The life of these abbeys was full of rich imaginative and religious power; it abounded in urbanity and ripe culture of a somewhat selfish and exclusive type.
When ballads were intended for the exclusive use of the ordinary ballad-buyers they were printed in black letter, a type that was retained for this purpose for more than a century after it had gone out of use for other purposes.
The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.
Italian Council, finally assumed it as the exclusive title of the bishops of Rome.
Not only is the holy fathers temporal power a usurpation, but so is also his exclusive claim to the use of the title of pope.
Disputes respecting property arising between the citizens of Rome and these foreign mission-houses of the church, the popes claimed the exclusive right to arbitrate between them.
France, it was stipulated that the union should be consummated, on condition that the heirs which should issue should be subject to the exclusive control of their mother until they were thirteen years of age.
A sincere and voluntary renunciation of all exclusive privileges on the part of patrician families.
The Pope's legate most strenuously urged some of the most arrogant and exclusive assumptions of the papal church.
Yet he had none of its narrow and exclusive spirit, and was a liberal, intelligent man, tolerant of the heathen, and acquainted with Greek.
It introduced into the western world an element which was wanting to it, absolute and exclusive Faith--this idea, that there is but one good and true religion.
And why should pure religion, which cannot be deemed the exclusive attribute of any one sect or church, encumber itself with the inconveniences of a position the advantages of which are denied it?
The true Greek tribes were then, as now, veryexclusive in their notions, absorbed in the memory of their past; and paid little heed to the new doctrine.
The riches of the temple were for a long time the exclusive appanage of a limited number of nobles.
Those desiring exclusive territory should apply at once, accompanying their application with letter of recommendation from some postmaster or minister.
What has been said in this chapter shows the truth of what we said in the twenty-fourth chapter, upon the connection of the different criteria, and the necessity of not confining one's self to an exclusive philosophy.
So far as certainty is concerned, we must bear in mind this last observation: to become excessively exclusive is to place one's self on the brink of error.
This remark is important, for it indicates the radical vice of all exclusive philosophy.
That superiority, or rather that exclusive privilege, conceded by Condillac and other philosophers to touch, not only has no foundation, as we have just seen, but seems to be in contradiction to the very nature of this sense.
It seems, however, that this doctrine of St. Thomas met with opposition, from some persons who could not conceive how the soul of brutes could be inextensive, as they regarded this as the exclusive property of the intellectual soul.
Which of the three, I wondered, was a member of that most exclusive and old-fashioned institution?
It appears that he had captured me with his own hand, and he claimed me as his exclusive property.
Now it was by virtue of keeping the peace that their exclusive rights over the encroached-upon territory had been conceded.
The conception of a sacred nation controlled the whole succeeding Jewish development; if it was narrow in its exclusive regard for Israel, its intensity saved the Jewish religion to the world.
Such practical importance as the rule of relevancy possesses consists, not in what it includes, but in what it excludes, and for that reason it seems better to state the rule in a negative or exclusive form.
But as to personal property, the jurisdiction of the courts Christian became exclusive in England.
It has original and exclusive cognizance of causes of deposition of bishops (op.
After the 14th century, the latter had exclusive jurisdiction (Van Espen, op.
These were ofexclusive royal jurisdiction as against both spiritual courts and the courts of feudal lords.
Concerning "felonious" clerks the great questions discussed were whether the courts Christian had exclusive jurisdiction or the king's court, or whether there was a concurrent jurisdiction.
Of all the 'nipoti,' Cardinal Pietro Riario enjoyed at first the chief and almost exclusive favour of Sixtus.
But that an age existed which idolized the ancient world and its products with an exclusive devotion was not the fault of individuals.
We must not be misled by his exclusive references to 'poesie,' as closer observation shows that he means thereby the whole mental activity of the poet-scholars.
As early as 1824 we find a letter to Plato, remarkable in its mature gravity for a youth of twenty-one, questioning the exclusive claim of the Christian Revelation: “Of this Revelation I am the ardent friend.
But I confess it has not for me the same exclusive and extraordinary claims it has for many.
This mediaeval polyphonic music, although the most complete example in art of the perfect adaptation of means to a particular end, could not long maintain its exclusive prestige.
So out of the antique mnemonic signs, which had done useful service during the exclusive regime of the unison chant, there was gradually developed a system of square-headed notes, together with a staff of lines and spaces.
The nature of the change of motive in modern church music, which broke the exclusive domination of the chorus by the introduction of solo singing, has been set forth in the chapter on the later mass.
It appeared that Max occupied exclusive quarters especially designed for him in the theatre building itself: an amiable idiosyncrasy not wholly lacking in advertising value, if one chose to consider it in that light.
At least such was the plausible excuse he advanced for depriving himself of my exclusive society.
A second special character of commercial imagination is the exclusive employment of schematic representations.
His statement is this,--"There is no evidence that any animal performs an action for the exclusive good of another.
Investigation has strengthened the evidence of disadvantage arising from fertilization by exclusive dependence on self-produced pollen.
Only by separating the two sources of cognition, related to one another as form to content, do we get the mutually exclusiveand separately incomprehensible conceptions of freedom and inevitability.
A feeling stronger than friendship sprang up between them; an exclusive feeling of life being possible only in each other's presence.
Upon the platform, Christian disputants frequently claim it, and resent the exclusive assumption of it by others.
The owners of these were to have, during ten years, the exclusive privilege of brewing for trading purposes.
This was the formation of a company of Canadians to secure the exclusive privilege of trading.
The "scientific" teachers, at one extreme, have paid too exclusive attention to the mechanics of the voice.
The shortcoming of the Italian school of singing, as of composition, has been tooexclusive devotion to sensuous beauty of tone as an end in itself.
