The fair conclusion from his deliverances during these early years is that he was at first much more of a Liberal than a Tory, yet with ideas distinctively his own which made him appear in a manner independent of both parties.
The one thing you shall vainly ask for in the chief city of America is a distinctively American community.
The Atlantic Monthly, which was distinctively literary, was distinctively a New England magazine, though from the first it had been characterized by what was more national, what was more universal, in the New England temperament.
In fact I had heard things almost as desperately cynical in other newspaper offices before that, and I could not see what was so distinctively Bohemian in these 'anime prave', these souls so baleful by their own showing.
It was distinctively a literary race, and in the actual generation it has given proofs of its continued literary vitality in the romance of 'Espiritu Santo' by the youngest daughter of the Dana I knew.
The first notice would suit the Essenes very well, though the practice mentioned was not so distinctively Essene as to afford any safe ground for this hypothesis.
Common sense has long recognized this, but until recently no systematic attempt has been made to isolate, describe, and explain the distinctively human factors in the life either of the individual or of society.
But there is in all distinctively human activities a conventional, one might almost say a contractual, element which is absent in action of other animals.
This distinctively human tradition presupposes trains of ideas in past generations, which so mold the environment of a new generation that in apprehending and adapting itself to this environment it must re-think the old trains of thought.
I have used it here to distinguish the sort of behavior which may be regarded as distinctively and exclusively human, namely, that which is self-conscious and personal.
Blushing and laughter are peculiarly significant, because these forms of emotional response are distinctively human.
They came to have thus a more distinctively symbolic and formal character.
Less distinctively national than Eugene Oniegin, its psychological problem is stronger, its dramatic appeal more direct; consequently it would have a greater chance of success.
Rimsky-Korsakov, therefore, stands out in the history of Russian opera as one of the most distinguished and distinctively racial composers of that circle to whom we owe the inauguration of the national school of music in Russia.
True, others have sung of the exaltation and the immortality of love, and few have been those who have found it, but nowhere has the distinctively human side been touched with such reverence as in Browning.
After this stage has been reached there continues an evolution which is distinctively spiritual, a tendency to God.
Second, there was a tendency, due to the influence of some clergymen active in the order, to give a distinctively Christian tinge to Masonry, first in their interpretations of its symbols, and later to the ritual itself.
In the Garden City Gazette Mr. Brock undertook the establishment of a distinctively local and social department, which Mr. Schick carried on into the Watchman.
Miller, John and James Fudge, and John and Garrett Long, may be regarded as most distinctively the pioneers in the stock business, proceeding on within a few years to the usual evolution into farming and other branches of growing communities.
William Henry Hedges Fouts, who is engaged in the general practice of law in Dayton, comes from an ancestry which in its lineal and collateral branches has been distinctively American for many generations.
The German God is an out-of-doors God and is distinctively associated with the thought of war.
The German emotions are distinctively expressed by thumpings in some form.
The craze for excitement and for unfeminine publicity of life has possessed her, to the temporary exclusion of many of the sweeter and more modest qualities which were once distinctively her own.
There was no distinctively Highland settlement in South Carolina, although there was quite an influx of emigrants of this class into the province.
Women have talked freely since creation, but it remains true that a heavy, strong lower jaw is a distinctively masculine characteristic.
I do not include in it the works of writers either born in England or completely English in training, method, and tradition, showing nothing distinctively American in their writings except the incidental subject.
The reader of to-day who has the curiosity to inquire into the correctness of this opinion will, if he is familiar with the romances of the eighteenth century, find little originality in Brown's stories, and nothing distinctively American.
But they never represented anything distinctively American, and their influence upon American literature is scarcely discernible.
The author has fortunately been able to secure from Susan Coolidge a number of receipts of New England dishes; also a few distinctively Southern dishes from an equally experienced Southern housekeeper.
The eleventh census was taken under a law almost identical with that of the tenth, and extended through twenty-five large volumes, presenting a work almost as encyclopaedic, but much more distinctively statistical.
The simple oriental forms were replaced by distinctively European shapes with architectural mouldings, handles and feet.
Morality is not distinctively Christian, any more than it is Mohammedan.
When I say that Christianity is a blunder, I mean all those things distinctively Christian are blunders.
All around was noonday quiet, and the sober disciplined landscape which the traveller's memory is apt to evoke as distinctively French.
The distinctively Jewish ideas or institutions which are prominent in Matthew are omitted or else explained; hence there is nothing which would prove unintelligible to a Greek.
Mark, the shortest and more distinctively narrative Gospel, is clearly the oldest of the four.
He whose ideals, teachings, and methods were in closest harmony with those of the Hebrew prophets, naturally begat, through his immediate followers, a group of distinctively prophetic writings.
While their teaching was distinctively ethical and religious, it was also very practical and utilitarian.
Sidenote: The historical method of approach] With this general introduction, many students and classes will find it profitable to approach the Old and New Testaments from the distinctively historical point of view.
The first is the fact that many dramatic monologues use distinctively lyric measures.
Holding in mind these general characteristics of the creative imagination, as traced by Ribot, let us now test our conception of the distinctively artistic imagination.
From what has been said it will be evident that the book is not one of those designed to affect the reader mainly through a scrupulous conscience, or indeed distinctively through conscience at all.
Can they consequently be treated distinctively as the truth-builders?
