The barometric exactitude of his forecasts was quite famous, and added to the confidence and respect he inspired.
He remembered with equal exactitude the ideas he had derived from reading, and those which had occurred to him in the course of meditation or conversation.
Casanova's allusions to well-known people, showing the perfect exactitudeof all but six or seven, and out of these six or seven inexactitudes ascribing only a single one to the author's intention.
Then the wild exactitude of this action took hold of the mad lord's brain like fire.
In the same way, every other color, or force of color, is a fixed thing, not dependent on sensation, but numerically representable with as much exactitude as a degree of heat by a thermometer.
Had you paid a proper attention to these effects of rain, you would have been amazed by the exactitude with which they are painted by Poussin.
The artist who depicted these animals with such faithful exactitude evidently lived amongst them.
Their talk is not reported anywhere: nor is it said with exactitude how far, whether wholly now, or only in part now, Belleisle expounded his sublime ideas to Friedrich; or what precise reception they got.
These various duties were executed with a wonderful exactitude and regularity, almost mechanical; indeed, throughout Nankin and every part of Ti-pingdom I have always found a similar state of methodical organization.
In the villages around San-li-jow I particularly noticed the exactitude with which the Ti-ping soldiers paid the country people for everything they required.
Herbert’s thoughts were often carried back to the past, remembering with the minutest exactitude every tone, every word of their sweet converse.
There is no upholder of impersonality but experiences a feeling of fatigue for a work of the utmost exactitude in the reproduction of reality in its empirical sequence, or of industrious and apathetic combination of images.
But historical criticism tends precisely to circumscribe vain imaginings and to establish with exactitude the point of view from which we must look.
These considerable results can evidently be invoked as a posteriori proofs of the exactitude of the experimental laws of osmosis.
The Germans were making a target of the Town Hall and dropping their shells with dreadful exactitude on either side of it.
I cannot absolutely vouch to you that there is a God,--but I am positive there is a hidden process of mathematics going on in the universe which sums up our slightest human affairs with an exactitude which at the least is amazing.
The scriptural passages bearing on the question, more particularly those appealed to by Luther in his “Assertio,” are examined with philological exactitude and with sobriety.
They indicate a mentality singularly deficient in exactitude and clearness.
Her Majesty has expressed herself with infinite exactitude and with condescending propriety,' said the chief minister.
He has been training himself in reference to something precise; and the moment he ventures beyond it, the very exactitude of his discipline limits his worth.
The reason why we do not naturally have this daring exactitude is probably twofold.
If he is slovenly in his ninety-nine cases of talking, he can seldom pull himself up to strength and exactitude in the hundredth case of writing.
Later on, when it was time for her to be Confirmed, she learned her Catechism word for word, and with so fervent an ardour that she astonished everyone by the exactitude of her memory.
Here the laws are made by the people, and it is understood for the people, and hence every good citizen should feel a personal interest in the rectitude and exactitudeof their administration.
Besides, physiology has no reason to pride itself upon the peculiar exactitude of its methods and results.
They demand absolute exactitude and cannot understand that such a thing is impossible.
The presence of salts of phosphoric acid has not yet been determined with exactitude for all rivers, but the presence of nitrates has been proved with certainty in almost all kinds of well-investigated river water.
This method of mutual and reciprocal correction strengthens the practical data of the exact sciences, whose conclusions require the greatest possible exactitude and variety of corrections.
Such experiments on the respiration of animals have been also made with great exactitude with large animals, such as men, bulls, sheep, &c.
Especially did those writers who are commonly counted Dickens's superiors in art and exactitude and closeness to connected reality.
But I do not think that his mere abstract acuteness and rapidity of thought were ever exercised with such startling exactitude as they are in this place in Martin Chuzzlewit.
It is better employed only when we wish to give to an expression more exactitude as regards the state of the subject at the time of the principal action than is conveyed by the simple form (see pars.
Their use, therefore, is confined to givingexactitude to the time of an action or to an idea (see par.
The compound forms of the Imperative in the active voice are very rarely used, but they are occasionally useful to give exactitude to an expression.
The precise ratio of thought accompanied by exactitude of emotion for the given idea is a matter of serious consideration with the modern artists of today.
It is the only way for an artist to produce plastic exactitude between two planes of sensation or thought.
All this has since been worked out with greater exactitude by the later theorists in modernism.
