The firstformal agreement of this kind was arranged by the New England Confederation of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven, in 1643.
In 1838 the first formalorganization of the Underground Railroad was made, with Robert Purvis as President.
No formal bibliography of the subject, or of any phase of it, has been found; it has therefore been necessary to go through a large body of material, and to sift out references which bear upon the subject.
However, it is not essential that a formal analysis of every selection be made; indeed, as has been already implied, minute analysis may even defeat the end of these opening chapters.
The question of formal analysis may be left to the discretion of the teacher, who must determine how far it serves his purpose in each individual instance.
King, speaking coldly, and laying stress on the formal title which he had himself given Don John the right to use.
It had been announced that the King and Queen would not return after supper, and the magnificent gravity of the mostformal court in the world was a little relaxed when this was known.
But on the terrace they managed to talk without any such formal mode of address, and used no names at all for each other, until one day--but she would not think of that now.
Everything was most exactly ordered according to the unchangeable rules of the most formal court in Europe, not even excepting that of Rome.
That was hardly done when the outer door was opened wide, and a clear, formal voice was heard speaking outside.
The bishop held that it was difficult to decide with certainty on the point, as no formal record of the confirmation of the Commune is now preserved.
The English which men spoke then was no more stilted or formal to them than ours is to us.
At the time commonly assigued to these events, Dunstan was still in Flanders; yet he is generally credited with the atrocities by modern writers, even as if he had been proved guilty after a formal trial.
There is a reaction just now against the formal flower beds of tender plants, a patch of exotic color dotting otherwise irreproachable lawns, though the florist would like to keep such arrangements in fashion, for he is seldom a true artist.
Fifth and last, but perhaps most important of all, support the school in its effort to solve the problem of formal education, because the heavy burden rests there.
This is the complement to the routine of formal training in academic subjects, which are in themselves, normally un-useful.
But this can only supplement and point the way for the formal training which the institution (school) gives.
Five hours each day under incomplete authority can accomplish little else than formal instruction.
Probably no institution outside formal educational institutions is likely to have more vital influence on boys of the future than the Boy Scouts, already mentioned, a marvelous scheme to organize this play spirit.
The President consulted with the head of the State Department and decided that it was not in his province to give formal approval to such a transaction.
A few second and third-rate people had made a formal call, or left a card.
Mattie blushed and looked confused, then courtesied in a cold and formal manner.
You have been away a long time, haven't you," said the lady, receiving his hand in a cold and formal manner.
But instead of accepting it Mattie returned a cold, formal bow, and proceeded to the piano unaided.
But her manner was so cold and formalthat it not only disappointed but annoyed him.
Instead of an ardent, impressible, romantic and even demonstrative girl, bubbling over with warmth and vivacity, here she was, as cold and formal as a charity school matron of forty summers.
I have not been writing a formal treatise, but pouring out my heart to a beloved friend and yoke-fellow.
Do you not often find that it is after the more formal public preaching is finished, and the close personal work begins, that souls are reached?
I shall feel myself much more free in this way, than if I were writing a formal treatise.
Does it not often happen at our public preachings, that when the formaladdress is delivered, a hymn sung, and a word of prayer offered, all disperse without any attempt at individual work?
It may occasionally be introduced in a cursory, formal manner, and then dismissed.
President Felix Faure to proclaim the existence of a formal alliance between France and Russia.
The coutumes in this form became practically written law; henceforward their text could only be modified by a formal revision carried out according to the same procedure as the first version.
I only bowed, glad that the matter was so easily ended; and for nearly two months our relations have been of the most formal kind that can exist between employer and employed.
But all formal power of church government is at least part of the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
But the ecclesiastical offices of Christ's own officers for governing of the Church, now under the New Testament, were instituted by Christ before any formal visible Christian Church was gathered or constituted.
Whomsoever Jesus Christ hath made the immediate receptacle or first subject of proper formal power for governing of his Church, to them this power is conveyed by some authentic grant or commission.
And further, if there be no magistrates where there is no church, then the church is the formal constituting cause of magistrates.
But all formal power of church government is at least part of the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven is clear.
Now such honorable titles belong not unto mere formal professors, but only unto the real members of Christ: not unto those that have a name only; but to such as are so indeed and in truth.
Thus we see, that Jesus Christ our Mediator did not commit any proper formal ecclesiastical power for church government to the political magistrate, as such, as the Erastians conceive.
All formal power of church government was derived from Jesus Christ to his own proper church officers only.
Therefore no formal power of Church government is committed by Christ to the magistrate as a magistrate.
By proper formal power or authority spiritual, for church government, thus conceive.
We were really diverted by the formal parsimony with which the good woman had contrived to invent a dinner for four, out of what would have hardly have sufficed as a whet to an English farmer.
