity in Italy and Gaul and Spain was exhausted in a bare struggle for life, Ireland, which remained unscourged by invaders, drew from its conversion an energy such as it has never known since.
The first missionaries to the Englishmen, strangers in a heathen land, attached themselves necessarily to the courts of the kings, who were their earliest converts, and whose conversion was generally followed by that of their people.
He knows this is derived from the divine agency; and hence he concludes, that the whole work of conversion is due to God, and no part of it is performed by himself.
It will be of interest to ascertain in more detail what effect the process of freezing has upon the number of bacteria present in the water--what is the degree of bacterial purification effected during the conversion of water into ice.
