Traders too, intent on the developement of their business, were deeply concerned in all the questions that affected commerce, the securing of communications, or the opening of new roads for trade, or the organization of labour.
The developement of this great principle was the work of Sir Isaac Newton; and I will give you, in my next Letter, some particulars respecting the life and discoveries of this wonderful man.
But we pass, now, to the third order of stars, which present themselves much more obscurely to the gaze of the astronomer, and require large instruments for the full developement of their wonderful organization.
Huyghens, an eminent astronomer of Holland, who investigated the laws of centrifugal forces, was the first to infer that such must be the actual shape of the earth; but to Sir Isaac Newton we owe the full developement of this doctrine.
We contend that, instead of building ships of only equal force to those of our rivals, and thus waiting for the developement of their designs before we can venture on a single step, we should build beyond them in every respect.
Sovereigns no longer viewed with interested regard or with indifferent tolerance, as of old,[874] the growth of borough franchises and the developement of local governments.
But so far as our evidence yet goes, the developement of municipal government involved everywhere a struggle between the classes triumphant and the classes put under subjection.
Trade associations were laid hold of by the boroughs, brought under the discipline and authority of the public magistrates, and forced to take their due part in the developement of the municipal organisation.
Indeed it seems as though the characteristic movement of this time, a movement which naturally sprang out of the industrial developement of the Middle Ages, was the effort to enlarge the sphere of political activity.
Both had played their part in the history of human developement and passed out of the considerations of living men.
After all, we could not expect human developement to be constant.
The cooling process would continue; the perfect developement of life would end in death; the whole solar system, the whole universe itself, would one day be cold and lifeless as a burned-out firework.
In their anxiety to preserve their existence as an isolated and privileged order the clergy flung away a power which, had they retained it, would have ruinously hampered the healthy developement of the state.
The developement of his scheme is on the largest scale; he gathers together the whole knowledge of his time on every branch of science which it possessed, and as he passes them in review he suggests improvements in nearly all.
If the excellence of a statesman's work is to be measured by its duration and the faculty it has shown of adapting itself to the growth and developement of a nation, then the work of Edward rises to the highest standard of excellence.
In the first the historian and philologer can study the origin and developement of our national speech, in the last a schoolboy can enjoy the story of Troilus and Cressida or listen to the gay chat of the Canterbury Pilgrims.
On the other hand the rapid developement of their wealth made them every day more important as elements in the national taxation.
The smaller proprietors of the counties were growing fast both in wealth and numbers, while the burgess class in the cities were drawing fresh riches from the developement of trade which characterized this period.
This strange expedient has lasted till the present time, though its character has wholly changed with the developement of constitutional rule.
Steady and irresistible as was the growth of the royal power, it was far from seeming to the keenest political thinker of that day so natural and inevitable a developement of our history as it seems to some writers in our own.
But the effect of the struggle on the internal developement of Scotland was utterly ruinous.
From the golden dream of a new age wrought peaceably and purely by the slow progress of intelligence, the growth of letters, the developement of human virtue, the Reformer of Wittemberg turned away with horror.
It was in his treatment of man in the stage of human developement which he supposed to precede that of society that he came most roughly into conflict with the accepted beliefs.
Before the developement of the reasoning powers, by which the individual is enabled to classify the elements of his knowledge, there is no way of remembering these elements in connection with each other, except by this principle.
The first of these four general departments in Nature's educational process, is the developement and cultivation of the powers of her pupil's mind.
Let me now, before I proceed to other topics, hastily trace the progress of the developement of the Plot, as given to us through the channel of these same Papers.
Thus she lived many years, tyrannising over and feared by all around her, till an occasion presented itself for a further developementof her habitual, but secret feelings.
Nevertheless, the man in whose soul the poison works is gifted with so many lofty qualities, that we can follow the struggle and the developement with sympathy.
Both the well and ill trained are equally thin; but in the latter it is the leanness of debility and exhaustion; in the former, the removal of all unnecessary flesh and fat, and the highest power and developement of the muscles.
Having succeeded in their object, Dashall and his Cousin pursued their course homeward; and thus terminated another day spent in the developement of Real Life in the British Metropolis.
The difference between the old and new dispensations was ofdevelopement and progression, not of diversity or contrariety.
Both in the Protevangelium and in the Vossian Ignatius we see what is clearly a developement of the narrative in St. Matthew.
If the Vossian Epistles are genuine, then by showing the existence of such a developement at so early a date they will tend to throw back still further the composition of the Canonical Gospel.
Perhaps to Mr. Bowyer's excellent method of instruction may be attributed this early developement of his genius.
I have observed that all who have written, spoken, or thought on this subject, agree that the indispensable thing for Ireland is the application of capital to the developement of the resources of the country and the employment of its people.
It is a developement of what the foreign policy of this country ought to be.
It is therefore all-important that every aid be sought which may in any way contribute to the due developement of the mental powers; and no one will doubt the efficiency here of a good general education.
The catalogue will vary both in number and kind with different persons, according to the degree of force or developement in the overruling Principle.
Next to the developement of our moral nature, to have subordinated the senses to the mind is the highest triumph of the civilized state.
But to this it may be replied, that the Standard Form was never intended to represent the vicious or degraded, but man in his most perfect developement of mind, affections, and body.
From the gradual progress of the various arts of civilization, it would seem that only under the action of some great social law can man arrive at the full developement of his powers.
Edwards's analysis is more nice than Locke's, and his whole developement more true to the great principle of the system--necessary determination.
The promulgation of the law was a necessary developement of infinite wisdom; and the volition which transgresses it is a developement of the same nature.
And then if this be shown, the change is not really a change, but a new developement of the long chain of the necessary causes and volitions.
Light is most essential to the perfect and healthy developement of vegetable organization, the performance of the functions essential to the health of plants being dependent on its agency.
We judge of the perspicuity and order of a discourse, by knowing the progress in which the mind, by the developement of truth after truth, may be made at last to see the full meaning of the most complex proposition.
England only could have produced this poetess, and peculiar circumstances were necessary to the developement of her genius.
The friction of society may animate the man of talent into its exercise, but I am persuaded that solitude is essential to the perfectdevelopement of genius.
An acquaintance with them would almost convince any thinking man that there was something in Darwin’s theory of the developement of species.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "developement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
