The industry of the country will necessarily fall with the removal of the capital which supported it, and the ruin of trade and manufactures will follow the declension of agriculture.
Had the state of the country been different, had rents been gradually falling in consequence of the declension of cultivation, the landlords would almost all have lost this difference.
Towards the declension of the Roman republic, the allies of Rome, who had borne the principal burden of defending the state and extending the empire, demanded to be admitted to all the privileges of Roman citizens.
Portugal, however, is but a very small part of Europe, and the declension of Spain is not, perhaps, so great as is commonly imagined.
But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension of the society.
Those subsequent formularies represent the different degrees of declension which, according to this system, correspond to the different degrees in which this natural distribution of things is violated.
Should there be any general failure or declension in any of these things, the produce of the different taxes might no longer be sufficient to pay him the annuity or interest which is due to him.
He might have imputed to it, likewise, the declension of agriculture, it being imposed not only upon manufactures, but upon the rude produce of the land.
There is no fixt rule for the declension of proper names in Gothic (Gr.
The Gothic =a=-declension contains only masculins and neuters.
The Gothic =a=-declension corresponds to the second or o-declension in Greek and Latin (Gr.
The declension of these masculins is identical with that of the masculin =i=-stems (100) in the hole sg.
Hence declension begins with the formation of the plural number.
The complicated Sanskrit system is more and more superseded by the simple uniformity of the declension of a-bases.
The ground principles of declension in all tertiary languages are the same, but as each employs different postpositions the systems of declensionvary considerably.
As might be expected, it suffered somewhat from the declension of Lutheranism; but it stood manfully up to the crisis, and met the issues with an heroic spirit.
The purposes of declension are answered by particles and prepositions.
It is refreshing to find a person who, in reference to this language, knows the difference between the conjugation of a verb and the declension of a noun.
The languages of New Zealand, Tonga, and Malay have no declension of nouns, nor conjugation of verbs.
We are to owe henceforward our power to epidemical diseases, our wealth to the declension of our commerce, and our security to riot and to tumult.
We shall find that they have increased by the declension of the house of Austria, which treaties and our interest engage us to support.
I am very much afraid that we have greatly precipitated its declension and ruin by our contagion; and that we have sold it opinions and our arts at a very dear rate.
Nor does there appear to be anydeclension of the separate pronoun, corresponding to whose, and whom.
The languages of New Zealand, Tonga and Malay, have no declension of nouns, nor conjugation of verbs.
Compare Ovid's frequent use of the metrically convenient ablative in -e of third-declension adjectives.
Pronouns concern ourselves so much, that we cannot altogether pass over them; though a hint or two with regard to the mode of learning their declension is all that we can here afford to give.
We shall find Cyprian to be a character who partook indeed of the declension which we have noticed and lamented; but who was still far superior, I apprehend, in real simplicity and piety to the Christians of the East.
The two-case declension remained theoretically in use in Provençal literature through the 14th century; but in texts later than the 12th, cases are often confused.
The declensionof ĭlle was considerably altered in Vulgar Latin.
To this declension belong all neuter nouns which have their nominative case singular and plural alike.
The weak declension of adjectives agrees exactly with that of the nouns.
The endings of the strongdeclension are partly nominal and partly pronominal.
To this declension belong all feminine nouns which form their plural in {-e} and have umlaut in the stem-vowel.
To this declension belong all masculine nouns which form their plural in {-e} and with umlaut of the stem-vowel.
Among barbarians it is customary to surfeit a victim destined to become a sacrifice.
The last indication of religious declension that we shall now speak of is a careless indifference to the danger arising from temptation.
A third indication of declension in the Christian life is a devotion to the world.
A second sign of spiritual declension is indifference to the usual means of grace.
A fourth sign of a state of declension in spirituality is an unwillingness to receive Christian counsel or reproof.
All the Cases of Adjectives of the Second Declension are formed according to the general rules for nouns of the second declension; that is, Monosyllables add e for the gen.
The first Declension comprehends those nouns whereof the characteristic vowel is broad; the second Declension comprehends those nouns whereof the characteristic vowel is small.
It has been already shown how bi be, is used as an Auxiliary in the declension of all verbs.
And this because there all that appertained to the departed was guarded with the most jealous care.
The appearance of this script in that island is one of the problems of graphiology.
Little by little he was demonstrating, by his slow declension from it, the wonder of the standard of efficiency maintained by the normal human being.
And Janet delicately confirmed his assumption with a slight declension of her waving hat.
The new industrial order offered both the practical incentive and the theoretical justification for institutional declension from humane to primitive standards.
Here is a major cause for the declension of the influence of Protestant church services.
We have tried thus to sketch that declension into paganism on the part of much of the present world, of which we spoke earlier in the chapter.