Close on the heels of the opera season followed the Charity Ball, the Horse Show, and the Fashion Show in rapid succession, with numberless receptions, formal parties, and nondescript social junketings interspersed.
Carmen's sixteenth birthday was past by some months; the gay season was at hand; and the day was speeding toward her which she had set for the girl's formal début.
Meantime, Don Mario sulked in his house; nor during the intervening year would he hold anything more than the most formal intercourse with the priest.
Invitations to the number of three hundred had been issued to the élite of New York, announcing the formal opening of the newly finished, magnificent Ames dwelling.
But, though the Beaubien had never sought the entrée to formal society, preferring to hold her own court, at which no women attended, she exercised a certain control over it through her influence upon the man Ames.
Then Ames had smiled his own gratification, and arranged that the new member should attend the formal opening of the great Ames palace later in the year.
The officers who had come to make a formal welcome fell back and let the unprepared public uproar have way.
After the serenade and General Pershing's little speech of thanks the band, with most of the crowd following, marched over to des Invalides, the appointed place for the formal ceremony.
There were half a dozen high officers from the French Army, making both formal and informal welcomes, and there were more busy majors and captains and more interpreters than you could count in half a day's time.
I shall be pleased to welcome any friend of yours," replied the elder man in a formal way, and then rose to leave the room.
I fear you will feel dull here, Mr. Montrose," said Enistor, formal and cold.
He stumbled through the formal document to the end, reading at the last: "This is a present from Ben to his beloved wife, Viney.
But he could not but feel a thrill at the bit of comedy which is on the edge of every tragedy, as he thought of Mammy Peggy and her formal reception.
When he read her cold formal note, Bartley knew that he had offended her, and the thought burned him like fire.
Unless our formal gardening is of some inexpensive sort our modest dwelling-houses give us an anticlimax, and there is no inexpensive sort of formal gardening.
Our ordinary American life is also too near nature for the formal garden to come in between.
A formal garden without a greenhouse or two--or three--is a glorious army on a war footing, but without a base of supplies.
The competing gardens being kept wholly without hired labor, of course our constant advice to all contestants is to shun formal gardening.
The formal principle of these maxims is: "So act as if thy maxim were to serve likewise as the universal law (of all rational beings).
Practical principles are formal when they abstract from all subjective ends; they are material when they assume these, and therefore particular springs of action.
On the hypothesis, however, that the will of an intelligence is free, its autonomy, as the essential formal condition of its determination, is a necessary consequence.
When the latter is merely formal it is logic; if it is restricted to definite objects of the understanding it is metaphysic.
At nine o'clock the next morning General Slocum, at the head of a strong reconnoitering column, rode into Atlanta, and the mayor made a formal surrender of the place.
When the Republican nominating convention inserted the gold and silver plank in its platform, Senator Teller, of Colorado, led thirty-two delegates in theirformal withdrawal from the convention.
On July 16th the agreement, with the formal approval of the Madrid and Washington governments, was signed in duplicate by the commissioners, each side retaining a copy.
On August 9th Spain's formalreply was presented by M.
A salute of one hundred guns was fired on the Executive Building grounds at Honolulu, and the formal transfer, August 12th, was attended with appropriate ceremonies.
So it is best to start with a formal agreement; namely, that you are to pay them two hundred and fifty pounds a year, as long as you and they find it pleasant to live together.
Those who discussed it at all gave most of their attention to its formal structure, its style, and especially the conceit it contained.
These reforms were connected chiefly, if not entirely, with the external or formal side of poetry.
Balzac introduced into France the fine critical sense of the Italians; Chapelain introduced their formal rules, and imposed the three unities on French tragedy.
Yet the very position of the intricate problem which I had before me seemed to forbid all hope of discovering anything whatsoever without a formal inquiry.
Lady Stretton looked always stiff andformal in her rich satins.
To those who could only judge him from his controversial literature, or from a formal business meeting, he often appeared hard and unsympathetic, but never to those who saw beneath the surface.
Huxley suggested a possible bar in his precarious health; but subject to this possibility, if the Vice-Chancellor did not regard it as a complete disability, was willing to accept a formal invitation.
No formal invitation for a special day was needed.
This turned out to be a proposal for the formal recognition of distinguished services in Science, Letters, and Art by the institution of some sort of order analogous to the Pour le Merite.
But there was nothing formalabout our relations with John Sleeper Clark and the Jefferson family.
We gave many jolly parties, and on account of Richard's quickly acquired popularity were constantly being invited to dinners, dances, and less formal but most amusing Bohemian supper-parties.
Miss Terry was a much less formal and forbidding guest, rushing into the house like a whirlwind and filling the place with the sunshine and happiness that seemed to fairly exude from her beautiful magnetic presence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "formal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
