It is evident that without the ability to reinstate past experiences in our conscious life, such experiences could not serve as intelligent guides for our present conduct.
When a single attribute such as four-footedness is generalized to represent the class four-footed objects, the notion itself is relatively simple.
His must have been that calm, equable temperament not easily ruffled, which goes with the self-respecting nature.
The handsome face is full of refinement and shows the calm, equable temperament which made him a leader.
Everybody who has ever met Mr. Dillon knows that he has a singularly even and equable temper, except at the moments when he has been stung to passion by the sight of some bitter and intolerable wrong.
Equable and even cheery, he does not take a particularly joyous view of human existence.
And a patriotic sadness not unmingled with some personal concern, altogether unlike the unreasoning indignation against men and things nursed by Colonel Feraud, oppressed the equable spirits of Colonel D'Hubert.
In the afternoon, Lieutenant D'Hubert, very popular as a good comrade uniting great bravery with a frank and equable temper, had many visitors.
It is from these four states, whose areas are so largely taken up and whose land values are high, that the extreme West is seeking by reason of its cheap lands and equable climate, to draw its new population.
All these he could have on the plateau of Longwood, in a singularly equable climate, where the heat of the tropics is assuaged by the south-east trade wind, and plants of the sub-tropical and temperate zones alike flourish.
Colonel Muiron, which he once thought of) and settling down in that equableretreat to the congenial task of compiling his personal and military Memoirs.
Its dry and equableclimate renders Alicante a popular health-resort.
The climate is equable and delightful, the mean temperature for the year being 62 deg.
The dry and unusually equable temperature (mean for winter 50 deg.
It is poor even in its poetical elements, and is redeemed only by the finely solemn tone of its moral reflexions and the singular refinement and equable smoothness of its diction.
There, a sun which never sets sends feeble rays that maintain a lowequable temperature, rarely rising more than a few degrees above the freezing-point.
Thus the engine may move with great rapidity, while it imparts an equable slow motion to the corves ascending in the shaft.
An equable distribution of the ink is of no less importance to beautiful letter-press.
Though one stroke of the opposite cards be inadequate to produce this equable arrangement, yet many repeated strokes must infallibly accomplish the end in view, of laying the fibres parallel.
Long Room is designed to be regulated in the sunk story, by the fireman of the stove, who seems sufficiently careful to maintain an equable temperature amidst all the vicissitudes of our winter weather.
The contrivance consists in a travelling endless web, moved by power, which, by passing progressively from the colour vat over the diaphragm, brings forward continuously an equable supply of the coloured paste for the workman's block.
Indeed, when a water-run requires to be stopped by tubbing or cribbing, the circular is the only shape which presents a uniform resistance in every point to the equable circumambient pressure.
During their suspension within the racks, the hides should be shifted a little sideways, to prevent the formation of furrows by the bars, and to facilitate the equable action of the liquor.
After heating the bath till the alcohol boils and begins to distil, the heat ought to be lowered, that the solution may continue to proceed in an equable manner, with as little evaporation of spirit as possible.
Bertha, four years before, had been full of unrest; but now, her calm, equable disposition manifested itself in all its beauty.
He had much knowledge of men, and constantly lived in a certain equable atmosphere of his own; and the impulsive, changeable traits of Annette were therefore repugnant to him.
St. Augustine, one of the lowest in the list, showed a much less equable climate than that of Buffalo, being 94 to our 67.
A more equable and gradual transition from midsummer heat to midwinter cold cannot be shown by any locality on this continent.
Sleeping rooms should be well ventilated, and the air maintained at a equable temperature of as near 60° Fahr.
They are buried to the depth of about a foot, so that they receive the benefit of a tolerablyequable warmth.
D'Hubert, very popular as a good comrade uniting great bravery with a frank and equable temper, had many visitors.
Looking at these words he gave himself up to unpleasant reflection; a presentiment that he would never see the scenes of his childhood weighed down the equable spirits of Captain D'Hubert.
There is nothing which has a more abiding influence on the happiness of a family than the preservation of equable and cheerful temper and tones in the housekeeper.
You shall know more if you wish," said Cellini, his usual equable humour and good spirits now quite restored.
In general, he who contemplates nature should suspect whatever particularly takes and fixes his understanding, and should use so much the more caution to preserve it equable and unprejudiced.
However equable the climate, there must have been some appreciable difference in proceeding from north to south.
The flora of the Laramie is not a tropical but a temperate flora, showing no doubt that a much more equable climate prevailed in the more northern parts of America than at present.
Still we know that at the present time many species found in the equable climate of England will not live in Canada, though species to all appearance similar in structure are native here.
It is not properly a tropical flora, nor is it the flora of a cold region, but rather indicative of a moist and equable climate.
The minute structures of their stems are nearer to those of the conifers of the islands of the southern hemisphere than to that of those in our northern climes--a correlation, no doubt, to the equable climate of the period.
On both sides of the Atlantic there were somewhat varied and changing conditions of land and water, and a mild and equable climate, permitting the existence of a rich vegetation in high northern latitudes.
There was no aroma, no ethereal diffusion from its equable surface.
The equable temperature of the sea-water has an influence on coast towns.
Great extremes in the temperature followed, the advent of warmer weather and more equable days witnessing the disappearance of the disease.
Anything out of order always put him in an ill temper, and he wanted to discuss business matters in an equable way, and with as little to disturb him as possible.
Then the irritating bonhomie, the equable fluency of the masculine tones, the vexatious household dryness of the feminine ones, became maddening to ears that expected at least cordial warmth.
He affected a manner of equable unconcern fairly well.
