That the sun rose on Easter-day, and danced with delight in honour of the resurrection of Christ, is evidently an ancient superstition engrafted on an orthodox Christian tenet.
Such a principle as that which the bill proposed, he believed, had been engrafted in the British service.
It is a niggardly sort of policy that I am sorry to see engrafted in the bill.
He had been brought up in the precincts of the temple, and superstition was engrafted in his mind.
The reader can imagine how the tale of this discovery fired the people of Spain, and engrafted in the minds of all, in that of old and young alike, a longing for new fields, for adventure in these foreign parts.
The same is also true of that happy or unfortunate succession of thoughts and affections which is developed into habit; and which is engrafted in our very souls, forming, as it were, an integral part of our nature.
Footnote 11: This line is another of the embellishments which Pope engrafted on the original.
The Catholic fathers who crossed the ocean to labor for the spiritual welfare of the natives, wiselyengrafted upon the mysteries of their own faith the legends and superstitions of the older belief.
Polytheism, and the sacrifice of human beings, which was later engrafted on this simple belief by other tribes, had no part in the early religion of the Toltecs.
The immediate results have been successful, but there is good reason to believe that when a ureter has been engrafted into the bladder, its walls become sclerosed by a chronic ureteritis, and its lumen is gradually stenosed.
Lutaud significantly points out that we know little of the subsequent fate of ureters which have been engrafted into the bladder.
The proximal end of this ureter was engrafted into the bladder through the wound which had been already sutured.
Polytheism then could not, in the very nature of things, be the original religion with Monotheism engrafted upon it.
This was in a large measure induced by the custom of using the old temples for Christian churches; the form of worship was in part guided by the form of the building, and even the old traditions were engrafted on the new religion.
The odium affixed to the supposed progeny of Cain, and the fablesengrafted on it, owe their origin to the theological opinions of the Middle Ages, which it is not worth while to trace to their authors.
The term was very early engraftedon the Saxon phraseology.
The ancient religious structures of the Lingaites still continued as recognized faith shrines, changed only by the emblems of the new religion which had been engrafted upon them.
Egypt, engrafted its own institutions in India, colonized Phoenicia, and by its maritime and commercial enterprise, introduced civilized conditions into every quarter of the globe.
After conquering the island they engrafted upon it the religion, laws, learning and culture of the mother country.
His pedantry accords better with didactic pomp than with illiterate and vulgar gabble; his learning engrafted on romantic tradition or classical history, looks like genius.
The second title he found to run, "Being Strictures on Certain Heresies concerning a Future State that have been Engrafted on the Sunchild's Teaching.
Have we not here a true heaven and a true hell, as compared with the efficiency of which these gross material ones so falsely engrafted on to the Sunchild's teaching are but as the flint implements of a prehistoric race?
It is really more than we can grant that the jurisdiction of the consilium ordinarium had been engraftedon the constitution, when the statute-book was full of laws to restrain, if not to abrogate it.
These courts had becomeengrafted on the constitution; and if they excited fear or jealousy, there was no one who dared to complain.
First, Malthus had attributed to the Poor Law itself effects which really sprang from certain bad arrangements that had been engrafted on the English system of relief, but were not essential to it--viz.
The debates which impeded the progress of this measure, plainly prove how deeply engrafted in the hearts of many of the higher classes were those rights which they were thus enforced to abjure.
The race, thus engrafted upon a Scottish stock, continued to acquire from time to time fresh honours.
The undesirableness of any other house in the same neighbourhood for Sir Walter was certainly much strengthened by one part, and a very material part of the scheme, which had been happily engrafted on the beginning.
The same refuge Arabia offered later to many Christians who were fleeing from the persecutions of Rome, and these also engrafted gradually, some of their rites and ceremonies and beliefs upon the people.
He is one of those who engrafted on the style of Maratta, a portion of the manner of Cortona.
James says, “Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness theengrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
