Cursorily examined, the Shan Hai King is a farrago of falsehood; read with intelligence, it is a mine of historical wealth.
In viewing cursorily the statuary of the ancient Egyptians, the investigator is first struck with the colossal proportions adopted by their sculptors.
Having cursorily examined these, the visitor should at once turn to the fragment of a bas-relief, marked 41, which properly belongs to the Elgin collection.
However cursorily we have touched upon art as it developed in the Western hemisphere, the reader must be impressed by two facts.
Having thus cursorily brought out some special points observable on both "Cross Tablets," let us now glance at the tablet in the "Temple of the Sun.
There are many who claim our attention, and whose influence over public affairs and the minds of men was not less than that exercised by the royal matrons and maidens we have cursorily named.
Whilst Seraphin converses with the beautiful young lady, Carl Greifmann cursorily examines a newspaper which a servant has just brought him on a silver salver.
Presently, when the contents of our camels' packs had beencursorily inspected, I was tied to a mule, and dragged on over the desert in the direction of the rising sun.
And then I noted very cursorily the wound in the head and it was obvious that this was an extremely serious wound.
Carrico in regard to the neck wound, I glanced cursorily at the head wound and noted its severe character, and then proceeded with the tracheotomy after donning a pair of gloves.
That part of Lake Huron was cursorily examined by me, in the year 1820, in the course of the expedition conducted by Gov.
Mr Kohl's volume adverts cursorily to the many institutions still existing in Denmark, which owe their origin to the days of Roman Catholicism, and have been formed upon the model of Catholic establishments.
In fact, they are now only cursorily read, for historical purposes, by those who are under the delusion that philosophy has advanced, not to say begun, since Kant.
When produced, they all held council together, and fixing cursorily upon several persons, they summoned them to appear before them.
If anyone does allude to the reason why you've shifted your quarters, you can simply explain cursorily that I've brought you in as a companion, and then drop the subject.
The distant light which Eustacia had cursorily observed in leaving the house came, as she had divined, from the cottage window of Susan Nunsuch.
And if one dips even cursorily into the writings of the ethical teachers of Japan in the past, we invariably find the inculcation of an exalted standard of morals.
Obviously, therefore, it cannot be dealt with other than cursorily in the few pages I am about to devote to it.
I shall conclude this by cursorily referring to two circumstances which have within a short time occurred on the Continent, and which seem to me to be of no small importance in regard to cholera questions.
I have dealtcursorily with primary education, which is even still in a deplorably backward state in Ireland.
We have already cursorily mentioned the Duchess de Châtillon: it is now indispensable, in order to thoroughly understand what is about to follow, to know something more of that celebrated personage.
It cannot be said that an injury is done to the person, who accidentally and cursorily hears a matter, and misconceives it: for being no way concerned, there is no obligation due to him.
The wide domain of science can be but cursorily touched upon.
Let us suppose that you are cursorily perusing a novel which has made a great sensation, and you come upon the following sentence: "Eighteen millions of years would level all in one huge, common, shapeless ruin.
