As we shall have occasion to observe,[783] other factors besides the a priori must be reckoned among the conditions of experience; and to both types of conditions Kant applies the epithet transcendental.
The epithet employed is characteristic of the rather depreciatory attitude which Kant invariably adopts in speaking of Berkeley.
All the Reformed bodies of the Continent substantially regarded themselves as coming under that designation, which might have been applied and assumed with equal propriety as the epithet “protestants.
The happyepithet was soon conveyed to the classical ear of the modern Grecian: it was a wasp in it!
Had the irascible Middleton broken his violin about the head of the learned Grecian, and thus terminated the quarrel, the epithet had then cost Bentley's honour much less than it afterwards did.
The literary character of Prynne is described by the happy epithet which Anthony Wood applies to him, "Voluminous Prynne.
Mason applies the epithet of "Mitred Dullness" to him: but although he was at length reduced to railing and to menaces, and finally mortified into silence, this epithet does not suit so hardy and so active an adventurer.
But it is uncertain whether this fellow had really so dismal a countenance; for the epithet was borrowed from his profession, being the son of an undertaker!
He has applied to himself the epithet "impenetrable," which was probably in the mind of Johnson when he noticed his "impenetrable impudence.
Aldrich (he does not deserve the epithet in its most friendly sense) no doubt at their head, smoked and punned plentifully on this occasion.
On the other hand the term prajapati (lord of creatures), which in the Rigveda occurs as an epithet of the sun, is also once in the Atharvaveda applied jointly to Indra and Agni.
Barnabee rarely visits a town or village without some notice of an excellent inn or a charming hostess, but he hardly deserves theepithet "drunken.
In a word, Mary seems to have imbibed the cold disposition and apathy of her husband; and to have centered all her ambition in deserving the epithet of an humble and obedient wife.
These were distinguished by the epithet of nonjurors: but their number bore a very small proportion to that of others, who took them with such reservations and distinctions as redounded very little to the honour of their integrity.
He was justly compared to Fabius Maximus, distinguished by the epithet of Cunctator.
This coalition was dignified with the epithet of "The Broad Bottom," as if it had been established on a true constitutional foundation, comprehending individuals of every class, without distinction of party.
That was what really embroiled me with Jacotot, the physical portrait I drew of him; all the good I was able to say of him, which has immortalised him, has not effaced from his memory the unhappy epithet I applied to his face.
In explanation of this epithet we every where find traditions concerning wolves.
The epithet 'moqueuse' was applied to her; and there is no epithet less favourably received in the world.
The epithet shaggy is highly appropriate, as Leland (Itin.
Every epithet is a lifelike picture; not a word could be changed without destroying the tone of the whole.
An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art; anepithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature.
Johnson appears to have had in mind the original meaning of buxom in his comment on this passage: "His epithet buxom health is not elegant; he seems not to understand the word.
Samuel Pepys gives us several accounts of his entertainments, varying, with a nice sense of discrimination, the epithet with which he labels his dinners.
Seneca dwells upon the stately and dignified movement of the Latin period, and uses for Cicero the happy epithet of gradarius.
Laureate letters" in old times meant the despatches announcing a victory; and the epithet was given, even officially (e.
Although an Arab, he is reproached with dressing and living like a Turk; and to the epithet Shamy (Syrian) the idea is attached of a heavy, untutored clown.
His father was from Asia Minor, and belonged to the corps of Janissaries (Odjak), whence his son takes the epithet of Odjakly.
What peculiar cause of mirth the town of Wakefield hath above others, Fuller certainly confesses he cannot tell, unless that it may be entitled to that epithet from its cheapness, and the plenty of good cheer.
The credulity of the vulgar bestowed that epithet upon him, from an opinion that he communicated his wishes to the animal by means of a whisper; and the singularity of his method gave some color to the superstitious belief.
Frederic was not so blinded as not to perceive the extent of his dangers; and his successful resistance to the armies which his own offensive war had raised up against him, has given him his claims to the epithet of Great.
Fitzurse, stung by the foul epithet which Becket had thrown at him, swept his sword over him and dashed off his cap.
But, let us wait; maybe we shall have no occasion to repeat the epithet just applied to her name.
The wife looked up at the husband in blank surprise at so unusual an epithet as "charming" coming from his lips, and applied to her.
